Create an opportunity: Step 1 – Details
This article shows group managers how to complete the first step of the opportunity builder by entering the opportunity's details.
The opportunity builder is tailored to meet your needs as an organisation. It allows Volunteer Managers to design custom forms reflective of their organisation's recruitment and screening processes, and walk you through the process of creating an opportunity on the Be Collective platform.
Get to Step 1 – Details
Open your group management page
Click Create opportunity in the action bar, or open the Opportunities tab and click Create new opportunity
You will land on Step 1 – Details in the Add and post opportunity builder
To begin, enter the opportunity details as best you can. The builder will ask you for the following:
Title
What is your volunteer's specific role? This should be short, engaging and give the volunteer a sense of identity.
Overview of the role
Why should the volunteer be interested in working with you? Begin with a sentence or two to make your opportunity sound compelling and meaningful – the first few sentences of this section will also be shown in the search feed, and are an ideal place to give volunteers a reason to click through and find out more.
In this section, you should also anticipate any questions potential volunteers might have, clearly state what is expected and explain how the work affects your mission.
The Overview of the role is entered in a rich text editor. For more details, see How do I use Be Collective's rich text editor?
Tasks and Responsibilities
Please use this section to list individual tasks and responsibilities the role entails, clicking + Add another task to create a field for each new task you'd like to add. This will also be shown on the volunteer's social record, a resume of their volunteering automatically generated for them by Be Collective.
Location
This is autofilled from Google Maps, so you can enter the first word of the address and select the appropriate location from the dropdown that appears. If applicable, you can also enter any more specific details in the Additional location info field. This can include details such as a room number, or a gate number if your opportunity takes place at a sports ground. If your volunteer opportunity has no location (for instance, an online opportunity a volunteer can perform from home), please check the No specific location box instead and continue.
Experience Gained
You can use this drop-down menu to select as many skills as you like, that a prospective volunteer can gain or develop in your opportunity. If none apply, you can check the No experience gained checkbox, but we recommend you don't! Our list includes broad personal qualities such as 'Teamwork' and 'Communication Skills' in addition to more specific skills.
Youth Accessible
If your opportunity is suitable for volunteers under the age of 18, please select Yes in this section. You can also choose to enter a minimum age requirement to further clarify appropriate age range. Young volunteers who fit into your specified age range will be able to filter for youth accessible roles in their search bar and will be able to access your opportunity.
If you identify that your opportunity is suitable for volunteers under the age of 13, they will need guardian consent through a family group before they can apply. Under 13s can only participate in volunteering on Be Collective through a family group. You will not see any applications from volunteers under 13 that haven't been screened and approved by a parent or guardian first. You can also indicate if parental/guardian supervision is required for volunteers in this section.
Note: If you decide to engage young people through Be Collective, you will need to acknowledge and agree that your organisation has child safeguarding policies in place to protect volunteers under the age of 18. When you submit a legal acknowledgment of these policies, the acknowledgement will be documented and time stamped in your group's settings under Youth Volunteering.
Contact Person
In this section, you can nominate a contact person's name, email address and phone number. The contact person does not have to be the person who manages your Be Collective account – this can simply be a person volunteers can contact for more information.
Causes
If your volunteer role serves specific causes, you can select them from the drop-down box here. You can select as many as you like, and they can be the same as or different from the causes selected for your group.
Opportunity suitability
This field is not compulsory, but you can use it to indicate if your opportunity is suitable for specific groups, such as those with sensory impairments, large groups or volunteers with limited English.
Credits
If you'd like to make social credits available to volunteers you assign to this opportunity, you can nominate a number of credits here. The number of credits you enter will be awarded to each volunteer for every instance of volunteering (e.g. a shift) they complete.
For more information on how social credits can be used to reward volunteers, please see How do I apply Social Credits and Rewards to opportunities?
Social credits & rewards are available only to Be Collective Pro and Full Platform subscribers. To learn more about Be Collective's subscription plans, please see Be Collective's product plans & pricing
Continue to the next step
When you've completed the details, click Save and continue to proceed to Step 2.