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We’re looking for someone who can make a difference in local communities.

We have a vacancy for a proactive, outgoing and organised person with a passion for volunteering to join the Imago team. In this role you will recruit and manage volunteers for our community transport service and other projects.

You will help develop services by increasing the number of volunteers, meeting demand and enabling growth in new areas. There will be opportunities to organise and deliver promotional and volunteer recruitment activities, and you will manage volunteer applications, interviews and induction. It’s important that volunteers have a great experience with Imago, so you will ensure they feel supported and valued throughout the process.

Applicants should have relevant professional or personal experience of volunteering or working with communities, and have an understanding of the positive impact volunteering can have on the individual.

You should be confident in using social media, developing marketing materials, speaking, delivering presentations and developing networks. Attention to detail is a key skill and you will maintain excellent records using our bespoke database.

You will be based at our Sevenoaks office and cover wider areas so your own car is essential for this role.

Be part of something amazing.

Do you love working with volunteers?  Are you inspired by matching their support with opportunities that will make a tangible positive impact on breaking the cycle of homelessness?  Are you good at gathering information and organising people? If so, we would love to hear from you! 

This brand new role is dedicated to coordinating volunteers to help deliver our services, campaigns and events – helping with recruitment, logistics, stewardship and communications.  You will be playing a key part in helping to look after and grow our volunteers, ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient, and identify volunteering needs and roles.

Social Bite wouldn’t be able to do what we do without volunteers helping us across the organisation, from our services and social impact projects through to our fundraising campaigns and events. This new role is dedicated to centralised coordination of their recruitment, management, stewardship and communications.  The role has been created to help us nurture and grow our volunteer base, ensure our volunteering needs are being met, make the most of volunteering opportunities, and ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient.  Having this in place is key to our strategy.

We are looking for someone passionate about volunteering, who is organised with good customer service skills, to join the friendly, creative and go-getting team at Social Bite as we take the next steps towards our vision of ending homelessness together. 

Your immediate focus will be on our Christmas campaign – the Festival of Kindness - where we need volunteers across Scotland and in London to help us deliver an initiative that will provide hundreds of thousands of Christmas meals, winter food packs, gifts and essential items – as well as accommodation – to people experiencing homelessness and food poverty.

Key responsibilities and duties

Identifying opportunities

Essential:

• Map out volunteering needs across all teams and projects, for example:
  • Social impact: free food provision service, central kitchen function, signposting support, Christmas dinners
  • Campaigns and events: event marshals; manning stalls; representing the charity at city-centre installations in shifts throughout the month of December; picking and sorting of donated items at a warehouse; gift wrapping etc.
  • Other: skills-sharing

Desired:

• Creating and updating a ‘volunteering menu’ with things that volunteers can help with – ranging from service delivery to campaigns and events, options for weekdays vs. evenings and weekends, what can be done in-person vs. remotely.

Volunteer recruitment

• Drafting role profiles and adverts for volunteering positions across the organisation – both year-round and campaign-specific
• Being the point of contact for all volunteering enquiries, including:
  • Corporate partner employees or supporters responding to volunteer role adverts
  • Members of the public proactively offering to volunteer in general
• Providing information for content for volunteer recruitment social media posts and mailchimps
• Ensure correct recruitment procedures are following eg. references, risk assessments, exit interviews where relevant.
• To maintain pool of on-call regular volunteers who can help at short notice, help with holiday cover etc.

Logistics

• Creating and organising schedules and shifts / rotas: placing volunteers into positions and knowing and communicating who is doing what and when, filling gaps and having back-ups for potential drop-outs. 
• Communicating with volunteers to let them know / remind them where to be and when, answer FAQs
• Communicating with Social Bite staff in the shops about the rota and cover for free food provision
• Communicating with the Social Impact team about any issues or support needs that might arise

Policies and procedures

• Ensure volunteers have completed all health & safety and confidentiality forms, are familiar with safe-guarding and expense-claiming policies and processes
• To liaise with unit managers to make sure that all volunteers are inducted in their roles where relevant
• To ensure volunteers get the training they need for their role, if relevant.  For example, working closely with the Social Impact Team to ensure that trusting and positive relationships are built and a trauma-informed approach is being used when working with supported volunteers.

