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As Voluntary Services Manager, you’ll shape and deliver an ambitious, inclusive and forward-thinking volunteering strategy that sits at the heart of our hospice’s mission.
This is more than a leadership role—it’s an opportunity to champion the power of volunteering, elevate its impact across our organisation, and create meaningful experiences for the people who give their time to support our work.
Acting as a visible advocate for volunteering, you’ll work across teams and within the community to grow engagement, diversify participation, and embed volunteering as a vital part of how we deliver our services.
From attracting new volunteers to ensuring they feel valued, supported and inspired to stay, you’ll oversee the full volunteer lifecycle—creating an experience that is seamless, rewarding and sustainable.
What you’ll do:
✅ Lead and deliver a strategic, inclusive volunteering programme, overseeing the full lifecycle from attraction through to retention and ensuring a high-quality, safe and rewarding experience.
✅ Develop, inspire and manage the Voluntary Services team while championing volunteering across the organisation and amplifying the voice of volunteers.
✅ Drive engagement, growth and diversity by creating innovative opportunities, strengthening partnerships and increasing community involvement.
✅ Use data, systems and insight to continuously improve the programme, inform decision-making and maximise volunteer impact and retention.
We’re looking for someone who is:
A confident, people-focused leader with a passion for volunteering and community impact. You bring both strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, and you’re comfortable influencing at all levels.
You’ll have:
- Experience leading volunteer programmes or similar people-focused services
- A strong track record of developing inclusive, engaging initiatives
- Confidence working with data, systems and insight to drive improvement
- Strong relationship-building skills, internally and externally
- A genuine belief in the value and potential of volunteering
We provide free, compassionate care to adults in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas living with a life-limiting illness.


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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Location: Hybrid (minimum of two days in the office (119 Britannia Walk, London N1 7JE))
Salary: 45k per annum
Role Status: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 28 Jun 2026 - Applications will be reviewed as received and the role may close early
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Membership Engagement Manager to join CIHT on a 12-month maternity cover contract.
Leading a small, dedicated team, you will oversee membership operations and work collaboratively across the organisation to ensure our members receive excellent service and meaningful opportunities to engage.
This is a high-impact role where you will make a tangible difference over the next 12 months—strengthening member engagement and retention while contributing directly to CIHT’s ongoing digital and CRM transformation programme.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading engagement and retention initiatives and campaigns
- Improving the member journey and experience
- Supporting a strong regional and volunteer network
- Using CRM and data insight to improve performance
- Using data and CRM insight to drive decisions and improve performance
- Contributing to our digital and CRM transformation work
- Managing and supporting a small, collaborative team
About you
- Experience in membership, engagement or relationship management
- Strong CRM and data capability
- Experience leading and supporting teams and working with stakeholders
- Collaborative, organised and focused on delivery
Other requirements
• Willingness to travel within the UK with occasional overnight stays and occasional work outside standard office hours
• Commitment to and support of equality, diversity and inclusion and understanding of how this applies to delivery of own area of work
• Commitment to the aims, values and charitable objectives of CIHT
A great opportunity to make a visible difference to member experience and engagement over the next 12 months.
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This is an18 month fixed term opportunity to take ownership of the volunteer experience behind one of the UK’s most recognised fundraising campaigns. As Volunteer Experience Manager, you’ll shape how thousands of volunteers feel, engage and stay connected throughout their journey with the Poppy Appeal. From impactful national communications and volunteer storytelling to improving onboarding and retention, this is a role for someone who knows how to create experiences that people genuinely want to be part of. You’ll understand how the right message, delivered at the right time, can turn a volunteer into a long-term advocate, and you’ll constantly be looking for smarter, more engaging ways to connect with people at scale.
Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life.
