Training and Volunteer Coordinator

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Volunteering and Training Coordinator to join the People Team at the Helen Bamber Foundation Group, supporting volunteers and staff across both the Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid. Volunteers play a critical role in improving outcomes for survivors, providing invaluable support across numerous areas, including as GPs, Assistant Psychologists and Yoga Teachers. The successful candidate will lead the recruitment, onboarding, support and development of over 30 volunteers at any given time, helping to ensure they have a positive experience while meaningfully contributing to the mission of the Group. They will also coordinate and support with the delivery of internal and external training, while contributing to the development and implementation of a new Group-wide training strategy.

HOW TO APPLY

The first stage is to complete on our online application form on our website by 10:00am Thursday 3rd Dec 2026.

The website form will ask you to:

• Upload a short covering letter. Please tell us why the position appeals to you, and how your relevant skills and experience, including any voluntary experience and lived experience, matches the listed responsibilities and person specification. Please also state in your covering letter when you would be available to start the role. This information can be shared in one of four different ways:

1. Written A4 (No more than 2 sides of A4)

2. PowerPoint (No more than 3 slides)

3. Audio recording (No more than 5 mins)*

4. Video Recording (No more than 5 mins)*

* * * if you send in your cover letter in one these formats, please do not upload this to our website but email it to us.

• Upload your current CV

• Complete an online Equal Opportunities monitoring form – completion of this form will help us ensure that our recruitment procedures operate in such a way as to provide genuine equality of opportunity. The questions are entirely optional and this information will not be available to members of the selection panel.

TIMELINE

Closing date: 10am on Thursday 3rd Dec 2026

Preliminary interviews (online): Tuesday 8th December or morning of Wednesday 9th December

Final panel interviews (in person): 16th or 17th December (to be confirmed)

ELIGIBILITY 

Please note that the successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK (as a small charity we do 
not have the capacity to sponsor work visas).
(Full details available on the Job Description) 

ADJUSTMENTS 

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll 
always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. If you require a different format of the application 
form, such as large print or Word format, or if you would like to discuss any specific requirements, please 
get in touch with us at via email. 

EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE SUPPORT

We are also proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network, which aims to increase representation of people with lived experience in the charitable sector.

If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network and access other information and resources by vsiting their website. You can also request 121 interview mentoring ahead of your interview.