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Volunteer onboarding software: Effortlessly guide your volunteers through the onboarding process

Would you like to streamline volunteer recruitment and onboarding, making life easier for your Volunteer Managers?

Volunteer onboarding software such as Access Assemble supports you to work smarter, ensuring that the onboarding process is completed both swiftly and safely.

While this software provides a positive first impression on your prospective volunteers, it also supports your Volunteer Managers to make more of an impact, with less resources.

Discover more about our volunteer onboarding software to recruit the dream team your organisation deserves!

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Written by James Vjestica - Thought Leadership Expert.

What is volunteer onboarding software?

With time being a factor for Volunteer Managers, volunteer onboarding software is a digital approach that supports the safe and swift recruitment of prospective volunteers.

A suitable piece of volunteer onboarding software such as Access Assemble provides a specialist toolset that allows you to successfully recruit prospective volunteers by covering all bases of the recruitment process. This includes:

  • Creating attractive adverts: Upload your latest exciting roles to a designated recruitment page on your website, providing all the essential information to attract prospective volunteers. This includes details about the role, your organisation, potential shift patterns, location, and the benefits of the position.
  • Simplifying the onboarding process: Once a prospective volunteer applies for a role, you can then guide them through the onboarding process. This can save valuable time for both your Volunteer Manager and the respective applicant, as automated reminders can be sent to ensure that all safeguarding tasks and questionnaires are successfully completed.

Although this software helps to ensure a positive recruitment experience for the applicant, it also frees up valuable time for your Volunteer Manager, allowing them to focus on priority areas surrounding your volunteer strategy.

Read our whitepaper: How volunteer onboarding software can support the sector

What benefits can volunteer onboarding software provide?

Volunteer onboarding software provides niche functionality that supports you to significantly modernise your volunteer recruitment strategy; enabling you to work smarter, not harder. A market-leading solution such as Access Assemble will include crucial recruitment functionality that is able to provide great benefits such as the below.

Support your Volunteer Manager

Take the pressure off of your Volunteer Manager by automating administrative tasks, allowing them to focus on priority areas.

Build a dream team

Significantly increase your organisation’s visibility with an online presence and recruit more volunteers in the process.

Reduce onboarding times

Map out a clear recruitment journey that avoids delays and onboards applicants as swiftly as possible. 

Make a great first impression

Engage your applicants from the outset and make it clear what is expected from them, avoiding any confusion along the way.

Avoid administrative burden

Say ‘goodbye’ to convoluted spreadsheets and ‘hello’ to a streamlined digital approach that allows you to work smarter.

Comply with required regulations

Keep regulatory bodies (e.g. NHS guidelines) happy by ensuring all the required safeguarding boxes are ticked.

What impact has volunteer onboarding software had on the sector?

Volunteer onboarding software can have a fundamentally positive impact on the charity sector. For example, since our customers have invested in Access Assemble, they have been able to experience a tangible return on investment (ROI).

Why customers love our volunteer onboarding software

"I would absolutely recommend Access Assemble, our applications have increased, and onboarding is much quicker and more efficient. It also gives you a great overview of your volunteering programme.”

Stephanie Robey, Volunteering and Employability Manager - Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

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“Assemble has had a huge impact on the RSPCA as an organisation and this is largely down to us making use of the full breadth of the software, but if I had to pick a must-have feature, I really couldn't do without the recruitment tools - they are worth their weight in gold! It just makes recruitment so much easier and with a standardised approach across the Society, our Volunteer Coordinators love it too. The simplicity of being able to generate opportunities independently, but with full access to our role profiles and the comfort that nothing will get missed throughout the application process, has been game changing.”

Brian Reeves, Head of Volunteer Experience - RSPCA

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Ensure a swift and safe process with market-leading volunteer onboarding software

Volunteer onboarding software allows your Volunteer Managers to work smarter, rather than harder. Investing in a solution such as Access Assemble can free up valuable time, allowing you to focus on priority areas of your recruitment strategy. Are you ready to take a step into the future? Our experts are available to answer any questions you may have surrounding volunteer onboarding software. Speak to a member of the team.

Why the National Autistic Society love our volunteer onboarding software

“The biggest improvement is easily the streamlining of our volunteer recruitment. Being able to follow some simple steps to create and publish a recruitment advert, with the peace of mind that this will take applicants all the way through the recruitment journey, is revolutionary.”

Laura Clark, Head of Volunteering - National Autistic Society

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By James Vjestica

Thought Leadership Expert

Meet James Vjestica, our ‘Digital Content Manager’ for the Not For Profit division. James has spent over 5 years working with software providers who supply specialist solutions that enhance the processes of organisations within niche sectors. In addition to his technical experience, James has been affiliated with the Not For Profit sector at key stages of his career. This has included participating in a voluntary role at a local hospice prior to attending University, and upon graduating, accepting a role for a Social Enterprise in North Nottingham that supported members of the community to gain employment. These roles highlighted the importance that organisations within the Not For Profit sector play, which has since inspired him to raise money for charity on several occasions. At Access, James now draws on these experiences to consistently strategise content campaigns that will guide you through insightful journeys; clearly outlining pain points, how these obstacles can be tackled, and introducing viable solutions.