We’re looking for someone who combines creativity with commercial awareness and can confidently influence change across a large, fast-paced operation. You’ll work closely with marketing, digital and fundraising teams, as well as Poppy Appeal Managers across the UK, using insight and feedback to continuously improve the volunteer journey. Whether it’s refining recruitment campaigns, simplifying processes, improving communications or introducing new ideas to boost engagement, you’ll have the freedom to challenge the status quo and make a visible impact. Strong copywriting skills, confidence using CRM and digital marketing tools, and the ability to turn data into action will all be key to success in this role.
This role would suit someone who thrives on building relationships, spotting opportunities and creating campaigns and experiences that genuinely resonate with people. You’ll bring experience in supporter engagement, volunteer or donor retention, and national-scale recruitment activity, alongside the confidence to influence stakeholders at all levels. Most importantly, you’ll be someone who understands what motivates people to give their time, and how to keep them inspired, informed and connected long after they first sign up.
You will be contracted to your home address, and you will perform most of your work remotely there using our collaboration tools to work with colleagues, with occasional travel (incl. for monthly team meetings).
Employee benefits include -
- 28 day’s paid holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with optional annual leave purchase scheme of up to 5 working days
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Generous pension contributions, with Employer contributions ranging from 6% to 10%
- Range of flexible working options may be available, depending on your role
- Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Range of courses delivered by learning specialists to support your development goals and objectives
- Opportunities to volunteer
- Travel loans, Cycle to Work, and more!
For more detailed information about the role, please see the Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert. Our teams take a personalised approach to shortlisting, which is carried out without the use of AI and is based on the evidence provided in your application against the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interview schemes for candidates who declare an Armed Forces connection and/or a disability. However, candidates are only eligible for this scheme if their application clearly demonstrates that they meet all of the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification for the role.
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We are recruiting for a Student Belonging Co-ordinator to be located on our London Campus of Glasgow Caledonian University. You would have experience of being a volunteer at university, in organising events and activities, should be motivated to support students and to develop our students as leaders within our communities. We want to nurture a sense of belonging on the London Campus. You should have a positive, welcoming and can do attitude.
We are interested in capable employees of any age and welcome applications from people from a range of backgrounds, to reflect the diversity of our members. We want to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment.
Employees receive 46 days annual leave (that includes bank holidays) and we have other enhanced benefits and policies to support employee wellbeing, care responsibilities and flexible working. You may work from home at least one day per week during teaching weeks and two days outside of teaching weeks.
Read our Mission, Vision and Values, Governance and Democracy Structure and Competency Framework on our website to better understand us, the behaviours we seek and how we operate as a student-led organisation.
To apply please submit your Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (available from our website) and submit by Monday 22nd June 2026 at 12noon. The anticipated interview date is Tuesday 7th July 2026 on the London Campus.
GCU Students' Association exists to represent and support GCU students to have the best university experience.
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Wimbledon Guild is a community charity offering practical help and support, so
that no one in Merton has to face life’s challenges alone. Whether money’s tight,
someone is feeling low or overwhelmed, or they’re looking for new friends and
activities locally, we’re always here.
At Wimbledon Guild, our team of over 200 volunteers makes a real difference, supporting
and connecting with people of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences across Merton.
Their support is truly invaluable, and we’re looking for a Volunteer Programme Manager to
help us continue creating an inclusive and forward-thinking volunteering culture.
In this role, the Volunteer Programme Manager will collaborate with six internal departments
as well as our Marketing and Communications team to champion best practices in volunteer
management.
The role involves overseeing recruitment, training, supporting, and supervising our incredible
volunteers, making sure they feel empowered and valued every step of the way.
In return, Wimbledon Guild offers a welcoming and supportive working environment with
opportunities for professional development.
Wimbledon Guild is a community charity in Merton offering practical help and support, so you’ll never have to face life’s challenges alone.



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Job Title: Volunteer Manager – Southern Central
Reporting To: Head of Volunteering
Salary Range: £25,000 - £26,700
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Unit 1 Sunset Business Park, Brunel Road / Nutwood Way, Calmore Industrial Estate Totton Hampshire SO40 3WX
Hours/Days per week: 35 hours per week, 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday.