Stewardship and communications

Essential:

• Building relationships with volunteers, thanking and updating and recognising them, celebrating them on National Volunteer Week etc.
• Keep a database of all volunteers – both long-term and campaign-only, following GDPR requirements

Desired:

• To develop and implement a calendar of activity of key events and milestones (such as Volunteers Week) and plot out key steps in the volunteer journey from induction through to thanking, to ensure efficient communication and engagement
• To work with the Comms Manager on a volunteers’ newsletter and include volunteers in the collection of content including experiences, stories, images and videos.

Strategy

Desired:

• To help shape and implement a volunteering strategy
• To explore a Volunteer Programme accreditation / award

Person specification

Experience and knowledge

• Experience in working with groups of volunteers in a professional capacity

• Basic knowledge of charity law

Skills

• Excellent time & priority management and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Ability to proactively acquire information from colleagues to assess what is needed
• Ability to collate, analyse and evaluate that information and use it to inform a plan and next steps
• Ability to build relationships with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships

Ethos and approach

• Confident in proactively reaching out to colleagues and volunteers to acquire and share information
• Flexible and solution-focused
• Passion for the cause and a commitment to working as part of a team on a mission to help end homelessness.
• Ability to represent the work of Social Bite to the public with commitment and integrity.
• A willingness and commitment to undertake the role in a professional manner and maintain high-quality work at all times.
• To help promote an effective, positive and constructive team culture, where the work of others is valued and respected.

Relationships:

Internal:

• Director of Fundraising and Partnerships
• Head of Social Impact
• Communications Manager
• Campaigns Manager
• Wider Fundraising and MarComms team
• Wider Social Impact team
• Shop managers and staff

External

• Volunteers
• Corporate partner employees who are volunteering
• Social Bite supporters

Merstham Community Facility Trust (MCFT) was started by a small group of local people who wanted to make their community a safer, happier, and better place. Fourteen years later it has grown to become an organisation that delivers a multitude of projects that support, connect, and empower the community.

MCFT seeks to provide opportunity, access, and services to all within our local community, in responsive and inclusive ways.

MCFT is based at The Merstham Hub a great purpose-built community building that we share with the Council’s Library, the Merstham Mix (a community café) and the YMCA.  MCFT is a place that thrives on community spirit and has a team of warm, , friendly and dedicated staff and volunteers.

We have a wide range of activities and services and enable a wide range of other organisations and people to bring their services to the community. This includes our Community Fridge, a Food Club, a Community Allotment, Repair Café, IT Buddies, and even a Trishaw!

The post holder will be required to build strong relationships with volunteers and coordinate training and other developmental opportunities for them. You will provide a single point of entry to volunteering at the Merstham Community Hub (the Hub), exploring and developing different recruitment methods and partnership working strategies to bring in a diverse group of volunteers. The role will also involve using a newly implemented volunteer management database.

We are looking for someone who is organised, kind and compassionate to play a key role in the development and impact of MCFT with and for its volunteers and the local community.

Applicants must have prior experience in recruiting, managing, and/or working with volunteers.

The  Coroners’  Courts  Support  Service  is a charity supporting bereaved people attending an inquest at a Coroner's Court in England.  We are seeking an enthusiastic, energetic Volunteer Coordinator to take responsibility for managing existing volunteers, recruit and train teams of volunteers to Coroners’ Courts in the South West of England and to complete setting up the Service in Dorset. 

Extensive travel is involved and some overnight stays may be necessary depending on where the successful applicant lives.   A willingness to work on a flexible basis is essential. The 37.50 hour post is usually worked over a 4-day period to help manage the travel.

Full details of the role and courts you will manage can be found in the attached job description.

Interview dates: week commencing 15th November 2021

Short list interviews: week commencing 22nd November 2021

The  Coroners’  Courts  Support  Service  is a charity supporting bereaved people attending an inquest at a Coroner's Court in England.  We are seeking an enthusiastic, energetic Volunteer Coordinator to take responsibility for managing existing volunteers, recruit and train teams of volunteers to Coroners’ Courts in the South of England and to set up the Service in Hampshire.

