Volunteer and Outreach Officer

7 months ago


Bridgend, United Kingdom Project Seagrass Full time

Job description
**VOLUNTEER AND OUTREACH OFFICER**

**Project Seagrass - Saving the Worlds Seagrass**

Project Seagrass has recently launched its 10 year strategy to Save the Worlds seagrass. As a charitable organisation that has rapidly grown over the last few years we’re excited about the opportunities that the delivery of this new strategy provides to make a real difference in the marine environment. This is an exciting moment to join us: we’re an organisation with some ambitious aims and our team is essential to our success.

Project Seagrass was created with the intention of reversing the loss of seagrass by turning research into effective conservation action and communication both directly and through partnerships with communities and other stakeholders. Our journey as an organisation has taught us that achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and how we work together. As a dedicated interdisciplinary team, we are passionate about securing a future for seagrass. Only by bringing together a diverse range of identities, experiences and perspectives can we respond to the global challenges we currently face.

Project Seagrass has a pivotal role as a leading UK and international charity aiming to lead societal change to enable the recognition, recovery and resilience of seagrass ecosystems that provide biodiversity, equitable and sustainable livelihoods, and planetary life support. Engaging communities and volunteers in our work is critical for delivering our mission. We seek to inspire and empower people to help make a difference to the marine environment. From individuals, to small scale community groups, to resource managers and corporations as examples. We are looking for someone knowledgeable, enthusiastic, motivational and inspiring who is well organised and able to lead activities with people from a variety of backgrounds in different environments from school room to shore, and in all weathers.

We are looking for a Volunteer and Outreach Officer to lead our volunteer and outreach activities in an informative, safe and empowering way as an integral part of our close-knit team engaging volunteers to support projects across the UK. Working proactively, this role will lead development of a volunteer strategy and use digital and traditional tools to manage volunteers so that their assistance can make a major contribution to the work of Project Seagrass.

Role title:
**Volunteer and Outreach Officer**

Hours:
35 hours / week

Salary

£22,847

Role purpose

Recruitment and and management of volunteers and volunteer activities. Organisation of outreach events and activities working alongside project leads to provide supported and accessible volunteer and outreach programmes.

Line Manager:
Operations Manager

Key duties & responsibilities:

- Recruit, train and support volunteers who can help with specified tasks across the organisation from various desk based to field activities across our broad range of activities and operations.
- Organise and coordinate volunteering and outreach events and activities in the PS calendar
- Liaise with external organisations to promote PS volunteering opportunities.
- Develop and maintain links with community groups and other organisations and corporations in order to recruit volunteers
- Maintain good practice, following policies and procedures in volunteer management including following safeguarding procedures.
- Develop new volunteering opportunities within PS. This will include designing and running activities and events that will benefit PS programmes.
- Research, write and implement volunteer policies and procedures, including risk assessments
- Liaise and collaborate with other Project Seagrass team members to manage volunteer activities within ongoing project Seagrass activities
- Act as an ambassador for Project Seagrass in the community, seeking out partnership opportunities and embracing collaboration with other organisations.
- Inspire others about the importance of seagrass meadows and act as a role model to volunteers donating their time for this cause.
- Actively promote the work of Project Seagrass, our projects and activities and use this to help recruit future volunteers for our projects.
- Identify and engage with useful networking opportunities relevant to maximising the use of volunteers in Project Seagrass e.g. community forums, events and groups, corporate partners, third sector meetings
- Coordinate the Project Seagrass student intern and work experience programmes.
- Work closely with our Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Officers to organise profile-raising events to raise seagrass awareness and attract new volunteers
- Remain up to date with legislation and policy related to volunteering and make any necessary modifications to accommodate changes
- To act as Project Seagrass Safeguarding Lead
- Monitor and evaluate volunteer activities and contribute towards reports for funders and trustees
- Maintain databases and un



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