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Volunteer Coordinator resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what volunteer coordinators actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most volunteer coordinators should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Volunteer Coordinator with a background in community engagement and roster management, matching volunteers to roles that suit their skills and availability. Comfortable handling recruitment, screening, induction and compliance, and reporting hours and outcomes to funders. Known for keeping programs staffed and volunteers connected to the organisation's purpose.
Key skills
- Community engagement
- Event coordination
- Rostering and venue operations
- Project management
- Better Impact
- Volgistics
- Rosterfy
- Microsoft Excel
- Salesforce
- Stakeholder management
- People leadership
- Written communication
- Working with Children Check
- National Police Check
- Volunteer induction and training
Experience: example bullet points
- Recruited and onboarded 30 volunteers for a community meals program, reducing the average time from enquiry to first shift from three weeks to ten days.
- Rebuilt rosters across three sites using Rosterfy, cutting unfilled shifts from around 15 a month to fewer than five.
- Maintained volunteer records and hours in Better Impact for a team of 120, producing quarterly reports that met grant acquittal deadlines.
- Coordinated induction and safety compliance for new volunteers, including Working with Children Checks and National Police Checks, with no compliance lapses over two years.
- Ran monthly recognition events and a volunteer newsletter, which lifted retention across a 60-person cohort, with more than half returning for a second year.
Education
Bachelor degree in community services, social work or a related field, or a Diploma of Community Services with relevant coordination experience.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Working with Children Check
- National Police Check
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Better Impact
- Volgistics
- Rosterfy
- Salesforce
- volunteer management
- community engagement
- roster coordination
- grant acquittal
- National Standards for Volunteer Involvement
- ACNC
- not-for-profit
- WHS
- first aid certificate
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.