Volunteering vision

These are our vision principles and ambitions.

Offer everyone flexible and inclusive volunteering opportunities to contribute to the evolving engineering and technology landscape

• Demonstrate clear pathways to volunteering success
• Overcome perceived or actual hurdles to volunteering
• Assess our volunteering portfolio to meet changing needs

Provide the right environment to strengthen professional and personal skills, and grow networks

• Provide opportunities for learning and development in all roles and locations
• Support the volunteering community to conduct their roles responsibly, and safely
• Ensure the volunteering community are made aware of all important information pertinent to their roles

Enable everyone to recognise and celebrate their own - and others’ - contribution and impact

• Ensure everyone is aware of existing recognition schemes and programs that celebrate volunteering excellence
• Representatives of the volunteering community within the IET Governance structure are visible and contactable
• The volunteering community has a platform to communicate with each other
• Individuals have the opportunity to be profiled and celebrated in a public setting

Keep enhancing the volunteering experience

• Continuously look for development or accreditation opportunities to improve our offering to the volunteering community
• Continue to work across IET departments to ensure consistency in our approach
• Global ‘one team working’ is at the heart of everything we do

Give the volunteering community the opportunity to understand how their work supports our mission to engineer a better world

• The volunteering community is clear on how it contributes to the wider IET strategy and societal challenges 
• There are effective mechanisms for gathering feedback from the volunteering community 
• Volunteers are empowered to contribute to strategic work outside of the main Governance structures