Get Connected Tech Tip: Update & Enhance your Profile, Qualifications, and more!
The beginning of the year is a great time to update your volunteer profile and renew or complete new volunteer qualifications for volunteer opportunities in 2025! Enhancing your profile with accurate interests, skills, and your most current availability will help the Get Connected site and your Volunteer Services team match you with the opportunities available that will be the best fit for you. To update your volunteer profile including your contact information and availability, log in to Get Connected and click "Edit Profile". From here you can update your contact information on your left and your availability on your right, then click the blue Update button to save your edits. This is also where you can upload a profile photo to your account that we will print on your permanent volunteer name badge. To easily update your interests and skills, click "View Profile" from your User Menu and then select "Manage Interests" and "Manage Skills" to update these areas.
To review and update your qualifications, click "Qualifications" from your User Menu. Here's some additional information you may find helpful: - Interests - are those areas that you are actively interested in learning more about and supporting through volunteer service.
- Skills - refers to specific skills sets you already have and are willing to share during volunteer service.
- Availability - Five Rivers MetroParks will never schedule you for an opportunity. We do; however, use this information to help us find volunteers available for our various volunteer opportunities.
- Volunteer Positions - All of our volunteer opportunities are organized under 9 core volunteer positions that support 9 main functions across our agency. Fanning Volunteer Positions helps our Get Connected site and our Volunteer Services team better recommend and match you with opportunities you are most interested in.
- Qualifications - Qualifications are how we track the completion of training and annual skills check offs for volunteer opportunities across the agency including those that involve the use of equipment and/or vehicles. Qualifications generally expire each year and must be renewed through additional training and/or an annual check off.
We recommend spending some time browsing our online Volunteer Training Library to view a variety of readily available online trainings to kickstart your new year of service. This is a great way to renew your training and qualifications or find a new volunteer opportunity and get started. Have a question or need assistance? Connect with our Volunteer Services team by phone at #937-275-7275, by email at volunteer.services@metroparks.org, or in-person at an upcoming Volunteer Open House - we're here to help you!
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