Creating a Volunteer Opportunity

Opportunities are created in VS as either date-specific or ongoing activities. As their names imply, date-specific opportunities are tied to one or more specific dates and expire when their dates have elapsed, whereas an ongoing opportunity is a task for which you need volunteer assistance on a continual basis that remains posted in VS until you disable or delete it.

 

The process for creating opportunities is essentially the same for both types of opportunities, with the exception of date-specific opportunities requiring you to select one or more dates on which the opportunity will be offered. You can change a date-specific opportunity to an ongoing one and vice versa later on, if necessary.

 

To create an opportunity:

  1. Log in to your Agency account (see Logging in to Your Agency Account for instructions, if needed).

  2. On your Agency’s myHome page, find the Opportunities tab and click it.

  3. Depending on the type of opportunity (date-specific or ongoing) you wish to create, click either the Add a Date-specific Opportunity link or the Add an Ongoing Opportunity link.

  4. Supply the information requested in the fields provided in the Add opportunity pages, clicking Save and Continue to move between pages. Note that fields marked with an asterisk () are required. Note also that on the first page (General Information) you will be prompted to assign a contact and location to the listing using the drop-down menus provided. If you wish to assign a contact and/or location not currently listed in the menus, select Another Person or Another Location and you will be prompted later in the opportunity-creation process to supply the new contact and/or location (see Working with Agency Contacts and Working with Agency Locations for more information about Agency contacts and locations).

  5. When you reach the Geographic location page, specify whether the opportunity is offered only at the location you specified in Step 4, or is available at multiple locations. If the opportunity will only be offered in the location specified when you began creating its listing, click No - only this location is available. If the opportunity will be offered in multiple locations, click instead Yes, more than one physical location is available, after which you will be prompted to provide additional location information and click Save and Continue.

 

When finished, VS will display the Registration Complete page for the new opportunity, which notes that your opportunity will appear in VS once an Administrator has viewed and approved it.

 

Opportunity listings to expire after an interval specified by an Administrator. VS will prompt you to update the listing by displaying a link in the Tasks section of the Overview tab of your Agency account.

Related Topics:

Modifying a Volunteer Opportunity

Changing Opportunity Types (Date-Specific and Ongoing)

Copying a Volunteer Opportunity

Disabling a Volunteer Opportunity

Deleting a Volunteer Opportunity