ADS Webinar: A Simple Truth - Our Sport Relies On Volunteers 7/21/11
Job Assignment
Staffing Brigadoon:
"A job for every age, experience level and physical ability"
Job Assignment Considerations:
Get Availability And Live With It - If people say 1/2 day accept it cheerfully.
Get Job Preference and Work With It:
Use Your Records
Honor "My Job" Requests For Regulars Who Like A Rut
Encourage "New Jobs" For Promising Talent
Favor 2 Half-Day Jobs For The Easily Bored
Use Every Volunteer Somewhere Worthwhile
Reserve The Right To Make The Final Decision
Consider Past Experience - Keep Records!
Consider Master/Apprentice Partnerships
Hold Out For Full Day On Critical Jobs:
Hazard Observer
Assistant Hazard Observer
Official Hazard Timer
Announcer Assistant
Advanced Dressage Scribe
Cones Steward
Consider Half-Day Jobs:
Section Timer
Cones Setter
In Gate
Cones Timers
Hazard Backup Timer
Preliminary Level Dressage Scribes
Spotters - Maybe even 2 hr jobs!
Score Runners
Wheel Measurers
Warm Up
Hazard Radio
Job Assignment Order:
Old Hand Jobs - They always do that job
Core Jobs:
Volunteer Tent Manager
Volunteer Hospitality Manager
Dressage Scribe
Hazard Observer
Section Timer
Cones Scribe
Cones Steward
Master/Apprentice Partnerships
Other Dressage Jobs
Other Hazard Core Jobs
Official Timer,
Assistant Hazard Observer
Score Runners
Floaters - "Can Do Anything" And "Maybe's/Unreliables"
All The Rest