Remote Position
[Remote] Volunteer Recruiting Intern — Recruiting & Volunteer Operations Team
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Animal Cause, Inc. is seeking a Volunteer Recruiting Intern to help develop and operate its volunteer-recruitment pipeline. The intern will support recruiting, screening, onboarding, and retention processes as part of a shared team at a nonprofit animal welfare organization.
Responsibilities
- Developing and improving volunteer opportunity descriptions
- Maintaining recruiting pipelines
- Posting and refreshing volunteer opportunities
- Researching appropriate volunteer and internship recruiting platforms
- Identifying colleges, universities, corporations, and community organizations for outreach
- Conducting email and telephone outreach
- Screening applications using established criteria
- Conducting structured candidate interviews
- Documenting candidate information
- Recommending candidates for advancement
- Supporting volunteer onboarding
- Maintaining candidate and volunteer records
- Monitoring onboarding completion
- Supporting volunteer retention initiatives
- Identifying recruiting bottlenecks
- Evaluating recruiting results
- Developing outreach strategies
- Creating recruiting materials
- Researching volunteer-management practices
- Supporting the development of recruiting systems and procedures
- Helping maintain a consistent candidate experience
- Identifying ways to reduce volunteer turnover
- Supporting other recruiting-team projects as assigned
Skills
- College students enrolled in degree programs that require volunteer, service-learning, internship, practicum, or related experiential hours
- Students who need qualifying experience or service hours as part of their academic program
- The internship is not designed to teach you an entirely new profession from scratch. We are looking for students who can apply what they are already learning
- Previous recruiting, HR, volunteer-management, nonprofit, communications, or outreach experience is helpful but is not necessarily required when the student's academic program provides relevant preparation
- Reliable communication
- Completion of assigned work
- Respect for deadlines
- Ability to follow established procedures
- Willingness to document work
- Willingness to receive feedback
- Willingness to revise work
- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to operate remotely without constant supervision
- Respect for organizational confidentiality
- Consistent weekly participation
- Commitment to TAC's Christian values
- Interest in animal welfare and nonprofit work
- Enrollment in a relevant college/university degree program
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to communicate professionally
- Organizational ability
- Willingness to learn TAC's systems
- Ability to follow established procedures
- Ability to accept constructive feedback
- Reliability
- Professional judgment
- Respect for confidentiality
- Ability to participate in a virtual team environment
- Recruiting, HR, communications, outreach, nonprofit, leadership, or volunteer-management experience is beneficial
Benefits
- Remote work.
- TAC will work with your university to provide required documentation and verification, subject to your school's requirements.
- A successful 30-day pilot may lead to continued participation, increased responsibility, or consideration for a leadership role within the recruiting function.
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