Personal Consultations Skilled Volunteers

The NCBC is blessed to have supporters and friends, including graduates of our National Catholic Certification in Health Care Ethics, who already have training and experience pertaining to one or more of the activity areas of the Personal Consultations Department. If you already have training and experience—which Internship and Fellowship candidates are typically seeking—and you are willing to make a stable commitment of your time and talent, you can help the Personal Consultations Department as a Skilled Volunteer! The activity areas are the following:

• Fielding consults - responding to consultation requests by email or phone

• Content curation - organizing existing consultation resources, creating new resources, in-depth review of consultation content, research with a view to formulating new guidance or refining existing NCBC guidance, publication of articles or books related to consultation content, and similar

• Operations - coordination of the consultation calendar, policies and procedures, orientation, contracts, record keeping, consultation data tracking and analysis, website management, and similar

• Personal engagement - collecting and responding to consultation feedback; digital marketing, media, social media, and other ways of reaching larger audiences; communications with potential and existing benefactors or other supporters; fielding information requests related to the Personal Consultations Department; and similar

Interested in helping out as a Skilled Volunteer?

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Skilled Volunteers

Skilled volunteers are unpaid and must commit to at least 5 hours per week for a period of 3 months or more. Beyond these basic parameters, skilled volunteer commitments are flexible and the terms will be finalized with the Personal Consultations Director. Skilled volunteer commitments are fully remote, but volunteers are always welcome to visit in person. While skilled volunteers will need orientation in order to work with NCBC, they already have experience that will require less training and oversight once orientation is complete.

Volunteer Ethics Consultant

(with a focus on fielding consults and/or content curation)

Open to anyone who (1) has completed the NCBC’s National Catholic Certification in Health Care Ethics; and/or (2) has completed a Doctoral or Master’s degree program or its equivalent in theology, philosophy, bioethics, or a related field; and (3) has at least two years of work experience relevant to fielding consults or content curation, e.g., health care ethics committee members, diocesan family and life office directors, university instructors of bioethics or moral theology, health care ethicists, etc. These volunteers will directly engage with bioethical issues, whether through consultations, research and writing, discussions, or similar activities.

Operations Volunteer

(with a focus on operations and/or personal engagement)

Open to anyone with a general interest in bioethics who (1) has completed a four-year undergraduate degree program; and (2) has at least two years of work experience relevant to operations or personal engagement, e.g., administrative assistants, website managers, communications and social media coordinators, etc. These volunteers will not engage directly with the bioethical issues but will be exposed to them indirectly through data management, coordination of consultations, follow-up with those aided by ethics consultations, testimonials, communication with benefactors, and similar activities.