Team Recruitment Volunteer

3 months ago


Penrith, United Kingdom British Heart Foundation Full time

Our charity funds around £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. Heart diseases. Stroke. Vascular dementia. Diabetes. They're all connected, and they're all under our microscope. Our volunteers help us fund lifesaving science to improve the lives of families and loved ones living with heart and circulatory disease. Volunteering with us is easy, flexible, and inclusive. If you can spare a few hours a week, or a couple of hours occasionally, we’d love you to join our volunteer team.

This is an exciting time to join the British Heart Foundation as a Team Recruitment Volunteer. Your role will be to assist the Shop Manager to welcome volunteers into our organisation by providing a quality recruitment and induction support service for our volunteers. You’ll acquire hands-on experience of various different volunteer roles in our shop, be shown how to settle in new volunteers and learn how to recruit new volunteers.

Just so you know, we are unable to accept volunteers aged under 16 or with unspent criminal convictions. Please note this is an unpaid voluntary position in a friendly charity shop.

**Typical tasks include:
- Advertising & updating volunteering adverts on external websites
- Attending promotional events such as recruitment fairs, university volunteering fairs etc. to talk to potential volunteers about volunteering
- Supporting potential volunteers through the recruitment process and initial training
- Conducting volunteer recruitment on the shop sales floor Assisting the Shop Manager with volunteer administration

**Volunteering with British Heart Foundation comes with plenty of benefits too
- A 25% discount on donated goods and 10% discount on New Goods in our shops
- Unlimited, free, and confidential support by Retail Trust
- Access to training and development
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed
- Refreshments available
- Volunteer certificates, references and long service awards provided
- Access to discounts with other retailers


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