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Jobs
A in Fellowship One terminology is any helper or leader that is required to fulfill the needs of an activity. For example, for a Worship Service activity, there are several positions that need to be filled to ensure the activity runs smoothly - possibly door greeters, worship center ushers, communion/sacrament ushers, and so on.
A job can also mean one of several things:
- a volunteer service opportunity
- a paid position on the church staff
- a paid worker position for specific activities
Jobs Administration (Creating Job Information Fields, Requirements, and Volunteer Types)
Before you spend time creating your jobs, there are a couple of administrative tasks you can do to ensure you collect all the information you need. See any of the following for complete details:
- Job Information—details about the job including a job description, time commitment, any training needed, and so on.
- Requirements—items/training/tasks a person must complete before they can volunteer or advance in membership status.
- Volunteer Types—data field used to designate people as volunteers, staff members, paid workers, and so on. Used when creating staffing assignments.
Creating Jobs
To create a volunteer roster for an activity, you must first create jobs (and job schedules). When creating jobs you have the ability to track many things about a job. However, you can create a simple job with no additional information included. The choice is yours.
Tip! If you want to track all information about a job, spend some time creating the first job within a ministry. Complete all job information settings and restrictions. Now clone the job and rename it with another job name. You will have a carbon copy of the original job without having to enter any information. You can simply edit any portions that are different from the original job.
The job options you can track are as follows:
- Activity settings—you have the option to determine whether or not a job is associated with a specific activity. If an activity is not associated with an activity it is available to every activity within the ministry you are working in when you create the job.
- Custom job information—fields configured in the Admin area of Fellowship One and may or may not be required when creating a job. The purpose of job information fields is to define as much information as possible about a job.
- Custom job attributes—configured in the Admin area of Fellowship One for job reporting purposes. Attributes are associated with a job to organize it and group the job by characteristic or type.
- Job restrictions—criteria that must be met prior to being given a staffing assignment. Some jobs may have no restrictions while others may have very stringent restrictions. You have the ability to choose what action Fellowship One should take when you try to create a staffing assignment for someone who does not meet all restrictions (display a warning or prevent the assignment from saving). Restrictions include any of the following:
- General restrictions—the volunteer/staff member must be a specific gender or age.
- Marital status restrictions—the volunteer must have a particular marital status before being given a staffing assignment for the job.
- Requirements—configured in the Admin area of Fellowship One and accessible from an individual's record in the Requirements widget. Requirements are typically anything the church requires a volunteer/staff member to have completed prior to being given a staffing assignment for the job. (For example, background checks, reference checks, specific training or classes, and so on.)
- Status restrictions—the volunteer must have a particular status at the church before being given a staffing assignment for the job.