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Strategic Employee Volunteer Engagement: Maximizing Business Relationships

Learn how to engage employee volunteers effectively to advance your organization's goals. Discover the types of employee volunteers, ways they can help, and best practices to manage them successfully. Connect with businesses, build capacity, and achieve strategic objectives.

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Strategic Employee Volunteer Engagement: Maximizing Business Relationships

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  1. Peter JonesCorporate Engagement ManagerOne Westminster Building relationships with businesses

  2. Types of Employee Volunteers • Fundraising Volunteers – often cause led, driven by personal need • Practical team type challenges – often practical led, by those who are not aware of the needs of the sector, require ‘fun’ • Skills based – either team or individual – often employer led, public sector especially, learning and development opportunities for both parties

  3. How can employee volunteers help? Capacity building Supporting beneficiaries Trustees Manpower Training staff/volunteers

  4. Using skilled employee volunteers to achieve your strategic objectives B • Mid-term: • Event Support • Trustees • Marketing support • Longer term: • Trustees • Mentoring • Skills exchange • Bespoke projects A • Bite-sized: • Peer Mentoring • SMT Mentoring • Skills Workshops • Festive event support

  5. The Pitch • Key message – what is it – what do you do? • What are you offering? • What projects need employee volunteers? • Are there any L&D opportunities? • Have you worked with employee volunteers before? • Who will manage employee volunteers?

  6. Connecting employers with communities

  7. Managing Employee Volunteers • Employee Volunteers have different needs and expectations from ‘traditional volunteers’ • Employers need opportunities that maximise limited employee time • Think about what you need, as well as their needs • Employers need you to explain without jargon what you do, how, when, where

  8. Best Practice • Develop a range of opportunities from team through to solo opportunities • Provide employer with JD and brief all employee volunteers before they start with you • Collect evidence and provide a case study to employer • Build relationship with employer slowly

  9. Getting started • Find a broker/volunteer centre to help you get started • Don’t ask employee volunteers for money for your project • Provide a range of skills based opportunities that are needs led but also align with key core competencies of the business • Understand the business better and understand that relationships grow slowly

  10. Case Studies

  11. Westminster Contact: Fatima Busefi | Community Liaison Officer l Time & Talents fatima@volunteer.co.uk Kensington & Chelsea Contact: Rashpal Saini | Partnerships Officer | Business & Community Together Rashpal.saini@voluntarywork.org.uk Peter Jones Corporate Engagement Manager One Westminster peter.jones@volunteer.co.uk 07501 227793

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