Volunteering in an association

This branch covers a member giving their time to the work of a professional association, and its parts divide by the question a volunteer asks along the way: what volunteering returns and what the association asks in exchange, and how to find a specific role and what it will ask. It leaves to its neighbours taking part in a local chapter and recruiting its volunteers and officers, to local groups of writers; the named jobs on a conference programme and reporting a session, to presenting, reporting or volunteering at a conference; proposing and leading a workshop in an association's programme, to getting a workshop into an association's programme; starting and running a special interest group, to special interest groups in an association; what an association's journal publishes and how to submit to it, to writing for an association's journal; putting yourself forward for an association's awards, to entering a writing or publication competition; and finding a mentor through an association, to finding a mentor.

• What volunteering for an association returns — what the work shows an employer or a client, the writing, editing, liaising, organisational and leadership skills it develops, and the time an association relies on its members to give
• Finding a specific volunteer role in an association — why having joined recently or not being a native speaker of English does not disqualify a member, the work volunteers do across an association, where the openings are published, what the standing call for volunteers lists and the calls beside it, how workshop, webinar, ambassador and article roles are entered, routes in that do not wait for a vacancy, from a chapter's leaders to a conference to local networking, and the commitment a role asks