Extensive travel is involved and some overnight stays may be necessary depending on where the successful applicant lives.   A willingness to work on a flexible basis is essential. The 37.50 hour post is usually worked over a 4-day period to help manage the travel.

Full details of the role and courts you will manage can be found in the attached job description.

Interview dates: week commencing 15th November 2021

Short list interviews: week commencing 22nd November 2021

If you have the energy and enthusiasm to assist us in achieving our goal of making life better for our students, then we have the ideal opportunity for you to join our Student Activities team.

The ideal candidate for this role will have experience of managing volunteering schemes, volunteers and/or civic engagement programmes. Ideally the candidate will also have experience of administrating accredited volunteering initiatives.

The post holder will need to form strong, enduring partnerships with local volunteering organisations in order to establish a broad range of placement opportunities for our members. The post holder will also drive our strategic ambition to establish an accredited volunteering programme at the University, embedded in the curriculum.

The successful candidate will also lead our work on sustainability.

Bucks Students’ Union is a democratic, student-led organisation whose mission is to make life better for students at Bucks. We are committed to improving the student experience and actively seek to bring positive change to student life.

We value student officers, volunteers and employees with ideas and personality and believe that lively, active and vibrant people shape our organisation.

The role attracts a generous holiday entitlement and excellent opportunities for personal development.

We are seeking a dedicated, dynamic and self-motivated individual with experience in managing and developing volunteering in a not-for-profit organisation.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join a day hospice with big aspirations to grow our care services in the local community, increasing the reach of our service provision and making a real difference to the lives of those we care for.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of developing and managing volunteers in a similar role, with excellent communication and management skills.

This is a permanent role paying a full-time equivalent of up to £35,000 per annum, depending on experience. You will receive 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing with length of service. We also offer an employer contributory pension scheme and free on-site parking.

We are looking for someone with skills in recruiting and training volunteers, who you will build into a Sitting and support Service for unpaid, mostly family, carers. Your volunteers will sit with the cared for person so that their carer can take a short break to attend a GP appointment, hairdressers, leisure centres and any other opportunity to recharge their batteries. You will match the new volunteers to the carer and cared for, undertake risk assessments and coordinate a timetable of support. You will be supported by an established Senior Coordinator and will have opportunities to develop yourself within your role as part of a vibrant and supportive Carers Support service.

We are looking for someone to help us grow, develop and look after our amazing volunteers.  Care Network supports local people with practical & emotional help after an illness or hospital stay or to maintain independence at home,  to help rebuild confidence, and to access advice and information and our volunteers are instrumental in making this happen across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.  As well as recruiting and supporting our volunteers, we need someone who will help us maintain our Investors in Volunteers accreditation working longside our staff, leadership and trustee team to ensure that volunteers are supported. 

Please apply with a cv and a covering letter setting out how you meet the job description/person specification by midday on Monday 25th October,  interviews will be arranged after this date and may take place online. 

Volunteer Coordinator
Salary: £20,276 to £23,855 dependent on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Milton Hospice
Level: Voluntering
Job Type: Permanent

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) provides holistic, needs led, specialist children’s palliative care of the highest standard in line with our continued commitment to quality and service improvement.

As part of our strategy to maximise the amount and type of support for families, we aim to grow our Help at Home volunteering service, that provides families with practical support in their homes. We are also developing volunteer roles to work alongside our care team to help with the delivery of our care and support.

We currently have a full time vacancy for a Volunteer Coordinator at our hospice in Milton, Cambridgeshire.  As part of the Care Directorate, our Volunteer Coordinator will work closely with the EACH Volunteers Manager and care team. 

You will be responsible for:

• Recruiting, training and ensuring volunteers are supported to safely provide practical help to families in their homes and to work alongside the care staff to provide care and support to the children, young people and their families. 
• Supporting the Volunteer Manager and other Care Directorate managers to identify new and innovative ways of volunteering to support EACH’s care strategy.
• Promoting EACH as a volunteer organisation, supporting opportunities for individuals and groups to become involved. 

The ideal candidate will have previous experience working with and/or overseeing volunteers. You will have a strong teamworking ethic, excellent communication skills, a sense of accountability and the ability to work flexibly.

