Volunteer Engagement Specialist

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Advance Charity Full time

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Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Then Advance Charity could be the career choice for you

We are looking for a** **Volunteer Engagement Specialist**

**Salary**: £33,000 - £39,000

**Location**: Hammersmith

**Hours**: 35 Hours per week (some working from home)

**Contract**: Permanent

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This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010._**

**About us**

Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending. We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community.

We are a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community. We achieve this by being available to meet and support women in local settings and at our women’s centres, _and_ by working in close partnership with other agencies.

Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

**About the role**:
A newly created role to focus on the development and implementation of our Volunteer pathway. This role will support the recruitment and training of our volunteers and deploy them to various programmes within Advance and support their preparation to enter and or return to the labour market.

**About You**:
To be successful as the** Volunteer Engagement Specialist **you will, bring your proven experience in third sector and demonstration of your work in volunteering engagement and or peer mentoring. You will have the ability to contribute towards our strategy to recruit, train and retain, be collaborative and enjoy stakeholder engagement. You will bring your knowledge and preferable experience of pre-employment processing and have excellent organisational skills. Your demonstration of soft skills are as important as embracing our values and having a variable approach towards Equity Diversity and Inclusion

**How to apply**:

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- ** Interviews are taking place on** **a rolling basis**

**What we can offer you - Employee Benefits**:

- A 35-hour working week
- An exceptional **30 days of paid holiday per year **(pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays on top (that's nearly 40 days paid holiday per year)
- ** Additional days off** to celebrate **International Women’s Day**, and for religious observance and moving home
- Perkbox - an employee discount platform where you can receive free rewards as well as take advantage of savings on clothes, groceries, travel, leisure and more
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee eye-care scheme
- Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
- Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
- Organisation wide away days
- Thorough induction and training
- Career development pathways

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Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities_**
- We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits._

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Safeguarding_**
- Advance is committed to safeguarding and c_reating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm_ and expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment. We believe all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe. We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance, accessible to all staff, which promotes safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities. When we recruit staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, this involves carrying out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, and identity checks. We ensure all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities, to empower them to be competent and feel confident in recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing._

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