Emergencies bring unique challenges: large numbers of spontaneous volunteers, high-risk environments, and urgent deployment needs. A Volunteer Management in Emergencies Officer is responsible for ensuring volunteers are integrated safely, efficiently, and in line with humanitarian principles during crisis response.
Key aspects
- Sets up rapid registration, briefing, and deployment systems for spontaneous and affiliated volunteers.
- Ensures minimum standards of safety, psychosocial support, and duty of care are upheld in emergencies.
- Coordinates with operations managers to match volunteers to urgent tasks without compromising well-being.
Without strong volunteer management in emergencies, volunteers can be left unprotected, or worse, put at risk. This role ensures volunteers are safe, useful, and respected, while maximising their contribution to humanitarian response.