Receptionist
Puddle Jumpers IncWe aim to provide opportunities for volunteers to be involved in their community and open their hearts to the wonderful world of helping others. We aim to provide volunteers with training, support and opportunities to expand their own development, promote social awareness, social compassion, and social leadership. Encouraging our volunteers to develop a social partnership to enhance both their own lives and the lives of the children and young people they engage with. We aim for volunteers to understand and value, the impact that their actions and hearts can have on others in the community, especially those in need, thereby enhancing young adults’ sense of social community, interaction and belonging.
We will do this by:
- Providing volunteers (especially young adults) with the opportunity to volunteer and gain experience in the human services sector
- Promoting positive concepts of self worth through the challenges and involvement in relationships and activities
- Enhancing volunteers personal development skills
- Ensuring that all volunteers receive adequate training and screening checks to optimize their volunteering experience for all involved
- Working from a strengths based approach; enhancing and building on existing strengths and capacities
Duties specific to the position:
- Answering the phones and taking messages,
- Assisting with camp programming and logistic planning and filing,
- Facebook posts and updating,
- Data entry, typing, photocopying and laminating,
- Being the first point of call to all people who come to the door,
- Ability to empathise and assist those who are in need
- Have had pervious Receptionist or administration experience in a busy workplace
- Creating resources for upcoming camps or community food nights.