Bush Heritage Office Volunteers are a force 'behind the scenes'. The support that our Office Volunteers provide is invaluable to the smooth running of our organisation. We are fortunate to have a small team of regular Office Volunteers and sometimes need additional support to handle influxes of activity or big projects. Our regular Office Volunteers learn a lot about Bush Heritage and contribute much to the culture of our workplace. If you are keen to join in and support conservation at our office, please check out the upcoming opportunities and apply for those that best suit you.

Office Volunteer placements

  

Updated 15/12/2008  

  

Fundraising
 

Volunteer Christmas Card crew - placements filled

Assist the team to envelope and label cards for our many supporters.
Skills required: Happy to help with the mail.
Time commitment: Thursday 11 and Thursday 17 December. Other dates between 8 - 19 December are possible.
Places: 10 on-call volunteers.
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

Volunteer Bush Heritage News Assistant (regular quarterly) - placement filled but you are welcome to apply to go on standby in case the current volunteer becomes unavailable. 

A volunteer is needed to assist the quarterly distribution of the Bush Heritage News.  You may be of great assistance if you can label, bundle and package newsletters up to four times each year.
Skills required: Happy to help with the mail.
Time commitment: One day per quarter.
Places: 1
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

Volunteer mail assistant - casual

Occasionally we do special mailouts for fundraising appeals, or sometimes our regular volunteers are away on a holiday and we need relief support to get letters and newsletters posted.  Please let us know if you would be happy to go on a call list for people who can help to do enveloping and labelling every now and then.
Skills required: Happy to help with the mail.
Time commitment: Casual, on-call.
Places: 2
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

  

Planning and Operations

Volunteer filing assistant - placement filled

Assist the staff in the Operations Team by filing documents and improving organisational systems.
Skills required: Filing experience, good organisation and satisfied by putting things in order.
Days per week: Initially one day per week for 4 weeks, negotiable afterward.
Places: 1
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

  

Assessment and Property Services

Volunteer endnoter

Classify, catalogue and name electronic literature using bibliographic software.
Skills required: strong computer skills, experience with bibliographic software (eg. Endnote), a strong sense of organisation.
Project length: 2-4 weeks full-time, or longer for part-time.
Days per week: Mon, Tue or Thur.
Places: 1
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

Volunteer ecology data assistant

Use your data entry skills to help us with flora and fauna data gathered from reserves.
Skills required: Medium level computer skills, familiarity with Windows software, high level of attention to detail and accuracy, tolerant of repetitive tasks.  Experience using database such as MS Access would be an advantage.
Days per week: One day per week.
Places: 1
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

People and Finance

Volunteer data entry assistant

Put your data entry skills to a great use and assist the team with financial data entry.
Skills required: Data entry experience.  Good communication and telephone skills.  Accounts payable experience and experience with MS Great Plains accounting package would be an advantage.
Days per week: One day per week.
Places: 1
Click here to download the Office Volunteer Application Form

All positions are based at the Bush Heritage Conservation Support Centre, 5/395 Collins Street Melbourne.  

It is possible that the available opportunities might not match your interests and availability.  However the future will bring different opportunities.  We are interested to know if you are keen to volunteer so that we can keep you in touch with volunteer activities.  It would help us to know about the type of volunteer work you would like to do, the amount of time you are happy to commit and any relevant training and experience you may have.  In order to let us know, please send us a completed Office Volunteer Expression Of Interest Form.

For more information on volunteering in the Melbourne Office, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at info@bushheritage.org.au or call 1300 NATURE (1300 628 873).