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Safeguarding Codesign - Volunteer Form

The information collected in the form below will be used to manage your role as an FYA volunteer. There are three sections to this form. If you are unsure about any of the questions, reach out to your FYA Program contact or contact Operations Director, Ruairidh Bevan at info@fya.org.au

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Personal Details

This helps us understand the best way to address each other and respects the wonderful gender diversity in our community. If you'd prefer not to write your pronouns, you can select "prefer only being referred to as my name".

Volunteer Role

Please include contact's name, email and phone number.

Important information for FYA volunteers

Safety and wellbeing

FYA values the safety and wellbeing of its volunteers. Whilst volunteering at FYA as a speaker or interviewee, you will be covered by FYA’s volunteer insurance. For the safety and wellbeing of all those involved in FYA activities, FYA volunteers are required to:

  • understand and comply with FYA’s policies that relate to volunteers (these policies are available on the fya website ww.fya.org.au);
  • conduct themselves in a manner that does not pose a risk to their own health and safety or the health and safety of others;
  • behave in a professional and courteous manner at all times;
  • hold a valid Working with Children Check (VIC, NSW, WA, SA), Working with Children Clearance Notice/Ochre Card (NT) Working with Vulnerable People registration (ACT), Blue Card (QLD) or Registration to work with vulnerable people (TAS) when engaging in child related work;
  • notify FYA if they have been found guilty of a criminal offence or been dismissed as an employee or volunteer with another organisation following any allegation of misconduct prior to volunteering at FYA; and;
  • immediately notify FYA if they are found guilty of a criminal offence or have been dismissed as an employee or volunteer with another organisation following any allegation of misconduct while volunteering at FYA.
  • Confidentiality

    As a volunteer at FYA you may be provided with confidential information about the affairs of FYA, its staff or its programs (including any participants in such programs. Your are required to keep this confidential information strictly confidential and not to disclose it to any person without written permission from FYA.

    Intellectual property

    Any intellectual property developed by a volunteer whilst volunteering for FYA will be owned by FYA. This does not include intellectual property that was created by the volunteer before they began their volunteer engagement with FYA.

    Further reading about volunteers

    More information about volunteer rights and responsibilities can be found on Volunteering Australia’s website; volunteeringaustralia.org

Your Information

Privacy

We respect the privacy of our volunteers. The information collected in this form will be used to manage your volunteer engagement with FYA. More information about how FYA collects, uses, stores and discloses personal information about you, and how you can correct or make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, can be found in our privacy policy (http://www.fya.org.au/privacy-policy/).

Collecting personal information

My story, image and voice is my own and I give permission to the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) to collect information about me as part of [[PROGRAM]] by:

  • Interviewing me in person
  • Surveying me in writing
  • Taking photos of me
  • Taking an audio recording of me
  • Taking video footage / film of me
  • You can always contact us about how your information is used at privacy@fya.org.au

Use and sharing of personal information

I decide how other people use and share my story, image and voice. I agree that the information collected from me may be used by FYA:
I agree that the information collected from me may be shared:

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