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