The Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s (KGF) opened a Wellness Center (KGC) in the fall of 2025 to provide free of charge programs, support and education to people living with Parkinson’s disease. Both the Foundation and the Center continue to grow strongly and now seek to implement best practice volunteer management processes across a range of functions within both organizations.
The Director of Volunteer Services (DVS) is a full-time leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a comprehensive volunteer program that supports the missions and operations of the Kirk Gibson Foundation and the Kirk Gibson Center for Parkinson’s Wellness.
This role consolidates a currently distributed set of responsibilities into a single accountable leader, supplemented by staff and other volunteers, to build and run a scalable volunteer system. The DVS will oversee the full volunteer lifecycle—from recruitment through retention—while ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and delivering an exceptional volunteer experience.
In addition to ongoing operations, this role will lead two critical early-stage initiatives:
Required:
Preferred:
Strategic Initiative: Volunteer Coaches (Build and Launch)
This new model, which entails the use of unpaid coaches working alongside paid coaches, is a vital element of the Center’s growth plan. While the DVS will play an important role in recruiting and vetting the volunteer coaches, the full implementation (e.g. including training, scheduling, and performance management) requires close coordination and matrix process ownership by the Director of Programing and the Director of Innovation; below are specific steps forward:
Scope & Impact