Sample Online Task Description

opportunity title::
Web Site Proofreading

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

opportunity description
Read and operate features on the Arizona Pioneers' Home Volunteers Association web site. Advise the web master of misspellings, broken links, confusing wording or navigation problems.

hours opportunity will take to complete
5 - 10 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):

Excellent written communication skills, attention to detail and commitment to deadlines. This site is new and currently undergoing extensive additions and changes. The volunteer may be required to perform more than one run through the site. We want it done by a person to insure user friendliness.

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

This opportunity has no expiration date (this opportunity is always available unless currently 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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