View, Assign, or Manage Volunteer Follow-Up Actions

The follow-up management system is a feature within CERVIS that is essentially a task manager to track follow-ups and/or assign them to different staff members. Follow-ups can be manually added or you can enable a setting in the System Configuration to automatically generate them for new volunteers.

Any CERVIS user with the Administrator, Leadership Team, or Group Leader access level, may be assigned a follow-up action within CERVIS.

To CREATE a volunteer follow-up assignment:

1. Login to your CERVIS account.
2. Click on the "View/Manage Volunteer Follow-up" link under the "Volunteer Management" section of the Main Dashboard.
3. Click "Add New Follow-up" under the "Standard Options" section of the page.
4. In the "Follow-up With" field, enter the last name of the volunteer that needs to be contacted to have their question answered or their issue resolved, then click on their name when it appears. This field will perform a lookup of every profile in the system. If they do not already have a profile in the system, you can create one for them by clicking on the "Add Volunteer Profile" button () to the right of the field.
5. In the "Follow-up Assigned To" field, enter the last name of the CERVIS user that will be taking the required action to contact the volunteer from step 4 to answer their question or resolve their issue, then click on their name when it appears. This field will perform a lookup of users with either the Administrator, Leadership Team, or Group Leader access level only.
6. In the "Follow-up Description" field, enter a brief description of what the follow-up assignment is regarding. 
7. Click the "Assign Follow-up" button to complete the assignment.

Once the follow-up assignment has been created, when the user from step 5 above logs in to their CERVIS account, the icon next to “View / Manage Volunteer Follow-up” on the Main Dashboard will be glowing to notify them of the required follow-up action.

To REASSIGN a follow-up action to a different staff member, follow the steps below:

1. Login to your CERVIS account.
2. Click on the "View/Manage Volunteer Follow-up" link under the "Volunteer Management" section of the Main Dashboard.
3. Click on the "Reassign Follow-up" icon () in the "Follow-up Assigned To" column next to the current staff member to whom the follow-up is assigned.
4. Select the Administrator, Leadership Team member, or Group Leader to whom you would like to assign it from the selection list.
5. Click "Reassign Follow-up" to complete the action.

To COMPLETE the follow-up action when it has been performed, the assigned user will need to follow the steps below:

1. Login to your CERVIS account.
2. Click on the "View/Manage Volunteer Follow-up" link under the "Volunteer Management" section of the Main Dashboard.
3. Click the checkbox(es) for each follow-up item that has been completed and needs to be closed.
• NOTE: CERVIS users with the Administrator access level will be able to view and manage all pending follow-up actions present in the system. CERVIS users assigned either the Leadership Team or Group Leader access levels will only be able to view and manage follow-up actions assigned directly to them.
4. Enter a brief description of what actions were done to complete the follow-up action in the "Follow-up Notes" field.
5. Click the "Complete Follow-up Action" button to mark the follow-up action as closed. Once the follow-up action has been closed, the follow-up will be removed from this list, and a note will be added to the volunteer's profile under the "Notes" section with information regarding who completed the follow-up and what action was taken.

Besides manually creating a volunteer follow-up, the System Configuration also gives you some options for volunteer follow-ups to be automatically created. The options from the System Settings section of the System Configuration are listed below:

• Auto-Assign Follow-up for New Volunteers: By selecting “Yes,” a volunteer follow-up will automatically be created every time a new volunteer creates a profile. The follow-up will be assigned to the person whose name is selected in the box.

• Send Auto E-mail Notification of Follow-up Assignment: By selecting “Yes,” an email will automatically be sent to the person who has a new follow-up action assigned to them. The action will notify them of this new follow-up and prompt them to login to CERVIS and complete it. By selecting “No,” the person who has a new follow-up action assigned to them will be notified the next time they log into CERVIS by the icon next to “View / Manage Volunteer Follow-up” on the Main Dashboard glowing, and not an email.

• Interest Category Contact Person Notification Method: By selecting “Assign CERVIS Follow-up,” when a volunteer adds a new Interest Category to their profile, a volunteer follow-up is automatically assigned to the Interest Category Contact Person. To add or update the Interest Category Contact Person, follow the steps to update and Interest Category in the knowledge base article HERE.