Requirements: We can only employ applicants who currently have the right to work in the UK. As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent criminal records.
About Us
The Felix Project and FareShare have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry.
The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives.
The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK.
Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.
Duties and Responsibilities
•Responsible for the end-to-end volunteer experience at the Southern Central Depot
•Recruit, induct, and support volunteers
•Handle individual volunteers’ queries and issues
•Carry out administrative tasks including using the Volunteer Management System in Microsoft Dynamics. Report on and utilise the data to make positive changes
•Manage volunteer feedback and implement effective problem-solving techniques and strategies
•Develop and deliver volunteer recruitment campaigns
•Support volunteer events for recruitment and recognition
•Lead the implementation of volunteer-related policies and continuous improvement initiatives locally
•Support other teams across the organisation to develop skillsets to better support volunteers across the organisation
•Act as a local ambassador for the organisation
Person Specification
You will be excellent people manager, love working with a wide variety of people and be able to quickly build deep and positive relationships in a volunteer-centric organisation. You will want to spend time with the volunteers and get to know their experience and perspective. You are highly organised, data and IT savvy, efficient with your time, and you are used to prioritising tasks and making a difference wherever you go. You have a passion for being in a charity that is expanding rapidly and thriving in a busy environment. You will have a desire to help reduce food waste and/or fight food poverty.
Recruitment timeline
We reserve the right to close advertisements early and we might assess candidates and arranging interview as applications come in, so please apply as soon as possible, to avoid missing out on this opportunity.
Due to the anticipated large number of applicants, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of your application, we regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful. Consequently, will not be able to provide feedback.
We deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.



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Purpose of job
To lead and develop BucksVision’s approach to volunteer involvement across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, ensuring volunteers are recruited, trained, supported and retained to help deliver high-quality services for people with sight loss.
The Volunteer Manager provides guidance and support to staff, volunteers and local groups, helping BucksVision maintain a safe, confident and sustainable volunteer base.
Impact
BucksVision relies on over 280 volunteers to support people with sight loss across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. Volunteers are central to the charity’s ability to maintain existing services, respond to local need and develop new opportunities.
The Volunteer Manager plays a key role in ensuring BucksVision has a safe, effective and sustainable volunteer base. This includes improving recruitment, supporting retention, strengthening volunteer practice and helping staff and volunteer leaders to manage volunteer involvement confidently and consistently.
Decision making responsibility
The Volunteer Manager is the organisational lead for volunteer involvement and is expected to make day-to-day decisions relating to volunteer recruitment, onboarding, training, support, retention and safe practice.
The postholder will use professional judgement to resolve volunteer-related issues, advise colleagues, identify risks and escalate safeguarding, performance or conduct concerns where appropriate.
Main accountabilities
To work in partnership with the Chief Executive and Operations Manager to lead and develop volunteer involvement across BucksVision, ensuring recruitment, onboarding, training, support, retention are delivered in line with BucksVision’s strategic outcomes.
This includes:
- Leading the recruitment, selection and onboarding of volunteers across BucksVision, ensuring applicants are matched to suitable roles and have a positive, accessible and inclusive experience.
- Strengthening volunteer retention by helping to create a positive volunteer experience through clear communication, recognition, feedback and practical problem-solving.
- Line managing three members of staff working with volunteers.
- Providing guidance to staff, social club volunteers, divisional volunteers and volunteer leaders on volunteer involvement, role boundaries, expectations, good practice and safe working.
- Designing, delivering and coordinating training for staff and volunteers, including induction, safeguarding, health and safety, sighted guiding, role boundaries and volunteer management good practice.
- Helping to resolve issues relating to volunteer involvement, including conduct, accessibility, safeguarding, expectations and role boundaries, escalating concerns where appropriate.
