ANU+

The ANU+ award is a program that formally recognises students’ experiences and contributions achieved through volunteering. It encourages students to:

• give back and connect to the ANU and local Canberra community, 
• develop skills related to their future employability, and 
• reflect on their co-curricular experiences to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.

The ANU+ award is the University’s way of acknowledging the impact and importance of students engaging in co-curricular activities alongside their program of study at ANU.

ANU+ provides opportunities for students to connect with the ANU and local Canberra community, enhance their employability skills and build on their self-awareness and capacity to build skills for the future outside the classroom.

By registering your volunteering role with the ANU+ program, you are agreeing to abide by best practice principles developed between the ANU+ team, the university, and Volunteering ACT. Once your role has been reviewed and approved by the team you will be supporting your volunteers to complete volunteering hours for the ANU+ program.

Any staff member who supervises volunteers as part of an organised volunteering program in a College, School or Division at ANU is eligible to register the volunteering role/s for inclusion within the ANU+ Award Program.

There are two steps for ANU staff to register a volunteering role with ANU+ so that students can count hours towards their ANU+ timesheets:

1. ANU staff (volunteer supervisors) email a position description for the volunteering role to the ANU+ team at student.life@anu.edu.au.
2. ANU staff (volunteer supervisors) fill in this form, which includes information about the National Standards for Volunteer Involvement, as well as information about the requirement for volunteers to fill in a volunteer declaration form for the ANU Insurance Office.

Once we have received the position description and form submission, the role will be reviewed against the eligibility criteria and the WHS requirements . Following review, confirmation will be provided via email regarding whether the role may be counted towards ANU+.

• Be part of a University-run volunteering community
• Have a volunteer position description which includes the following:
  • A purpose statement
  • A role statement
  • What benefits the volunteer will gain in the role
  • Time commitment
  • Qualifications and experience needed (if any)
• Involve mandatory training to sufficiently prepare students to undertake the volunteering responsibilities
• Meet the National Standards for Volunteer Involvement
• The student/s has/have no expectation of payment
• The student is under no obligation to attend the workplace or perform volunteer work
• You have considered if the student volunteer/s require a Working With Vulnerable People (WWVP) card, based on the type(s) of activities that may occur.

Volunteer supervisors are responsible for:

• Training and supervising student volunteers and verifying the volunteer hours completed by the student as part of their role
• Signing student ANU+ timesheets (training does not count towards ANU+ hours)
• Ensuring the student completes a volunteer declaration form and sends a copy to the ANU Insurance Office.

• The supervisor of the student/s has completed WHS Risk Management Training, WHS Management System for Managers and Supervisors and Figtree Workplace Safety Incident & Hazard Reporting Tool on Pulse.
• The supervisor of the student will ensure the student/s has completed University Work Health and Safety (WHS) Induction on Pulse.
• The supervisor of the student will provide the student/s a Tier 2 and/or Tier 3 induction (appendix B and/or C, chapter 3.2 WHS Management System Handbook.)
• The supervisor has completed a risk assessment (appendix B, chapter 3.1 WHS Management System Handbook) and will provide any additional relevant training to the student/s based on the results.
• If the volunteering involves an event/function, the supervisor has referred to chapter 3.14 Event and Function Safety Management.