About this event
Volunteering today is not the same as it was twenty years ago. Rob’s presentation will look at some of the key ways in which society is changing
and how these changes affect volunteerism. However, just exploring these changes isn’t enough. Rob will also discuss what leaders of volunteers can do to update their practices to accommodate these changes, further enhancing
their engagement and retention of 21st Century volunteers.
Speaker: Rob Jackson has worked in the volunteering movement for nearly 20 years, during which time he has led and managed volunteers and volunteer programmes in education, advice, fundraising and children’s services settings at local, regional and national levels. As well as his expertise in volunteerism, Rob has strong links with the fundraising world. He sits on the
Institute of Fundraising’s Standards Committee and Convention Board and chaired the Institute’s working party which developed the UK’s first code
of good practice on volunteer fundraising.
In 2011 Rob established Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd and provides consultancy, public speaking and training services on a range of topics, with strategic volunteer engagement remaining at the core of his work. Rob works with clients large and small in the UK, Europe and North America as well as providing support to the UK arm of volunteer management software company, Volunteer Squared. He also co-authored the 2012 publication The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook, has his own blog and writes a monthly “Voice Of Volunteering” column for Third Sector Magazine online.
Rob is an active volunteer, serving as: chair of governors at a large Lincolnshire primary school; as founder and moderator of UKVPMs, the first
email networking resource for UK based Volunteer Programme Managers; and as a member of the editorial team for e-Volunteerism.com, an international journal on volunteering issues.
NOVAA Member Cost: $70. Non-Member Cost: $80.