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An opportunity is available to join a well-established large London focused community charity. You will be leading two officers as the Volunteer Manager, supporting and developing volunteering across a city borough to strengthen communities.
The role:
As Volunteer Manager, you will lead the training and capacity building of organisations to build volunteer management best practice in their operations and work with partners to align services. Oversee your project team, including division of responsibilities and tasks. Support the Programme Manager to manage client / funder relationships, including meeting attendance where required, collating impact data and drafting funder reports. Manage project budgets and financial reporting.
Essential criteria
- Knowledgeable in volunteering best practice
- Experience coordinating or managing a volunteer programme
- Track record in onboarding and training volunteers
- Strong team leadership coordination and person management skills
- Natural relationship builder and excellent communication ability
Contract: Fixed term, likely to extend
Closing date: 4th June
If this sounds like the role for you, then we would love to hear back. We are reviewing CVs as and when we are receiving them so, if you are keen to apply, then please do so today!
TPP are always keen to speak with candidates looking to work in the sector so if this role isn’t quite right for you, please do check out our website www.tpp.co.uk and pop your CV over to us!
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
To improve and strengthen the organisation’s volunteering programme by putting clear policies, systems
and processes in place, so managers can confidently recruit, welcome, support and keep volunteers in
their own teams.
To develop our volunteering offer by strengthening volunteer recruitment, support and retention, while
increasing the diversity of our volunteer pool and removing barriers to participation for underrepresented
communities. This includes support managers to create meaningful, accessible opportunities that reflect
the communities we serve.
To ensure volunteers are effectively integrated across organisational services, providing valuable support
to staff teams and enhancing service delivery. The postholder will promote a positive culture of
volunteering, ensuring volunteers feel valued, included and well supported.
There will be a lot of opportunity to make your mark, deliver change and support a very willing and
enthusiastic team to develop together. We’ll expect a great deal of you but in return you’ll be well
supported, invested-in and given lots of opportunity to learn and grow as an organisational leader.
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Help shape the future of volunteering at Samaritans.
At Samaritans, volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. As the needs of communities evolve, we need to rethink how people connect, contribute and make a difference. We’re looking for a Volunteering Innovation Advisor to help us explore, test and embed new approaches to volunteering for the years ahead.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is curious about emerging trends and motivated to find ways to reach people who do not currently volunteer with Samaritans. You’ll help develop new and more flexible models of volunteering—looking beyond our existing approaches to remove barriers, engage different audiences, and create opportunities that are both meaningful and sustainable.
This role is focused on developing new ways of attracting volunteers, with an emphasis on reaching new audiences and exploring different approaches.
Contract
- £30,000–£33,000 per annum plus benefits
- Full time (35 hours per week)
- Permanent
- Hybrid working with travel to Ewell office
- In-person working: Meeting in person and working collaboratively are things we value. We ask you to work in person around 2 days or more per month.
- We are passionate about flexible working—talk to us about your preferences
What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll bring ideas to life by exploring how volunteering needs to evolve. You’ll research emerging trends and changing expectations to help shape new roles, opportunities and approaches to volunteering—particularly focused on attracting and engaging new volunteers to Samaritans.
You’ll use insight to design and test new ways of reaching different audiences, removing barriers to involvement, and creating more flexible and inclusive opportunities. This isn’t about refining what already exists—it’s about developing and trying new approaches that will help us grow and diversify our volunteer community.
You’ll help answer questions like:
• How can Samaritans offer more flexible and inclusive opportunities?
• What motivates volunteers today, and how is that changing?
• How do we ensure our volunteering reflects the diversity of the communities we support?
From gathering and interpreting insight to shaping ideas, planning projects and working with colleagues and volunteers, your role will be to turn thinking into action—helping to build a more inclusive, future-focused approach to volunteering across the organisation.
