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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 ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃand 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 ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃand 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 ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃis eligible to register the volunteering role/s for inclusion within the ANU+ Award Program.

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

1. ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃstaff (volunteer supervisors) email a position description for the volunteering role to the ANU+ team at student.life@anu.edu.au.
2. ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃstaff (volunteer supervisors) fill in , 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 ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃInsurance 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
• 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 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 .

• 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 .
• The supervisor of the student will ensure the student/s has completed University Work Health and Safety (WHS) Induction on .
• The supervisor of the student will provide the student/s a Tier 2 and/or Tier 3 induction (appendix B and/or C, .)
• The supervisor has completed a risk assessment (appendix B, ) 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 .