Service Volunteer Co-ordinator

2 weeks ago


United Kingdom Perennial Full time

Service Volunteer Co-ordinator
Home-based in England (with occasional overnight stays)

About Us

Perennial is the nation's only charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture. Together with our network of partners, we provide free support, information, advice and services for horticulturalists and their families experiencing illness, bereavement, relationship and employment issues and money difficulties.

We have a real focus on improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of people working in horticulture and have an ambitious preventative strategy to create better futures for people working in horticulture.

We are currently seeking a Service Volunteer Co-ordinator to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week, including some weekends.

The Benefits

- Salary of £31,000 per annum
- 25 days’ holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Pension
- DIS benefit (3x salary)
- Sickness pay
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Well-established family friendly policies, including the ability to have extra unpaid leave
- Time off for dependants

If you have project management experience and a background of developing volunteer programmes and creating new volunteer opportunities, this is a highly rewarding opportunity to step into an exciting new role and contribute to a meaningful cause.

You’ll have the chance to sow the seeds of positive change and help our volunteers to bloom and flourish, cultivating a better, brighter future for horticulturalists and their families across the UK. What’s more, you’ll receive a fantastic range of benefits, supporting you to tend to both your career and your personal life

So, if you want to dig deep and unearth your potential with the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture, read on and apply today.

The Role

As a Service Volunteer Co-ordinator, you will design and deliver a long-term integrated volunteer service strategy for our services across the UK.

Delivering our new volunteer engagement strategy, you’ll develop a central hub of volunteer policies, procedures and systems, proactively ensuring that volunteers are recruited, trained and supported to enable our work across the UK and make an impact.

You’ll shape our volunteer journey from recruitment and induction through to reward and recognition, celebrating their success and inspiring them to help create the best possible outcomes for people working in horticulture and their families.

Additionally, you will:

- Lead on all aspects of the day-to-day administration
- Develop and implement our volunteer service work with key partner agencies
- Report performance against plans, budgets and strategic objectives
- Develop effective partnerships, networks and joint working arrangements
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures

About You

To be considered as a Service Volunteer Co-ordinator, you will need:

- Experience of volunteer management and recruitment
- Project management experience
- Experience of leading volunteer-led service development
- Experience of developing volunteer strategies, policies and procedures, ensuring compliance across dispersed teams
- Experience of undertaking research, including service user engagement work, to support strategic development
- Experience of using research information and reliable data
- A successful track record of developing effective partnerships and co-production of programmes at scale
- In-depth knowledge of safeguarding practice and procedures
- Excellent interpersonal skills

The closing date for applications is the 18th May 2024.

Other organisations may call this role Volunteer Co-ordinator, Volunteer Team Co-ordinator, Service Manager, Service Co-ordinator, Volunteer Recruitment Co-ordinator, Volunteer Project Co-ordinator, or Volunteer Manager.

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