SBP Hiring for Volunteer Coordinator at Houston, Texas Full Time

Are you passionate about addressing social justice and sustainability? If so, our service-minded AmeriCorps team needs your help!

Climate change is here, increasing the size and frequency of natural disasters and displacing over 15 million people each year. Hurricanes like Ida, Harvey, Maria, and Katrina disproportionately affect under resourced communities, whose road to recovery often takes years. SBP is dedicated to shrinking the time between disaster and recovery, work that includes helping individual homeowners and communities rebuild after a disaster.

As a Volunteer Coordinator, you will design and facilitate an extraordinary volunteer experience that empowers individuals to join SBP in our mission to shrink the time between disaster and recovery. Imperative to SBP’s sustainability, Volunteer Coordinators bolster long-standing relationships with our volunteer network while creatively identifying new ways to recruit and promote external engagement with the organization. 

Volunteer Coordinators handle all volunteer logistics, support volunteer fundraising efforts that directly support the AmeriCorps project, speak with energy to large groups of volunteers about the work we are doing before and after their volunteer build, communicate with multiple departments to ensure volunteers have a quality experience, and spread the word about local outreach events. Volunteer Coordinators must be comfortable expressing thanks, talking about the state of the recovery, and articulating the ongoing need for support. Volunteer Coordinators serve as the point of contact for multiple volunteer groups that register to volunteer anywhere from a day to a year in advance, answering all questions, relaying all updates, and documenting logistics.

Essential Functions of Position:

• Respond to volunteer requests, questions, or general inquiries via email and phone in a timely fashion
• Coordinate all trip logistics for volunteers. This includes being the point of contact for multiple volunteer groups in any given week: both volunteers currently on site and those registering for weeks or months in advance.
• Accurately document all communications and logistics.
• Use of volunteer management software including Salesforce, Formstack, Google spreadsheets, and Classy.
• Update and track volunteer information on Google documents used by multiple departments
• Assess availability of volunteer work and schedule volunteer groups
• Give orientations to as many as 150 volunteers at a time
• Give debriefings at the end of each volunteer experience
• Encourage groups to stay engaged with SBP by returning to volunteer or spreading the work
• Clearly communicate the enduring needs of our clients
• Spend no more than 10% of the AmeriCorps service term engaging volunteers in fundraising efforts that support the fundraising goals of the AmeriCorps project.
• Maintain updated records and routinely track volunteer information, including volunteer numbers, contributions and feedback.
• Keep volunteers informed about upcoming SBP events
• Maintain an energetic and positive attitude with volunteers and colleagues
• Build partnerships with local businesses and community organizations to support fundraising efforts that support the goals of the AmeriCorps project.
• Participate in outreach and planning for volunteer special events that support the goals of the AmeriCorps project.
• Communicate with entire SBP team about the role, function and needs of volunteers

Benefits:

• Monthly stipend of $2,100
• Free individual Cigna health insurance
• A housing stipend of $175/month for AmeriCorps alumni
• Relocation reimbursement of up to $500 for eligible members
• Segal Education Award of $6,495 (Can be used as tuition assistance and/or for repaying qualified student loans and is awarded upon successful completion of a 10-month term of service)
• AmeriCorps Childcare Benefits Program
• Student loan forbearance for qualified loans
• Free Mental Health, Financial, and Legal support through the Member Assistance Program

*COVID-19 Safety Statement: SBP requires COVID-19 vaccinations for all team members. We have an obligation to ensure that no team member poses a direct threat to the health or safety of our clients, themselves, or others in the workplace. Any applicant or member who is unvaccinated due to a medical
disability or a sincerely held religious belief may be entitled to a vaccine exemption and reasonable accommodations.