Sample Online Task Description

opportunity title:
Research Prescott, Arizona area Elected Officials

organization sponsoring this opportunity:
Arizona Pioneers' Home - Volunteers Association
http://aztec.asu.edu/azph
Prescott, Arizona

opportunity description
The Arizona Pioneers' Home serves residents of Arizona who are over 60 years of age with assisted living and skilled nursing care. We need to keep area elected officials up-to-date on our activities. We need assistance in gathering the names and contact information for Prescott, Arizona area area city, county and state officials, then compiling this information into a format so it can be easily imported into our database.

hours opportunity will take to complete
5 hours

weeks volunteer will have to complete this opportunity
two weeks

will this job involve work directly with clients rather than or in addition to staff or other volunteers?
no

volunteer skills\equipment needed
(a computer and regular access to the Internet are always a must):
Understand how to find and use online phone books, how to use Web search engines, attention to detail, excellent written communications and commitment to deadlines.

This opportunity is totally virtual (volunteer doesn't have to be onsite at the org).

This opportunity will expire when filled.

If you are interested in this opportunity, you will need to e-mail us with:

(you have submitted some of this information -- e-mail, phone number, skills--earlier to us, but it is helpful to have this in your e-mail of interest as well, to expedite the matching of volunteers to assignments)

Feel free to add any additional information into this e-mail, to demonstrate your interest and commitment to this assignment, and previous experience relating to this assignment.

You may be required to canswer additional questions, go through an online or phone orientation, or submit samples of your work before you are given this virtual assignment.

We cannot guarantee that you will receive this online assignment; matching potential volunteers to tasks is at the discretion of the organization. Also, some assignments may be "full" by the time you contact the organization. In case you do not get an online assignment in which you expressed interest, check back to this site for another assignment, or, view this information on how to find virtual opportunities.

PLEASE do not start on this or any virtual opportunity until you have communicated with the organization and received permission to do so.


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