What You’ll Bring
- Curiosity and openness to innovation, with experience of exploring new ways of working
- Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of people, including staff and volunteers
- Ability to use research and insight to inform decisions and shape new approaches
- Experience of contributing to change, improvement or innovation projects
- Experience in a volunteering-focused organisation, with an understanding of volunteer engagement, including how to reach and involve different audiences
Full Job Description and Person Specification below
Why Samaritans?
At Samaritans, you’ll be part of a people-first organisation deeply committed to inclusion, compassion and learning. You’ll contribute to a team where your voice matters, your expertise makes a difference, and your work helps save lives.
We welcome applications from individuals with lived experience and encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. We are committed to creating an environment where all our people feel seen, heard and supported.
You’ll join a values-led organisation with a powerful mission and a collaborative culture. We offer flexible hybrid working, excellent benefits, and the chance to make a tangible difference in suicide prevention across the UK and Ireland.
For further information about Samaritans, including our charity structure, values, employee benefits, and application process, please read our recruitment brochure available below. You can also visit our careers website to access this.
We recognise the enormous benefits and the social justice imperatives of ensuring diversity at every level of our organisation. Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. To ensure Samaritans is representative of those we support and who support us, we particularly welcome applications from disabled, racialised minority and LGBTQ+ candidates, as these people are under-represented at Samaritans.
Apply now
You will be asked to complete short application questions and submit your CV. Please note the application questions have a 300word limit for each answer.
At Samaritans, human connection is at the heart of everything we do.
We do not use AI at any stage during the selection process. Your application will always be carefully reviewed by the recruiting manager or a member of the Talent Attraction Team.
We kindly ask that you avoid using AI tools to generate your application or interview answers. We want to hear your own ideas, insights, and writing style so your unique strengths can shine through. We recognise that some candidates may use assistive technology or tools to help with accessibility, structure or grammar.
Applications close: midnight on Sunday 7th June
In person interviews: w/c 15th June (KT17 2AF)
We prevent suicide through the power of human connection. Connecting people in crisis with trained volunteers who will always listen.



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Volunteer Centre Hackney is a thriving charity (annual income circa £1.1m, with 29 paid staff) providing volunteering infrastructure to the voluntary sector across the City of London and the London borough of Hackney. We support over 1500 residents a year to realise their skills and passions through volunteering and social action, and to share these for the benefit of others. We also provide volunteering resource, and advice and guidance on best practice in volunteer management, to hundreds of charities and community organisations.
Through our specialist programmes, our impact on the lives of residents is huge. We match volunteers to housebound residents to help them engage with communities and leave their homes; we provide long term personalised support to people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities to help them volunteer and find paid jobs; we support patients to deliver hundreds of their own activities and peer support groups at GP practices across City and Hackney; and in partnership with Public Health, we support over 250 Community Health Champions to share vital health messaging with their own diverse communities.
This is a hands-on and strategic role for an experienced fundraiser who thrives in a small to medium sized charity environment. You will have autonomy to develop a whole new fundraising strategy, utilise diverse fundraising methods, and build and develop new project ideas and partnerships. You will lead on income generation primarily through sourcing and applying to trusts and foundations, and with the potential to build new corporate partnerships, community campaigns and individual giving. You will build authentic relationships with funders and supporters, and together with VCH colleagues, will identify new programme models as ways to generate income. You will contribute to the development and production of compelling stories, evidence and marketing and build and maintain the infrastructure needed to track and achieve progress against annual income targets.
Post holders need to have excellent communication skills, to represent the charity in writing and in person. You must be enthusiastic, self-motivating and confident to work primarily alone, but also able to engage and collaborate with staff from across the organisation to share information and impact evidence to support your role. If you are successful in securing funding there will be the potential to recruit additional support, and for you to become the Head of Fundraising of a small team.
We’ve been inspiring, developing, and supporting communities since 1997. We’re here to help you make a difference as a volunteer.



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Volunteering Assistant
Bowel Cancer UK is the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.
