Admin Volunteer Roles
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Connection Support has a range of services providing support to people at risk of homelessness or on the edge of needing social care. We work with people made vulnerable through debt, family circumstances, mental health issues, substance misuse, care leavers, learning disability, age, and physical disabilities.
Volunteers play a key role in the provision of vital services to our clients f
Would you like the opportunity to apply your experience in a meaningful role to help vulnerable clients?
· Do you have 1 hour a week to give to a vulnerable client
· Can we rely and depend on you to commit to a period of up to 12 weeks?
· Can you create and maintain positive, professional, and trusting relationships with a non-judgmental approach?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then we would love to hear from you!
Role summary:
To encourage and support clients on a one-to-one basis to find suitable employment or volunteering.
To assess each individual and help prepare them for meaningful and suitable employment.
Key Responsibilities
· To support clients to identify their skills and readiness for employment and training
· To communicate with clients to understand their strengths and assisting with personal barriers
· To research and match suitable employment, work placements, volunteering or training opportunities based on client preferences
· To identify any initial support needs/adjustments that the service user may need to work successfully
· To assist with CV’s, applications and support for interviews
It’s fantastic that you would like to find out more about volunteering at St Mungo’s. As a Project Support volunteer you will make a difference by supporting clients to engage with us in various ways. In this role, you will be supporting us with all or some of the following tasks: Supporting on reception by meeting and greeting clients and visitors, handling client and visitor queries, recording information as well as taking and redirecting calls and relaying messages. You will also help in our cafe where you will be serving free drinks and snacks to our clients while creating a friendly and safe environment for them to get engaged with the organisation and even make friends and develop life skills. This role will also involve providing additional support by guiding clients through the building when necessary, signposting them to the relevant team and participating in activities such as playing pool, arts and crafts.
Please see all locations and the time commitments we are currently recruiting for in this role:
- Bournemouth – Mondays-Fridays, 10am-1pm (minimum 1 shift per week)
What will I be doing?
As a Project Support Volunteer you will make a difference by supporting clients to engage with us in different ways. In this role, you will be supporting us with all or some of the following tasks:
- Reception and administration: meeting and greeting clients and visitors, handling client and visitor queries, recording information as well as taking and redirecting calls and relaying messages.
- Café: Serving free drinks and snacks to our clients while creating a friendly and safe environment for them to get engaged with the organisation and even make friends and develop life skills.
- Client activities: Guiding clients through the building when necessary and signposting them to the relevant team.
- Engaging with clients by playing pool, doing arts and crafts or just sitting down and talking to them.
- Adhering to St Mungo’s Policies and Procedures at all times.
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Hey there,
We know how important CRM is for gaining and retaining donors, and we're really needing someone to help setting up a Hubspot account, creating automate processes and sequences for different parts of our lifecycle.
We're getting ready to launch, and really starting to drive people to our socials now and we want everything set up and functioning for that time.
We're a super cool, relaxed community, all working to make as much impact as possible!
Hit us up :)
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Admin Support volunteer, community fundraising, Aberdeen Area
Role summary
Are you looking to use your admin skills to make a difference? You’ll provide admin support to your local Community Fundraising team to ensure that we reach more potential supporters and that all our donors, however they choose to support us, receive exceptional supporter care. We're a new and growing team with big ambitions to engage local individuals, groups and businesses in the fight to end bad housing and homelessness. You'll play an integral role in helping to broaden our supporter base in local communities.
This role is flexible and hours can be discussed.
Main tasks
- Research new audiences such as schools, local businesses and faith groups based around Shelter Scotland offices.
- Support Regional Community Fundraiser in approaching new supporters.
- Strengthen relationships with supporters by providing fundraising materials and updates on our work by post and email.
- Maintaining supporter records on our database.
- Support in maintaining basic income spreadsheet such as Just Giving page total.
Providing basic administrative tasks including preparing fundraising packs, posters and documents and other ad hoc duties
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Administrative Support Volunteer
As an Administrative Support Volunteer, you will play an essential role in the team, complimenting the work of the London Hub and allowing Shelter clients to receive the support that they need. The opportunity will allow you to make a difference in your local community as well as gaining hands-on experience in one of the UK's leading housing charities.
Suggested Involvement: A suggested minimum commitment of one day per week for six months
Availability: This volunteering opportunity will take place within our working hours, Monday-Friday, 10:00-17:00
Location: This role is based at 26-28 Ramsgate Street, London, E8 1LD
Supervised by: Hub Administrator
Why get involved with Shelter?
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
Shelter volunteers are involved in our head office, services, shops, campaigns, events and our legal teams, and they all contribute their valuable time, skills and experience. We simply couldn’t achieve our goals without them.
