Welcome to Volunteer and Leadership

Volunteer and Leadership Pro is an extension of Volunteer and Leadership's Digital Career Development Portfolio. V&L e-learns hone capabilities and deliver credentials that make it possible for job candidates to engage with local businesses. We encourage independent study, work study and internships with our business partners. These actions bring employment leads.

Volunteer

Volunteer and Leadership helps students manage service events, creating volunteering roles that serve others. V&L makes serving a breeze. The event is planned, and students are invited to join. The day prior to the event, they receive a text reminder of the time and location for transportation to the event. Once the event is completed, the student summarizes their experience in an easy, task-driven format and submits! Hours are automatically calculated in the system for reporting.

Academics

Volunteer and Leadership delivers checklists with every event to ensure an enriched user experience. Built in functions are designed to develop Micro-Credential skills simply by using V&L. Students will also acquire skills outside the school core curriculum in our e-learn programs. Leadership and service activities reinforce skills learned through Micro-Credential achievements. Competencies like soft skills, career planning, financial literacy, project management, marketing and sales, budgeting and more are ultimately acquired in our e-learns and validated through our Micro-Credential program.

Leadership

Volunteer and Leadership events are led by student volunteers and approved by school adult leaders. For student leaders, the V&L platform provides checklists with step-by-step guidelines for the creation and coordination of events. This includes using soft skills to plan and receive approval for the event from an adult leader, gather a student planning team including marketing and transportation managers, and student participants. Once the event takes place, the system gives options, like event recurrence, making it easy to plan the next event.

Unite

More than 6 million high schools students move every two years; and the V&L connection moves with them providing instant belonging, consistency and connections the first day they step into a new school. V&L LINK connects transitioning students with like-minded kids and students familiar with their new school. By organizing study tables after school or providing one-on-one tutoring V&L will immediately aid the new student. Students carry their profile from one school to another and maintain connections with former classmates, business contacts, and teachers.

Employ

Skills acquired through e-learns and Volunteer and Leadership's Micro-Credential Program are mastered through our volunteer service opportunities, independent study, business internship and Co-oP business engagements. These skills and connections deliver students employment opportunities and leads within their chosen industries and career.

The Challenge

In order to meet increasing demand in the face of a shrinking supply of experienced personnel, the Maritime Industrial Complex needs to:

  • Ramp-up hiring & on-boarding of Qualified People
  • While assuring Safety & Quality of the fleet & the force
  • And moving Delivery & Cost MOE’s (Maintenance and Operating Expenses) in the right direction

Qualifying People

In order to meet increasing demand in the face of a shrinking supply of experienced personnel, the Maritime Industrial Complex needs to:

  • Ramp-up hiring & on-boarding of Qualified People:
  • Pre-Hire:
    • A Digital Career Development Portfolio that stores a candidate’s identification, Transportation Worker Identity Card (TWIC), certificates, course transcripts, letters of reference and resume in a secure cyber bunker, and can be accessed only by the candidates, their instructors or their potential employers on a need-to-know basis. 
    • Included is a Dynamic Application System that provides a comprehensive, standardized application format that can be used by all participating maritime companies
    • Online testing is provided for soft skills, personal financial management, skills competencies and ACT’s NCRC.

Continuous Training

In order to meet increasing demand in the face of a shrinking supply of experienced personnel, the Maritime Industrial Complex needs to:

  • Assure Safety & Quality of the fleet & the workforce force through:
    • Continuous training:
      • to include continuing education, cross-training and periodic reviews and recommendations
    • Post Hire:
      • Soft Skills Touches
      • Personal Financial Literacy Touches
      • Tools of the Trade
      • Reinforcing Skills
      • Internal Transition

Professional Leadership & Employee Exchange

In order to meet increasing demand in the face of a shrinking supply of experienced personnel, the Maritime Industrial Complex needs to:

  • Assure Safety & Quality of the fleet & the workforce force through:
    • Professional Leadership & Employee Exchange (PLEX)
      • provides a national pool of trained and certified employees who can move from job-to-job, shipyard-to-shipyard, or from prime-to-sub to meet the demand for a flexible and mobile workforce that is willing and able to move to where the work demands. 

Optimizing Maintenance and Operating Expenses

In order to meet increasing demand in the face of a shrinking supply of experienced personnel, the Maritime Industrial Complex needs to:

  • Move Delivery & Cost MOE’s (Maintenance and Operating Expenses) in the right direction
  • Align with V&L Pro to Design, Deliver and Support a Digital Workbook for Maintenance, Retrofit and Modernization

One Shipyard

V&L Pro can Develop, Implement, and Support a Virtual “One-Shipyard” System That:

  • Automates required instructions & forms for the planned work
  • Securely presents & captures information at the point of impact
  • Systematically responds to vessel condition reporting to assure repair optimization is identified and managed effectively
  • Prevents common causes of errors, omissions & rework:
    • Missing process steps and/or sign-offs
    • Inaccurate documentation
    • Out-of-tolerance repair conditions
  • Create standardized electronic workbooks throughout the enterprise
  • Seamlessly transcends both public/private yards

One Railyard

Global railcar leasing & repair company — 115,000 car fleet

  • Diversity of:
    • Fleet configurations
    • Repair shop network (both owned & contract repair facilities)
    • Workforce experience & operating practices
  • Developed a shared, mobile web application that:
    • Generated inspection & repair forms based on specific railcar planned maintenance programs & customer requirements
    • Responded to new information as it was identified during repair event
    • Assured accurate completion of the forms package prior to release
    • Provided contextual access to repair instructions & visual aids
    • Reported necessary changes & results to other internal & external industry systems

Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Conversion Services

We offer conversion as a customized service. It is not desirable to fully automate the conversion process:

  • Different customers have different quality standards and requirements
    • some customers want to maintain the look and feel of the originals,
    • others prefer to modify their documents and take full advantage of features only available in the target format
  • Customers are often unaware of many details in their originals: there will be unique documents that require unique processing methods
  • We use a continuous improvement method and must adjust different parameters during conversion
  • Some tasks can be automated, others require human interpretation and human quality control.

Our Approach to Conversion

  • We develop software to automate those aspects of conversion that can be automated.
  • A conversion “assembly line” with specified actors and roles
    • Managers supervise one or more conversion lines.
    • Document Designers use proprietary programs to perform conversion at high speed.
    • Accessibility Experts may add information required for Section 508 compliance.
    • Reviewers use proprietary programs to control the quality of the final product against customer standards
  • QA/QC tools are available to all agents: everybody participates in QA
  • Ultimately, the reviewer is responsible for overall quality
  • Modules are added or reassigned as per desired throughput
  • Optionally, customers may generate conversion reports in real time

Conceptual Modular DX Architecture

  • Business Process Services
  • Security Services
  • Device Management Services
  • Legacy Systems
  • Disaster Recovery Services
  • Document Conversion Services
  • Cognitive Services
  • Digital Access Management Services
  • Inventory Management Services
  • Records Management Services
  • Personnel Services



Contact:

For Information or to Schedule a Demonstration

V&L Pro, a division of Volunteer and Leadership, Inc.

P.O. Box 5, Dutton, VA 23050

(804) 977-3205


Laura Walker

Phone: (804) 894-9205

Email: laura.walker@volunteerandleadership.com