Volunteer Coordinator Services

The Vendor is required to provide the volunteer coordinator works to recruit volunteers, develop and maintain projects and activities to engage the offender population supervised by the office.
- Provide a volunteer service that will address recruitment, orientation training, monitoring and implementation of volunteer activities to meet offender needs.
- Citizens will be recruited and trained to provide as wide a range of services as possible.
- actively liaise between the different organizations to establish and maintain projects, which focus on strengthening community resources for offenders on conditional release such as in-reach programs, wellness activities, job search, securing identification and transportation.
- The Volunteer Coordinator will maintain a record of activities and results for reporting purposes, which provides details on numbers of volunteers, hours spent by each volunteer, and hours spent by the Volunteer Coordinator.
- Conduct information sessions with a broad range of agencies, organizations, officials and educational facilities within the area as a means of informing them about volunteer opportunities in community corrections that are available for individuals.
- Conduct presentations and information sessions.
- Interview potential volunteers.
- Establish a broad recruitment base, including Indigenous communities, local service groups, chaplaincy and faith communities, universities, colleges and volunteer centres.
- Facilitate availability of volunteers to federal offenders placed at local Community Residential Facilities.
- Liaise with Community Residential Facilities to organize volunteer-led activities.
- Actively develop contacts with agencies, including mental health service providers, faith communities and ethno-cultural societies, where these agencies can provide service and support to the offender.
- Actively recruit volunteers with second languages; maintain a record for use in identifying volunteers with various linguistic profiles.
- Screen appropriate volunteers for one-to-one or group contact; and assign to specific projects.
- Identify and arrange, in cooperation with the Manager of Programs, Parole Officer Supervisors and Mental Health Team, necessary ongoing training for volunteers.