We currently have employees working across four nations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’re in a privileged position to be able to deliver our ambitious new strategy, On a Mission. There are huge challenges facing bowel cancer patients across the UK and our community needs us now more than ever. We’re building a strong and united team to bring us closer to a world where nobody dies of bowel cancer.
Job Summary for Volunteering Assistant
The Volunteering Assistant supports the Head of Volunteering in delivering the organisation’s strategy by strengthening volunteer management, engagement, and development. Working across departments, the role ensures smooth day-to-day volunteering operations, supports both volunteers and role managers, and contributes to projects that enhance the overall volunteer experience.
Key responsibilities
- Provide administrative support to the volunteering function, including managing the volunteering inbox and maintaining accurate data
- Support volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and engagement activities across programmes
- Assist role managers and volunteers, ensuring compliance with organisational standards and processes
- Coordinate volunteer events, communications, and recognition initiatives
- Maintain systems and resources (e.g., intranet/SharePoint) to ensure up-to-date information
- Monitor engagement metrics and contribute to improvements in volunteer experience
- Contribute to wider projects, guidance, and best practice across volunteering
For more information on responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the job description attached.
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and at Bowel Cancer UK we are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful candidates may be subject to either a satisfactory, basic or enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - UK), (PVG – Scotland) or Access (NI) dependent upon the role. There is no cost to you and will be processed on your behalf.
We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer.
Community Fundraiser (Covering North Liverpool, Southport, Knowsley & St Helens)
As part of our community team, you will place our supporters at the heart of everything you do by cultivating and stewarding relationships to provide a first-class experience. You are outgoing, independent, able to work instinctively, and confident in making approaches to garner new support. You will have the ability to translate our story to develop and inspire our volunteers and engage with a wide range of community contacts and high street corporates. You'll be joining the charity during an exciting period of growth, as we develop our community volunteer led income with the aim of increasing charity reach and recognition in pursuit of our team targets and goals.
Ideally you will have experience of working in a fundraising environment (paid or voluntary), or be able to demonstrate transferable skills within a customer-facing role, and the ability to manage relationships with a diverse range of people.
The role will be based at our Liverpool fundraising office. The option of hybrid/flexible working where appropriate can be considered.
A good knowledge of the area this role covers and a full driving licence and use of a car in order to travel between Clatterbridge sites and across the wider area is essential.
Preference would also be for the candidate to live within or close to the area the role covers.
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Job Title: Volunteer Coordinator
Salary £26,734
Are you a people person and do you want to use your skills to help put nature into recovery in Gloucestershire? We are looking for an excellent communicator with experience of working with and coordinating volunteers to join our team.
You will be passionate about the natural world and supporting people to develop and utilise their skills, whilst also being a great team working and having excellent IT skills.
For full details please see the Job Description.
No agencies.
We aim to be an equal opportunity employer and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment.
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Context and Background
The NSPCC’s purpose is to prevent cruelty to children across the UK and Channel Islands. The Policy and Social Change (PSC) and Strategy and Transformation (S&T) Directorates exist to help shape the world around us – and what the NSPCC does – so it reflects our evidence and learning about what works to ensure babies, children and young people are safe from abuse.
The Directorates are responsible for:
-influencing public policies, laws and social change through research, policy and campaigning; and
-leading the development of our organisational strategy, developing innovative services and managing our knowledge and information.
Job purpose
The Executive Assistant provides proactive, high‑quality administrative and organisational support to the Directors of Policy and Social Change and Strategy and Transformation.. The role exists to:
·Provide effective support to Directors, ensuring the Directorates work at their best.
·Deliver high-quality customer care to both internal and external stakeholders.
·Develop, manage, and review administrative and information systems to keep processes smooth and reliable.
·Work with colleagues to solve challenges and improve systems and processes.
By enabling effective leadership and upholding NSPCC values and safeguarding standards, the postholder plays a key role in supporting the Directorates’ work to keep children safe from abuse and neglect.