If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team making a huge difference for the children’s palliative care and volunteer community, then we want to hear from you!

You must have a full driving licence for driving our pool vehicles (manual) and have access to your own car.  You will have set working days but will need to be flexible to work across seven days including some occasional evening work if required.  This will be a hybrid role and you will need to be able to work in the hospice building or from home, as required by EACH.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

EACH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all sections of the community.

The closing date for the post is midnight on Tuesday 9th November 2021. Interviews will be held on Friday 19th November 2021.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website

No agencies please.

Help us get more volunteers so we can help older people get more out of life.

About us

For the last 30 years, Age UK Enfield has been transforming the lives of older people in the local community. Our team of passionate staff and volunteers deliver a comprehensive range of services and activities, from providing advice on benefits to assisting with shopping and cleaning, organising exercise classes and maintaining a busy and involving day centre. You can join us and make all the difference.

About the role

Acting as the main point of contact for all our volunteers, you will take the lead on recruitment, induction and support – so you can expect an extremely high profile. We will look you to you to identify the people we need for both existing and planned services, and you will actively update our policies and procedures to keep us at the forefront of best practice. Every day will bring different challenges as you create job descriptions, prepare advertising, conduct interviews, implement training and manage performance reviews – and above all ensure we continue to attract the committed, capable volunteers we require.

About you

Alongside sound experience of volunteer coordination or a similar activity, you will bring good knowledge of recruitment and retention, proven ability to maintain detailed records and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. If you are familiar with organising events and using social media for marketing, so much the better, but it’s your flexibility, attention to detail and flair for making things happen that will matter most.

Benefits

In return for your passion and drive, we offer a competitive salary and an excellent package of benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, employee health and wellbeing services via Simply Health and the Cycle to Work scheme. Most importantly, you will enjoy all the satisfaction of making older people’s lives better in one of London’s most cosmopolitan boroughs.

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.

Closing date: 29 October 2021

Interview date: TBC

Age UK Enfield (AUKE) is the operating name of Age Concern Enfield. AUKE is an Equal Opportunities employer. AUKE is a charity (no. 1063696) and company limited by guarantee (no. 3352062)

We are seeking a part time Volunteer Co-ordinator to join our team at the newly opened Rye Harbour Discovery Centre. The successful candidate will be responsible for co-ordinating all volunteering activities at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and Discovery Centre, including working with colleagues to deliver the Discover Rye Harbour project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Engagement Manager (Volunteer Co-ordinator) Pembrokeshire Community Hub
Fixed-term Contract for 1 Year
Job ref: V347
Start date: 4 January 2022
Hours/Days per week: 21 hours per week - (Flexible days/hours)
Salary: £14,400 (FTE £24,000)
Location: Home-based – covering Pembrokeshire
Closing date: Wednesday 3rd November 2021 – 5pm
Interview date and Location:  Wednesday 24th November 2021 (In person) – Venue  - TBC

Overview

Volunteering Matters is a national volunteering and social change charity. We harness the unique power of volunteering to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.

By bringing people together, we aim to resolve some of society’s most complex issues and have a real impact in communities. From tackling social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence and opportunities; and ensuring young people can become change makers in their community.

And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.

Role purpose

In partnership with PAVS and Pembrokeshire County Council, Volunteering Matters is looking for an experienced and dynamic Engagement Manager (Volunteer Co-Ordinator) to join our delivery team in West Wales.

The successful candidate will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting volunteers across Pembrokeshire. Working with our partners, the post-holder will recruit volunteers to support the new Community Hub, develop and support the volunteer team and its activity and work closely with the Community Hub Manager, Community Connectors and other community groups.

Volunteers recruited will be “Hub Champions”. They will support and add value over the phone, online and at community events. They will disseminate information and will also provide a Hub presence in local communities, promoting the support available and linking with the network of informal community groups initially established in response to COVID.

The new Hub will prevent escalation of individual difficulties through proactively promoting community solutions and services. It will work alongside community members to find the support they need to stay well, active, connected, independent and resilient.

The post-holder will be accountable to the local Project Manager who reports directly to the Delivery Leader for Wales and the South West of England.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 24th November at Haverfordwest Football Club.

