Created: March 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM | Updated: May 5, 2025 | By NZ Navigator Trust
Virtual volunteer roles don’t suit every organisation, but if you can consider it, it may open opportunities to engage more volunteers, including the chance to engage people or bring skills that would otherwise not be possible.
Virtual volunteering helps you to open your organisation to broaden volunteer diversity and attract the best person for the role you are offering.
Virtual Volunteering is volunteering using the internet, offsite from the organisation in a range of tasks. Virtual roles are generally computer-based, but there are also options for remote volunteer projects: practical tasks that a volunteer can take home.
Virtual volunteer roles don’t suit every organisation, but if you can consider it, it may open opportunities to engage more volunteers, including the chance to engage people or bring skills that would otherwise not be possible.
Volunteering Victoria has set up guides to help you recruit and manage virtual volunteers:
Download an overview - Virtual Volunteering Guide
Download a Guide - designing roles and projects