Main tasks
- General administrative tasks (photocopying, scanning, and minute taking)
- Covering reception and meeting and greeting people who are dropping into the office on an ad hoc basis
- Supporting the delivery of Lived Experience Insight activities, by assisting setting up meetings & listening events, send reminder invites and forwarding other event information.
- Conducting client feedback calls
- Updating local resource documents, such as local authority information sheets
- Inputting information on to our case management system
- Supporting the team with resources for delivery of training
Skills and experience required
- Previous administrative experience or an interest in gaining administrative skills
- An interest in social welfare e.g. housing, welfare benefits, debt.
- Ability to manage your own time and task load
- Confident and professional telephone manner
- Good communication skills (this may be through experience of working with the public).
- Confident IT skills including Microsoft Office programmes.
- The ability to work as part of a team and value others
- Willingness to follow Shelter’s policies including Volunteering, Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Confidentiality and Data Protection
Induction, learning and development
To enable you to take part in this opportunity, Shelter will:
- Provide you with a Volunteer Handbook and all Policies & Procedures
- Provide e-learning including Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety, Data Protection, Environmental Awareness and Safeguarding
- Provide access to other appropriate Shelter training
- Provide a local induction relevant to your role
- Pay ‘out of pocket’ expenses in line with Shelter’s Volunteer Expenses Policy
Benefits of volunteering with Shelter
- Supporting Shelter in our fight against bad housing and homelessness
- Gain valuable work experience
- Be part of a great team
- Build your confidence and develop transferrable skills
- Enhances your CV
This is a voluntary position that supports the work of our services and is not replacing the work of a paid member of staff. This role profile does not form part of any contract of employment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Organisation:
Shelter Housing Advice and Research Project
Organisation overview:
Shelter Housing Advice and Research Project was established in 1974 by Leicester Shelter Group. We provide much-needed advice, help and support for people who have been homeless or facing serious housing problems in the City of Leicester and Leicestershire. We are currently Lottery funded and as part of that we are offering volunteer work placements that will help people to secure paid employment or a route into further education.
Role Title:
Volunteer work placement training
Time commitment:
6-week placement
Location of position:
13 Welford Road,
Leicester, LE2 7AD
Responsible to:
Volunteer Coordinator
Summary of role:
To gain valuable work experience as well as assisting with the smooth and efficient running of Shelter Housing Aid and Research Project (SHARP), mainly through Administrative and Casework assistance. This will include covering reception and administrative duties as necessary, working alongside caseworkers to deliver cases and helping to research and update database information.
Skills gained from placement:
- Using the phone.
- Dealing with incoming and outgoing post
- Photocopying and scanning
- Being proficient in Microsoft Office databases and emails.
- Experience of using client database (Advice Pro)
- Comfortable working as part of a team.
- Not limited to the above
Criteria:
18yrs +
Not in employment
We will give priority to long term unemployed 3yrs +.
Be able to do Monday-Thursday for 6 weeks
Desirable criteria:
Good IT knowledge
Social media experience
Fundraising experience
Benefits of volunteering
As a volunteer you will benefit by gaining new skills, work experience, and increasing your confidence and self-esteem. To help towards gaining employment.
Training and support:
Induction to the organisation
Full training on all aspects of the role
Support, advice, and guidance from our Volunteer coordinator
Reimbursement of expenses:
Shelter will only reimburse the cost of return travel via bus.
Contact Information:
Deepa Bhogal
Volunteer Coordinator
Covid 19 measures
Social distancing in place, hand washing, access to hand sanitiser. Volunteer will have their own workstation.
You must be currently unemployed and be able to commit to volunteering Monday-Thursday for 6 weeks
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About Providence Row
At Providence Row, our vision is that everyone has a safe home and a community in which to belong. In order to achieve this, we want to support and accompany people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness on their journey to recovery, especially those who are most vulnerable and least likely to access services elsewhere.
We work with around 1,200 homeless and vulnerably housed people a year in London, offering an integrated service of crisis support, advice, recovery, learning and training programmes. Central to our work are our core values of Compassion, Respect, Inclusiveness, Empowerment and Justice. These inform the content, style and delivery of all our service
The Role
Based at our day Centre , you would be part of a team of volunteers that welcome people who are struggling with homelessness, are vulnerably housed or require support in addressing their substance misuse issues. The team assist the Welcome Area Coordinator in ensuring the smooth operation of the centre, enabling our other departments to remain effective in supporting the people we work with.
This is an ideal role for warm, friendly people with excellent communication skills who would like to make a difference and support our service users who are facing a challenge in their lives. Ongoing training and support is offered to our volunteers to enhance their skills and experience.
We are looking for dedicated volunteers to better assist our service users with their needs.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you would like to volunteer with us