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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