Shepherd’s Center-Fairfax/Burke Offering Various Volunteer Opportunities

The Shepherd’s Center has a vision: A World Without Loneliness. To achieve that vision, they work hard to ensure that as members of the community age, they do so with dignity and experience a high quality of life. Services include health advocacy, decluttering advice, food pick-up and delivery, and friendly callers and visitors, including to but not limited to veterans.

If you are interested in the following opportunities, please contact Volunteer Specialist Shannon White at swhite@volunteerfairfax.org.

1. Transportation Driver
   • Flexible schedule
   • Pick and choose the hours and days you volunteer
   • Pick up clients from their home and drive to the destination.
   • Return clients back to their homes.
2. Friendly Caller Program Manager
   • 10 hours/month
   • Supervise the on-going Friendly Caller Program that is actively engaging over 50 participants and 30 volunteers each month
   • Remote
3. Office Operations Manager
   • 10 hours/week
   • Manage, train and supervise agroup of 12 remote office volunteers
   • Remote
4. Social media team member
   • Flexible schedule
   • Contribute your ideas and skills to promote free support services and enrichment programs for seniors (50+) within the community
   • Tell inspiring stories about the volunteers and seniors through writing, photos, and/or videos
   • Publicize informative and enjoyable educational programs
   • Remote
5. Webmaster
   • Set your own schedule: approximately 10 hours/month
   • Training provided
   • Qualifications:
     • Software and computer competency
     • Patient with a broad range of requests
   • Maintain website:
     • Update site photos and images
     • Maintain email accounts
     • Revise design as required
     • Transmit batch emails as requested
     • Provide monthly statistics regarding usage
   • Remote
6. Office/Admin volunteer
   • Time commitment:
     • 6 hours/ month (two 3-hour shifts)
     • Monday-Friday: 10:00 am-1:00 pm, 1:00-4:00 pm
   • Training provided
   • Match volunteer drivers with local seniors needing transportation to medical appointments and shopping:
     • Make calls
     • Provide information
     • Data entry
   • Remote