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Join Our Team: Team Leader - 12 months fixed term opportunity.

Navigate your future and lock in your career as we keep our canals open and alive.

Help unlock the potential of volunteers supporting one of the UK's most significant waterways heritage collections.

This is a unique opportunity to work alongside volunteers who help care for, document, conserve and share the Canal & River Trust's National Collections. From collections audits and digitisation projects to historic vessels, steam engines and conservation activities, no two days are the same.

Working Hours & Location

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week.

The Volunteering Leader will be based at Ellesmere Port, home to the National Waterways Museum and a significant part of the Trust's National Collections. Regular travel will be required to support volunteers and activities at our other National Collections sites, including Gloucester and Stoke Bruerne.

A full UK driving licence is essential.

Role Overview

As Volunteering Leader, you will lead, coordinate and support a growing community of volunteers who make a vital contribution to the care, conservation and interpretation of the Canal & River Trust's National Collections.
Working closely with Collections Officers, Technicians and the wider Heritage & Collections team, you'll spend much of your time working directly alongside volunteers, providing practical support, guidance and supervision while helping to create a positive, rewarding and inclusive volunteering experience.
Our volunteers bring a wide range of skills and experience, supporting everything from collections documentation, audits and digitisation to collections care, conservation, historic vessels and the operation and maintenance of historic steam and diesel engines.
You'll help ensure these activities are well planned and delivered safely, with a strong focus on volunteer wellbeing, health and safety, safeguarding and compliance.

What We Offer

In addition to your annual base salary of £29,670, we also offer a competitive pension scheme, increasing holiday entitlement, and a range of employee benefits.