 Other

This role requires an enhanced DBS check. Having a conviction will not necessarily cause a bar to employment.

Volunteering Matters Values & Ways of Working: 

In all that we do, Volunteering Matters embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values:

We are Empowering
We are Inclusive
We are Compassionate
We are Positive
We are Straightforward

Benefits package: Pension, Unlimited annual leave, fully flexible working, cycle to work & season ticket loan.

Your supporting statement is of equal importance to us as your CV and is a key part of our shortlisting process. It is an opportunity for you to outline your experience and credentials directly to the details of the post.

Volunteering Matters is committed to the provision of equal opportunities in employment and accordingly wishes to ensure that no job applicant is treated less favourably on unjustifiable grounds. To assist in the monitoring of our performance in relation to equal opportunities you are requested to complete the enclosed monitoring form. The questionnaire is for statistical purposes only. Upon receipt it will be separated from your CV and cover letter and will not form part of the selection process.

GDPR Statement

If you apply for a role with us, we will retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months.  We will not use your personal data for any other purpose or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information or ask us to delete it from our records.

To apply please visit our website.

Please note: Due to the volume of applications we receive if we have not contacted you by the interview date it means that on this occasion, we are unable to take your application further.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Coordinator (Volunteering) to join our team base in Oxford. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £25,000 - £27,000 per annum per annum.

In addition to a competitive salary, RABI also offers 28 days of annual leave, 10% pension contribution on successful completion of probation, access to learning & development and an employee assistance scheme

Please note that there is flexibility to work from home up to a couple of days per week, but this is an office-based role.

RABI has been supporting farming people throughout England and Wales for many generations. Providing practical guidance and proactive support to everyone within the agricultural community, RABI has a network of locally based teams who understand the challenges farming people face. The charity’s range of services cover four areas:

- Help at a critical time
- Mental wellbeing
- Support for living independently
- Training and upskilling

It is an exciting time to join the charity as it implements a 5-year strategy which aims to quadruple support to farming people by 2024. At the heart of this ambitious objective, is an aspiration to deliver a holistic, flexible approach to services that promotes early intervention and farmer wellbeing.

The Coordinator (Volunteering) role:

The post holder will work alongside another Coordinator to provide administrative support  and coordination across the Volunteering department at R.A.B.I.  This includes the Head of Volunteering, all Regional Managers (RMs), volunteer County Committees (CCs) and volunteers.

What you will be doing as our Coordinator (Volunteering):

• Be a key contact point for and work with the RMs and CCs to ensure their administrative needs are met and that appropriate resources are in the right place at the right time.
• In conjunction with fundraising Update and manage the R.A.B.I database to ensure that it contains accurate supporter records for use in regional events and fundraising.
• Assist RMs in maintaining legal compliance for events; for example, conducting and filing risk assessments, securing appropriate licences and helping RM’s and volunteers to plan logistics for events.
• Be responsible for monitoring and replenishing stock of the suite of fundraising materials alongside fundraising.
• When appropriate attend occasional county shows and other events UK-wide to support RMs and volunteers including supporting R.A.B.I’s stands – maintaining follow-up records for all events.
• Working alongside fundraising to improve business intelligence by undertaking desk research as required, e.g., compiling relevant statistics by county/region for RMs; and updating supporters’ contact details.
• Provide general administrative support to the Head of Volunteering on a daily basis.
• To cover the switchboard/reception in Shaw House with other staff and undertake other duties to support R.A.B.I as appropriate.

Key skills and experience we are looking for in our Coordinator (Volunteering):

• A-level education or demonstrate equivalent relevant experience within a fundraising, sales or marketing environment
• Well-developed numeracy and literacy skills at a level that would enable the post-holder to produce reports
• IT literate – good working knowledge of email systems, Word, Excel in particular and ideally desktop publishing.
• Strong time management and highly developed organisational skills
• Responsibility for preparation or use of personal data and other confidential information including responsibility for its retention and safe custody
• Working in a sometimes pressurised environment, responding rapidly to changing needs.

If you feel you have what it takes to become out Coordinator (Volunteering) click ‘Apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!