Community service volunteer vs liaison

The differences between community service volunteers and liaisons can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 6-12 months to become both a community service volunteer and a liaison. Additionally, a liaison has an average salary of $53,737, which is higher than the $26,775 average annual salary of a community service volunteer.

The top three skills for a community service volunteer include community outreach, child care and mathematics. The most important skills for a liaison are patients, customer service, and home health.

Community service volunteer vs liaison overview

	Community Service Volunteer	Liaison
Yearly salary	$26,775	$53,737
Hourly rate	$12.87	$25.84
Growth rate	12%	12%
Number of jobs	19,389	34,074
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	12	12

What does a community service volunteer do?

A community service volunteer is responsible for engaging and assisting in community service events, learning the society's norms, helping to enhance the citizens' lives, building relationships, and understanding the status of the community. A community service volunteer supports various activities of different purpose, coordinates with nonprofit organizations to request funding and donation programs, and identifies additional resources to provide the needs of the citizens. Community service volunteers must have excellent communication and organizational skills to perform their societal responsibilities.

What does a liaison do?

A liaison is a middle person responsible for collaborating different institutes, managing professional relationships to create benefiting results that would help a business' meet its goals and objectives. Duties of a liaison include facilitating communications, establishing partnership contract plans and procedures, managing conflicts, providing immediate resolution for concerns, and evaluating collaboration parameters. A liaison must be highly knowledgeable about the subject matters of the represented organization, handling inquiries, and coming up with strategic solutions to make the project successful.

Community service volunteer vs liaison salary

Community service volunteers and liaisons have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Community Service Volunteer	Liaison
Average salary	$26,775	$53,737
Salary range	Between $22,000 And $32,000	Between $30,000 And $95,000
Highest paying City	-	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	Apple
Best paying industry	-	Manufacturing

Differences between community service volunteer and liaison education

There are a few differences between a community service volunteer and a liaison in terms of educational background:

	Community Service Volunteer	Liaison
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Southern California	Northwestern University

Community service volunteer vs liaison demographics

Here are the differences between community service volunteers' and liaisons' demographics:

	Community Service Volunteer	Liaison
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 38.5% Female, 61.5%	Male, 41.9% Female, 58.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 12.5% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 19.3% Asian, 6.7% White, 54.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.2%	Black or African American, 12.3% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 18.2% Asian, 6.9% White, 55.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.2%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between community service volunteer and liaison duties and responsibilities

Community service volunteer example responsibilities.

Lead bible study for 5th and 6th grade girls every Friday morning before school
Manage day-to-day operations including contract management, accounts payable, receivables, payroll and general administrative assistance.
Develop and maintain relationships with the alumni, staff, faculty, student body and vendors.
Coordinate and help teach adult ESL classes.
Establish a bi-weekly ESL conversation group for foreign students.
Tutor students in mathematics, reading, grammar, and social studies.

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Liaison example responsibilities.

Manage and increase social activity of the WVUncovered twitter account.
Manage and create original content for all social media platforms (twitter, instagram, tumblr).
Manage social media outlets for the organization; such as Facebook, update weekly status and weekly inspirational videos.
Educate physician group practices to reduce hospitalizations, increase positive patient outcomes & achieve meaningful use of EMR systems.
Perform assessments on ICU patients and market to many members of the health care team.
Work predominantly ICU cases, acquiring considerable experience with high-level complex patients.

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Community service volunteer vs liaison skills

Common community service volunteer skills

Community Outreach, 18%
Child Care, 9%
Mathematics, 7%
Local Community, 6%
PowerPoint, 6%
Community Health, 5%

Common liaison skills

Patients, 24%
Customer Service, 14%
Home Health, 10%
Rehabilitation, 5%
Social Work, 5%
Patient Care, 5%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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