Volunteer Support Officer

• Northern Area Sea Cadets HMS Caledonia, Hilton Road, Rosyth, KY11 2XH (On site)
• Closing17th May 2024
• Advertised from 23rd April 2024
• 35 hours per week.

Are you passionate about supporting volunteers and looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelonglearning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential throughchallenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise theirpotential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we havebuilt a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, bothfor young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets andmarine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in arapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those fromunder-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Volunteer Support Officer with proven administrative and IT skills to join our busyVolunteer Support Department at Northern Area Sea Cadets.

This role involves acting as the first point of contact via email and phone for our volunteers providing warm andfriendly assistance. This role provides vital support to volunteers within our enrolment process as well asadministrative tasks that aid and celebrate our volunteers. Our successful candidate will be organised, a strongteam player and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the adult volunteer applications to join the Sea Cadets, ensuring that personnel records are updatedaccordingly on our database
• Review and approve applications for the Cadet Forces Medal
• Respondto all volunteer enquiries received by MSSC by email, post and phone
• Administer personnel formsassociated with volunteer progression

Requirements

• Computer literacy: strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, email, internet and experience of web basedinformation systems
• Experience of working in a customer focussed role, including handling a wide rangeof enquiries by phone and email, and handling challenging phone calls and emails
• Experience of usingdata protection procedures
• Experience of database inputting and records maintenance and management
• Experience of setting up andusing Mail Merge to issue emails or letters
• 25 days annual leave per annum increasing with length of service
• Hybrid working for many roles
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity,diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. Wework to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience,identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work.We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitmentand work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to saferrecruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successfulcandidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosurequestionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including adisclosure check.

We have an exciting new opportunity for an individual who is passionate about community development lead andvolunteer coordination at The Salisbury Centre. We are recruiting a Community Development Lead and VolunteerCo-ordinator.

As our Community Development Lead and Volunteer Coordinator, you'll be instrumental in collaborating with ourcommitted community members, volunteers, centre attendees, and outreach initiatives. In your role as volunteercoordinator, you'll lead the recruitment, organization, administration, and engagement of volunteers, with astrong emphasis on ensuring each volunteer feels valued, supported, and aligned with the Centre's core values.As a Community Development Lead, you'll guide and empower individuals and groups to pursue their interestsand aspirations within the Centre. This involves mentoring individuals to participate in community events,volunteer work, and share their skills.

• Excellent communication skills including networking.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to manage a diverserange of people.
• Facilitation experience – hosting and supporting community events.
• Capacity toinspire and motive others.
• Experience in community outreach.
• Experience working with vulnerable groups.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and evaluating mentorship and volunteering.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students' Union as Sports DevelopmentCoordinator to plan, coordinate and deliver our comprehensive sports development programmes, in conjunction withthe Sports President. You will manage and develop the Sports Administrator. You will also support sports unionmembers, with particular focus but not exclusively, in the areas of Club Development, Participation, Health andWellbeing and Finance & Funding.

About Us

Stirling Students' Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registeredcharity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supportingstudents when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps,providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills,advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring electfour full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Educationand Sports Union President.

About You

We're looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You'll be driven, using yourinitiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties ofthe role include:

· Strategic approach to development and delivery of BUCS, ensuring improvement and effective use of funding.

· Develop and implement a comprehensive plan (actions, targets, responsibilities and resources).

· Increase club membership and participation.

· Ensure clubs are accessible and inclusive to all participants.

· Contribute to the formulation of policy and procedures as required, in collaboration with other Coordinators.

· Design and deliver training for committee members of Sports Clubs.

· Effectively engage students and provide ongoing support and assistance where appropriate.

· Coordinate and deal with member discipline and complaints, contributing to effective process development.

· Assist in the recruitment of coaches to ensure quality of sports provision within clubs.

· Work in partnership with the University to provide opportunities for students to engage in physical activity andsports.

· Work closely with the Student Sport Development Officer on participation programmes for recreational sport.

· Develop mutually beneficial relationships with external partners, (BUCS, SSS, Community Clubs and NationalGoverning Bodies) to increase the range, and quality of sports provision and coaching services provided.

· Work with BUCS, SSS and National Governing bodies to promote volunteering opportunities.

· To monitor, evaluate and report on club activities and identify opportunities for growth.

· To be a mentor on the panel of the Tier 2 programme.

· Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student sport and club activity.

· Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use physical activity and sport as a method of improvingHealth & Wellbeing whilst positively impacting on the student experience.

· Engage with Union, University and national campaigns and initiatives for establishing healthy and resilient studentcommunities.

· Embed innovative practices in engaging sports members with sustainability opportunities.

Finance & Funding

· Working with Sports President and Finance Manager to ensure club funds are managed appropriately.

· Oversee the effective running of the Sports Union budget.

· Responsibility for administration of funding requests for Coaches and Capital Equipment.

· In collaboration with Union colleagues deliver signature sports events such as Sports Ball and Varsity.

· Work with Stakeholders on the Kit Tender process.

Our Activity Centres provide innovative and person-centred services and support to veterans struggling with sightloss. This job exists in order to provide tailored support to veterans carrying out woodworking projects. Youwill work alongside the veterans to identify abilities, share ideas and plan projects within the activityCentre. You will ensure that the support provided is person-centred, tailored to their needs and is the rightsupport for them. You will support the leadership team to coordinate and manage the activities provided withinand from the Activity Centre which will support the overall wellbeing of the veterans and their families. Youwill work closely with colleagues across the organisation and external stakeholders to ensure that veterans canaccess the relevant support.

About us

We're one of Scotland's oldest charities - for more than two centuries, we've been supporting andempowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We're proud of all we've achieved in thepast - but we have our sights set firmly on the future.

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying andgrowing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they needus.

• Scottish Borders, Main office, home and in the community (Hybrid)
• Closing30th April 2024

Borders Community Action, the Third Sector Interface in the Scottish Borders, is recruiting an Employability Lead tohelp increase the employability of people in the Scottish borders through improving the capacity, scope andinfluence of the third sector employability provision.

As a member of the Local Employability Partnership (LEP), BCA supports the aims and objectives of the LEP ImprovementPlan and those of "No-one Left Behind".

We are recruiting an Employability Lead who will be responsible for supporting the mapping of the employabilityprovision across the Scottish Borders and work to create employability pathways linking to our volunteeringprogramme and raising the profile of the third sector as a key partner in delivering employment outcomes in theScottish Borders.