Talk:Volunteer Policy

Contingency

There should probably be mention somewhere about staff being available for contingencies. If a key volunteer falls ill at the last minute, for example, then I could see a staff member helping by coordinating with other volunteers to help out or stepping in themselves if they have the right skills. When I had to have emergency treatment in July/August last year, it would have been handy to just make one call into the office rather than having to chase around with emails and phone calls to ask people if they could take over meetings for the month. --Fæ 20:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

This makes a lot of sense. It should probably also have something saying that volunteers should ensure that they keep the office in the loop so that staff have all of the info available to them to pick things up and run with them if need be. Mike Peel 21:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

At the moment, there isn't anything in the policy (before or after my re-write) about the duties and obligations of volunteers. There probably should be... I'll give it some thought. --Tango 22:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I've just done a bit of re-write of the draft based on what I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks. I've included reliability as one of the reasons for hiring staff, which what you're saying certainly falls under. I've also said that staff should facilitate the work of volunteers, which I think would include stepping into the breach where required. I haven't included anything explicit about taking over when a volunteer is unavailable, though. I'm not sure that level of detail is needed in this policy. --Tango 22:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)