NSS Volunteer Opportunities
The NSS is a volunteer organization. Cavers who give their time and talents to the NSS are what make our Society tick. Some jobs can represent a long term commitment, others may be for a specific event or task that we need special expertise or a willing pair of hands to accomplish.
Is there an NSS program you'd like to become involved with? Not every committee position is listed on this web page! Committees nearly always need help and new blood, and often have projects on a list awaiting a volunteer. Contact an appropriate committee chairman or NSS Officer about taking on a project or joining a committee now. This is often how new NSS projects and programs develop and new committees are formed. It is also a part of how the Society remains a dynamic organization.
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Search Committee
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Listed below are current leadership opportunities that you can apply your time and talents to. Just click the job title for a complete description and contact. Please use the contact information provided in each job description to let us know that you can help!
| NSS News Editor | Social Media Committee Members |
| Volunteer Value Database Manager | |
The National Speleological Society is actively seeking an individual to fill the NSS News Editor Position. Responsibilities include content solicitation, composition and layout, advertising, printing subcontract management, and delivering 12 issues per year on time and within budget.
Interested candidates need to have excellent communication and time management skills. Editing, digital composition, and publication production experience are preferred. Love for all things cave, cavers, and the Society is required. As with all positions in the NSS, this is considered a volunteer position, however, it does come with a modest fixed monthly stipend to offset any potential incurred costs and partial time compensation.
To request more information or to submit a resume and qualifications for candidacy, please contact the Executive Vice President at evp@caves.org. (7/28/2022)
Social Media Committee Members
The social media committee seeks steady, calm, and thoughtful volunteers to represent the NSS by assisting with creating and posting content across our social networks, and by moderating discussions, comments, and group memberships. We especially need people who are enthusiastic users of Instagram and Twitter. Volunteers with social media and/or graphic design experience are encouraged to join the team! Please contact the Social Media Chair at socialmedia@caves.org for details. (11/12/2019)
Volunteer Value Database Manager
The NSS Conservation Division would like to add a Volunteer Value Database Manager to its team. If you have database skills and are interested in an contributing time and expertise to the NSS, please read on.
Cavers give more time, labor, and expertise, spend more of their own money, and are recognized, particularly by Federal Agencies, for having more project persistence than any other land-using group in America. A name has been coined all this donated effort: Volunteer Value.
Volunteer Value represents huge contributions to caves on private, state, and federal lands. Cavers give significantly to the protection, exploration, scientific investigation, conservation, and preservation of cave and karst resources, and through the Volunteer Value program this important work is quantified, recorded and recognized.
By assigning dollar values to the time and expertise volunteered, we can assess the value of the work cavers provide to public land managers and private landowners. This documentation can be used for grant application processes, cave management proposals, and karst protection efforts.
Three simple forms have been created for recording caver contributions to cave-related projects, and calculating Volunteer Value. Copies of the forms can accessed electronically through the NSS Web site, www.caves.org . Click on Conservation and then on Volunteer Value.
Now we would like to create a national database to handle volunteer information for inclusion in NSS Biennial Reports, funding applications, and cave protection and management efforts.
If you have expertise and interest in database projects, and would like to play a major role in expanding this program, please contact Jim Werker and Val Hildreth-Werker, NSS Conservation Division Co-Chairs, valhildrethwerker@caves.org
Do you want to volunteer for something not listed? Email our Volunteer Coordinator, Chelsea Ballard, at volunteer@caves.org
