Marie
I'm interested in following this conversation. I use resource scheduling for assigning docents to museum tours, but so far that is the only bit of volunteer management taking place in Tessitura in my organization. For the first time recently, we have also implemented background checks on our volunteers who work closely with children. None of this is recorded in Tessitura, but neither is a lot of other volunteer info for us, other than the docents. Our docent manager has the impression that our HR department is keeping very simple files on these the background checks being completed. We use Baker Street Associates, which I believe is the same for both our employees and volunteers.
I'd be interested in hearing the pros and cons of using Tessitura for this purpose.
Following as well. Almost none of our organziations (we're a consortium) use Tessitura for any volunteer management, although I keep hoping we'll dive in soon.
I think (but have not tried yet, see above note re: diving in) that you could use rankings to restrict volunteer access to certain positions, assuming those positions are set up as performances. You could put the "must pass background" performances in a mode of sale that only the volunteers who have a successful background check (and appropriate ranking to indicate that) could access those positions.
Hi all -
If you're using Resource Scheduling to manage your volunteer schedule, you could use Worker Resource Qualifications to track this. A qualification could be added all workers who have passed the background check. Qualifications can optionally include valid dates in case these checks need to be re-run after so many years. Then, you'd include the qualification when selecting a Worker for the booking. Only those who have the Qualification will appear as available.
Thanks,
Patrick