The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) is looking to hire up to 50 professionals, managers or executives from outside the social service sector to manage volunteers at charities here. As part of this effort to help social service agencies (SSAs) strengthen their...
The National Council of Social Service is looking to hire up to 50 professionals, managers or executives from outside the social service sector to manage volunteers at charities here.
As part of this effort to help social service agencies strengthen their volunteer management capabilities, the NCSS launched the $8 million Enhanced Volunteer Manager Funding scheme on Wednesday. Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin, who is also the NCSS adviser, said at the scheme's launch that there is a need to optimise volunteer resources, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic which has severely affected donations and impacted the number of volunteers helping out at SSAs, given safe distancing measures.
He added that it is crucial to have dedicated volunteer managers now to"jumpstart the recovery of volunteer programmes and lay the groundwork for increased volunteer management capacity over time".A manpower shortage has always been a key challenge faced by SSAs, the NCSS said in a press release yesterday.
According to a sector survey conducted by NCSS in 2018, only about half of the 242 agencies that responded to the survey have staff who manage volunteers.
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