Mark Brennan, AVI volunteer and Prosecutions Mentor with Senior Legal Officer Elma Veenah Rizzu, Solomon Island.
Corporate Partnerships
Employee engagement at
a whole new level.
AVI’s experiential learning and skilled volunteering products are designed to help you address the attraction, engagement and retention demands of the new century.
We adapt and scale your programs to the level of support and engagement you need to meet your objectives.
Programs with purpose for leadership development and employee engagement.
Choose from in-country, remote or a combination.
International skilled volunteering and experiential learning is growing among Australian companies in line with increased global awareness and citizenship.
Leaders and employees are increasingly looking for programs with meaning and tangible outcomes for both the employee and the organisation, that not only provide reciprocal learning but improve an organisation’s diversity and inclusion capabilities.
“Meaning is a stronger predictor of happiness than pleasure across all cultures. This is where international volunteering shines brightest, with many purposely seeking out employers that offer the type of meaningful leadership and retention programs that international volunteering provides.”
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report
Your Program, Your Way
Geoff Dean (Australian volunteer Sustainable Farming Mentor) with Paula Mama, a farmer at Lavena, Taveuni
Our white-labelled experiential learning and skilled volunteering products are tailored to help achieve your unique business objectives and employee expectations.
With our experience in designing and delivering quality and ethical cross-cultural experiences, and mobilising hundreds of volunteers every year, AVI is well placed to support organisations in strengthening their capacities and meeting high industry standards.
Our corporate partners benefit from a flexible and scalable solution, that:
– Allows you to brand and promote the program, both internally and externally, as your own.
– Has the support of AVI experts through some or every stage of your process, you choose.
– Draws from a large network of development partners to find a program that suits you.
– Is a locally driven, strengths-based approach matched to your objectives.
– Receives promotion through AVI’s website and social media.
– Is fully monitored and evaluated for outcome measurement and continuous improvement.
– Is underpinned by respect for the universal protection of human rights.
AVI’s four-stage process
DESIGN
Help to assess and design your program, aligning to your organisational values, objectives and the skills learners and volunteers will share.
EQUIP
Help to equip and build capabilities among your co-ordinators and staff. This includes assessing and preparing your volunteers.
Your team receives ‘Train the Trainer’ and engaging, best-practice pre-departure preparation to help build your in-house capabilities, leveraging from AVIs extensive field experience coving subjects such as: child safe-guarding, cultural awareness, personal safety and security.
SUPPORT
Our support continues throughout the learner and volunteer’s journey, with compliance and security central, we are on the ground to help. We make sure that your corporate program is well managed and is achieving outcomes for both you and the community you’re supporting.
REFLECT
Coming home can sometimes be the hardest part of an international experience. Reflection workshops are a great way to guide volunteers through their journey home, prepare them for possible reverse culture shock and help them maximise the learnings to support their career journey on the longer term.
You receive a report on outcomes using our monitoring and evaluation framework.
Contact us to discuss how we can help.
