Head of Employability, Volunteering and Safeguarding

1 week ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom FareShare South West Full time


Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer, and working with 2 Employability Leads and 3 Volunteer Managers, in this role you will lead on the volunteer strategy and develop a volunteer recruitment and retention plan.

You will design and deliver a safeguarding policy training plan for all staff, as Safeguarding Lead.

You will create a series of employability programmes based on our flagship FareChance model, supporting NEET people.

And you will build and work with our volunteer, employability and warehouse teams to ensure they have the skills, support and training needed to manage the volunteeer workforce and deliver the employability programmes across the charity.


You will line manage 3 volunteer managers, based in St Judes and Bedminster in Bristol and in Sisna Park in Plymouth, as well as 2 employability leads based in Bedminster and inner city Bristol, and any future employability staff based din Plymouth.



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