At Goodsted, you can post volunteering, learning and sponsorship opportunities. Depending on your app configurations, you will be seeing the available opportunity types.
How do I post an opportunity?
1. Access the post an opportunity form
You can easily access this form by clicking on +Post Opportunity button on the home page right corner.
💡Tip: On this form, we include tips and explanations so you can just get started by accessing the form, or you can give this article a read if you'd like to know what's included in the form!
2. Select the type of opportunity you'd like to post:
We have a few types of opportunities you can choose from. These include:
Volunteering: get support from the community to complete specific tasks or activities.
Learning: grow knowledge, skills, or confidence — or help others do the same.
Sponsorship: seek funding or resources to support your initiative.
This will help show volunteers and members of the community what type of involvement is required for each opportunity.
3. Tell us more about your opportunity:
Opportunity Title: The title is the first thing volunteers will see - it must help draw them in! Craft an engaging and enticing title by making it descriptive, highlighting your need, or something special about the opportunity. Some examples might be:
Help us craft a social media new engagement strategy for our new sustainable product suite
Help a black-led organisation boost it's impact reporting methodology
Volunteer at our school workshop to teach students about conservation
Host: Select which directorate/ team / organisation is hosting this opportunity.
📝 Note: On the platform, each opportunity must be linked to an initiative, organisation, or a directorate/team.
Your Need: This is your space to explain what you need help with. Write about the challenge you're looking to address or the problem you’re looking to solve with their help! The more information a volunteer has upfront about the problem you're looking to tackle, the quicker they'll know whether they're the right person for the job.
Your Goals: Add some tangible outputs and outcomes you'd like to achieve at the end of this engagement, to help your supporters better understand your goals, and how their support will help you reach these.
Would you like a certain number of students to benefit from mentorship, a list of ideas to take forward, or a strategic action plan or draft design? Let us know!
Cause: Let us know which cause or impact area this opportunity is aiming to progress - this can be the impact you're organisation aims to achieve, or the impact of this one-off project. This will help us with impact measurement and reporting!
Beneficiary groups: Select the intended beneficiary group of your volunteer work.
4. Tell us more about the supporters you're looking for:
Skills & Experience: To help you find the right match, it's critical we know what skills and expertise and required to help you with this opportunity. Let us know what the most important (or 'primary') skills you need, and list up to 3 additional skills for your opportunity.
Next, let us know the level of experience which is required to help you achieve your goals. And indicate if your opportunity is suitable for students.Documentation: Here you can indicate if you need any specific documents/info from participants.
Accessibility requirements: If there any accessibility features or limitations for this opportunity, you can mention them here.
Timing: When would you like this opportunity to begin / volunteers to start? Do you have a fixed timeframe in mind? If no, you can just select 'Flexible.
Commitment: Here, it's important to get the details right. Let us know how much time a volunteer should expect to dedicate.
📝 Note: If you're not sure about the time commitment, don't worry! You can always align with volunteers depending on their availability when you first connect. However, setting a baseline here will help with setting expectations.
5. Iron out a few of the logistics
Your involvement: Here you can indicate whether you as the opportunity lead are participating to the opportunity as a volunteer. If you select "yes", then your hours will also ve counted within the volunteering hours.
Capacity: Let us know how many supporters you need to help you with this opportunity.
Location: Is this an in-person or remote volunteer opportunity? Set the location accordingly.
Deadline: Finally, is there a deadline by which you need volunteers to apply? If so, toggle this option to set a date in the calendar.
⚠️Important: Please note that beyond this date, the opportunity will be closed and you will no longer be able to receive applications.
6. The final step!
Privacy: By default, all opportunities on the platform are public. However, if you'd like to make this opportunity private to a specific organisation this will be possible very soon!
🙌 And that's it! If you have any questions or need help posting an opportunity you can contact us at support@goodsted.com