Rob
Jackson
Rob
Jackson has worked in Volunteering Management since
July 1994. During that time he has managed volunteers
and volunteer programmes in education, advice, fundraising
and children's services settings at local, regional
and national levels.
Between
1999 and 2005 Rob led the development of volunteer
fundraising at the Royal National Institute of the
Blind (RNIB. During this time Rob chaired the Institute
of Fundraising working party that developed the UK's
first code of good practice on volunteer fundraising.
Rob also spent nine months running the Fundraising
(Strategy) Department at RNIB, with responsibility
for volunteering development, fundraising development,
training and development, strategy and planning, and
business and market development research.
In April 2005 Rob joined Volunteering England as Regional
Volunteering Development Manager. He has responsibility
for a team of nine staff who are delivering a ten
year strategy to improve England's volunteering infrastructure.
Rob has also previously run his own training company
providing volunteer management training for, amongst
others, the Directory of Social Change, Wales Council
for Voluntary Action, The Imperial War Museum North,
NCH, the Metropolitan Police, Volunteer Bureaux and
The Samaritans.
Rob writes, speaks and trains on volunteer programme
management internationally and is active in a variety
of ways within the UK volunteering sector, including
serving as a volunteer governor at his son's school.
Rob also pioneers the use of the Internet as a means
of networking amongst managers of volunteers and volunteer
programmes in the UK through UKVPMs (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UKVPMs ),
the first email networking resource for UK based Volunteer
Programme Managers.
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