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MOVE Courses – Volunteer PROGRAMME Management
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VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME MANAGER RETREAT 2009
Why You Should Attend
This
retreat aims to bring advanced learning to volunteer programme managers
(VPMs). So if you think you are past the basics of volunteer management
and feel the need to advance in the field, come and join us for 3 days
of exhilarating and interactive learning with local specialists and
foreign experts. Our invited guru, Mr Rob Jackson, will share
from his vast experience in managing volunteers. Take this
opportunity to widen our perspectives into volunteer management and
transform our job from everyday grind and routine into fervor and
passion for motivating and nurturing a new breed of volunteers who
would serve with heart.
Learning Objectives
- Examine core
philosophical issues of volunteerism that VPMs need to consider as they
grow their role and influence within their organisations.
- Explore and understand good work ethics VPMs should adopt and its implications on their work
- Learn about innovation volunteer recruitment and retention
- Learn how to lead effective teams using action learning
- Gain fresh perspectives and ideas how to create a strategic position for VPM in their own organisation
Highlights of the Retreat
The
retreat programme is designed to give you an extended time to think
through complex issues on volunteer management. You can expect an
exciting mix of sessions in the form of workshops, small group
discussions and reflections to enhance learning and sharing.
- Support Circles
A time for peer consultation where
you share your problems in volunteer management work in small groups
and learn how your peers have handled similar issues.
- Facilitated Discussions
A time for VPMs to voice their
concerns and opinions in volunteer management. The end result of these
sessions is to create awareness on various issues that matter to VPMs
and explore solutions and strategies
- Social Event
A time to let VPMs have fun and relax. Chill out time!
Target Participants
- Volunteer Programme Managers/ Coordinators , with at least one year’s experience
- Other staff
members with responsibilities for volunteers or a volunteer programme
in their organisations, with at least one year’s experience
Further details and programme of the retreat can be found in the retreat brochure attached below
About the Trainer:
Rob
Jackson has worked in the Volunteering sector since July 1994.
During that time he has managed volunteers and volunteer programmes in
education, advice, fundraising and children’s services settings
at local, regional and national levels.
Between 1999 and 2005 Rob led the development of volunteer fundraising
at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). During this
time Rob chaired the Institute of Fundraising working party that
developed the UK’s first code of good practice on volunteer
fundraising. Rob also spent nine months running the Fundraising
(Strategy) Department at RNIB, with responsibility for volunteering
development, fundraising development, training and development,
strategy and planning & business and market development research.
In April 2005 Rob joined Volunteering England (www.volunteering.org.uk)
as Regional Volunteering Development Manager, a role he held until he
was appointed Director of Development & Innovation in September
2006.
Rob has also previously run his own training company providing
volunteer management training for, amongst others, the Directory of
Social Change, Wales Council for Voluntary Action, The Imperial War
Museum North, NCH, the Metropolitan Police, Volunteer Bureaux and The
Samaritans.
Rob writes, speaks and trains on volunteer programme management
internationally and is active in a variety of ways within the UK
volunteering sector, including serving as a volunteer governor at his
son’s school and as a member of the editorial team for
www.e-volunteerism.com.
Rob also pioneers the use of the Internet as a means of networking
amongst managers of volunteers and volunteer programmes in the UK
through UKVPMs, the first email networking resource for UK based
Volunteer Programme Managers.
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Date
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25 - 27 March 2009 (Wednesday - Friday)
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Duration
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9.00 am – 5.00 pm
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Venue
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Garden Hotel Singapore
14 Balmoral Road
Singapore 259800
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Course Fee
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Fees (without funding)
Twin-sharing: $800* per pax
Single : $950* per pax
* includes 2-night hotel accommodation, all meals, training sessions and course materials
Nett Fee (after NTG funding)
Non profit organisations:
For Singaporean and Permanent Resident:
- Twin-sharing: $350 per pax (after $450 NTG funding)
- Single
: $500 per pax ((after $450 NTG funding)
For Employment Pass Holder / Work Permit Holder:
- Twin-sharing: $440 per pax (after $360 NTG funding)
- Single
: $590 per pax ((after $360 NTG funding)
Government/ Government-affiliated organisations:
For Singaporean and Permanent Resident:
- Twin-sharing: $440 per pax (after $360 NTG funding)
- Single : $590 per pax ((after $360 NTG funding)
For Employment Pass Holder / Work Permit Holder:
- Twin-sharing: $560 per pax (after $240 NTG funding)
- Single
: $665 per pax (after $285 NTG funding)
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Registration
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Please click here for details
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Registration Closing Date
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20 March 2009 |
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Members' Discount
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Not Applicable.
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Course Brochure
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Please click here to
download
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Enquiries
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Please contact us at
6227 6812 or training@move.org.sg
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