Volunteer and Events Coordinator

Type Full Time

Final date to receive applications January 31, 2026

College Degree Required? No

Salary Range $45,000 to $55,000, commensurate with experience

Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle trains volunteers to work one-on-one with adult students who are striving to improve their reading, writing, and English-speaking skills. We are looking for someone to help us recruit and retain the volunteers we need each year in our tutoring program. This is a full-time salaried position with health benefits, generous holidays, and vacation time.

This position reports to the Executive Director. The Volunteer and Events Coordinator also works closely with the Program Manager and Program Assistant, getting to know our tutors and ensuring that their volunteer experience is meaningful. Candidates must be comfortable working with people from a wide-range of backgrounds and will know how to make our volunteers feel appreciated. The successful applicant will be friendly and outgoing, enjoy juggling a variety of tasks, and be committed to building an inclusive and supportive environment with staff, tutors, and students.

While not required, we are especially interested in candidates who speak languages other than English, particularly Spanish, Persian, or Arabic. The candidate should demonstrate strong attention to detail and comfort with technology. To align with a candidate’s strengths and career goals, LVCA will support a candidate’s professional development.

Work hours are mostly daytime, with one evening in the office until 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. Occasional evening or weekend hours will be required for special events and other activities. This is primarily an in-person position.

Primary Goals/Duties

• Recruit approximately 100 new volunteer tutors each year to work with LVCA adult learners.
• Strengthen and enhance the volunteer experience to support long-term engagement and retention.
• Treat volunteer engagement as a key resource-development function, recognizing that volunteers contribute time, expertise, and capacity equal in impact to donor dollars.

A sample of tasks that one may encounter in this position is listed on our website, eracyforall.org/jobs.

Preferred Skills/

Experience:

• Volunteer management
• Event management
• Comfortable with technology and ability to learn new databases
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and exercise sound judgment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including comfort with public speaking. You will be joining a small staff where there is often an overlap of tasks; therefore, good communication is essential.

Work hours are mostly daytime, with one evening in the office until 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. Occasional evening or weekend hours will be required for special events and other activities. This is primarily an in-person position.

We are committed to building an inclusive organization that represents the people and communities we serve. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply for this position, including immigrants, women, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and people of differing abilities. We recognize that candidates from diverse backgrounds may thrive in new roles. If your experience doesn’t exactly match this job description, but you believe you have the skills to do the work, please don’t hesitate to apply and explain how your experience would transfer to this role.

Application is open until filled. Applications will be reviewed as they come in.