What are Organization Qualifications?

Use Qualifications at the Organization level to tag Volunteers with a certain skill-set or attribute.

Organization Qualifications, like Opportunity Qualifications, act as tags that can help identify if Volunteer meets a particular requirement. Organization Qualifications, however, can only be managed from the Organization level, by Organization Managers.

To create a new Qualification at the Organization level:

  1. From your organization, navigate to the Qualifications tab.
  2. Click Create new Qualification.

Screenshot of Organizations > Qualifications with arrows pointing to the main navigation item "Qualifications" and "Create New Qualification" button.

Along with filling out some basic information, you will have to set the 'Qualification Setting' and 'Opportunity Setting'. The 'Qualification Setting' determines the visibility of the Qualification.

  • Public: Anyone, including Volunteers, is able to see and select the Qualification during the registration process.
  • Private: It must be appointed by an Organization Manager but it will still be visible to qualified Volunteers.
  • Hidden: The Qualification is never visible to Volunteers, even when appointed to them.
The Opportunity Settings for your Organization Qualifications allow you to determine whether or not the Qualification should be accessible at the Opportunity level, at which point they can be assigned to Opportunity Volunteers. Without allowing Opportunity Managers to view the Qualification, it can never be used within an Opportunity and is only visible to Organization Managers.
Screenshot of Create Organization Qualification window.

Now that you've created Organization Qualifications, learn how to manage your Opportunity Qualifications .