Key relationships - Internal
•Reports to the Director of Policy and Social Change as well as the Director of Strategy and Transformation, works closely with their respective Senior Management Team and attends SMT meetings.
•Builds and maintains working relationships with the other Executive Assistants, administrative and support staff, and all Directorates staff to enable the provision of high-quality administrative support and information.
Key relationships - External
•Maintains and builds relationship with NSPCC stakeholders, such as professional partners of the directorates, suppliers and other service providers.
Main duties and responsibilities
•To provide administrative support to the Director of Policy and Social Change and the Director of Strategy and Transformation, including but not limited to, diary management, travel bookings, meetings support and forward planning.
•To assist with the Directors’ cost centres and financial responsibilities (including raising purchase orders, handling supplier processes and contract set up), and holder of the Directorates’ purchasing card.
•To ensure information and material about the Directorates on internal communication channels are clear and up to date (including on Directorate Teams’ channels, on The Green and the Volunteer Hub).
•To be a source of expertise and support to the Directors on recruitment and onboarding of new colleagues.
•To organise regular Senior Management Teams and Directorate-wide meetings for each Director as required – including being responsible for agendas, notes and action logs.
•To be an accessible and approachable member of the two Directorates, proactively sharing information when necessary and developing an excellent knowledge of NSPCC processes and procedures.
•To coordinate and support projects relevant to the Directorates’ work, including projects on child sexual abuse, child safety online, strategy reviews and NSPCC Learning Services.
•To co-organise and facilitate internal lunch and learn sessions for colleagues across the Directorates.
•To act as a trusted member of the Executive Assistants forum.
Responsibilities for all Staff within Policy and Social Change and Strategy and Transformation
There are a set of responsibilities for all staff within each directorate.
·To comply with all relevant NSPCC safeguarding policies
·A commitment to applying NSPCC Values and Behaviours to all aspects of work
·To maintain an awareness of own and other’s health and safety and comply with NSPCC’s Health and Safety procedures
·A sound understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
·To comply with NSPCC Diversity and Equality policies and practices and work in a manner which facilitates inclusion.
·To maintain and develop competence in the use of IT systems.
·To manage confidential and/or sensitive information in accordance with NSPCC policies and Data Protection and GDPR regulations
A commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
Person specification
1.Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to deal professionally with a range of internal and external stakeholders and colleagues.
2.Excellent written communication skills and the ability to understand, interpret and present complex information in a clear and accurate way for a range of audiences.
3.Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple demands and prioritise, anticipate needs and forward plan accordingly.
4.Demonstrable experience of running meetings (both virtual and in person), including arranging, facilitating, minuting, organising action logs and necessary follow ups.
5.Strong problem-solving skills including the ability to think quickly under pressure to resolve unexpected issues alongside ability to research, analyse and present effective solutions to operational challenges.
6.Discretion and the ability to deal with confidential information sensitively and appropriately.
7.In depth experience of using Microsoft software packages (including Teams, Word, Outlook and Excel)
8.Demonstrable commitment to the NSPCC’s mission to prevent cruelty and stop child abuse and neglect.
Safer Recruitment
As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk.
Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.
The recruitment and selection of our people will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.
Our principles:
•Always seek to recruit the best candidate for the role based on merit including their skills, experience, motivation and competencies. Our robust recruitment and selection process should ensure the identification of the person best suited to the role and the organisation.
•Committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and will interview all applicants (internal and external) who self-declare at application as having a disability and who meet the minimum requirements in the person specification of the vacancy they are applying for.
•We will make reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process in order to enable successful candidates who declare disabilities to start working or volunteering their time with us.
•Any current member of staff or volunteer who wishes to apply for vacancies and is suitably qualified will be considered and addressed fairly and objectively based on their merit.
•As an organisation committed to safeguarding, we will ensure all under 18’s joining the organisation will have ongoing risk assessments to ensure their role and activities are safe and appropriate.
•All documentation relating to candidates will be treated confidentially in accordance with the GDPR legislation.


