Volunteer Coordinator

3 weeks ago


Exeter, United Kingdom DYS Space Ltd Full time

**DYS218**:Volunteer Coordinator

**Employment Type**:Permanent

**Hours**:37 hours per week - including some evenings and a minimum of one Saturday per month

**Salary**:£22,000 - £24,000 FTE

**Interview Date**: Tuesday 7th March 2023 - (location TBC)

**SPACE** is an ambitious and innovative charity, driven by our values and seeking to support even more young people by developing current and new services. Our employees strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others. We value everyone's contribution and create safe spaces for exploration and growth.

Do you want to help us unlock potential with young people and their communities? Do you love a challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteer Coordinator

**What is the role?**

We are looking for a thoughtful and proactive individual to join our small but passionate Social Action team at Space Youth Services to help support our vision of “Unlocking Potential with Youth People”.
- This role will work closely with the Social Action Team, Director of Youth Work, Head of Fundraising and Marketing and the wider Space Team to support and embed volunteers across the organisation
- Recruitment, coordination, organisation and coaching of volunteers
- Collaborating with all areas of the organisation, identifying volunteering opportunities and requirements
- Keeping clear and accurate volunteer records and systems

**Who we’re looking for**

About You:

- You are collaborative. You work well with groups and individuals from inside and outside the organisation to accomplish tasks. You work to include all relevant parties in tasks to ensure all factors are considered and every voice is heard You have administrative experience.
- You have a variety of general administrative and technical experience as well as specific experience of data sets and collation, management of systems, high level IT including presentation preparation, organisational policies and systems.
- You are a superb communicator. You can use a variety of methods of communication to keep groups and individuals informed and hear concerns. You are equally comfortable participating in online and in-person meetings. You can prepare monitoring information on a regular basis, holding yourself and others to account.
- You have relevant experience. You have experience of volunteering and supporting others.
- You like variety. You have your own transport, and can visit volunteers in a wide variety of venues and communities.
- You are flexible. You are willing to work at times that suit volunteers, this will include evenings and some weekend work.

Space is continually striving to be an inclusive organisation. Equality, diversity and inclusion are threads that run through all our work, and should run through all our relationships with colleagues, partners and all those we work with. We go beyond the approach described by the Equality Act 2010 and choose to take an anti-oppressive approach to our work and how we behave as an Organisation.

**What we offer**
- Annual leave: 5 weeks for the first 5 years then additional days depending on length of service (pro-rata’d for part-time roles)
- Additional 3 Statutory days given between Christmas and new year plus bank holidays
- Pension contributions starting at 6% rising to 8% in the third year
- Employee assistance programme 24/7
- Casual dress code
- Flexible schedule
- Social occasions
- Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities
- Enhanced sick pay
- Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat
- Chromebook and work mobile
- Value-driven culture

**How to apply**

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Emily Hobson-Martin on 07764326406 or for more information please visit spaceyouthservices.org.

Interview date Tuesday 7th March 2023

Interview will be held at a venue TBC

At SPACE, we work with young people and are fully committed to ensuring their safeguarding and welfare is a priority at all times. As part of our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures, all of our employees, contractors and volunteers will be expected to comply. Upon a conditional offer of appointment being made, all employees will also be required to satisfy our pre-employment screening process which will include:

- An identity check (photo ID)
- Receipt of satisfactory references cover for 3 years to current
- Documentary evidence of right to work in the UK
- A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 26/02/2023
Reference ID: DYS218


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