Volunteer Assistant Administrator

2 weeks ago


West London, United Kingdom Octavia Foundation Full time

Octavia works with people affected by unemployment, ill health, social isolation, or low income to connect them with opportunities for positive personal change. Our vision is to build stronger, happier, and healthier communities in central and west London to help create an enriched life where we live.

**Reasons to volunteer**

Would you like to assist the Octavia Communities team in recruiting, preparing, and supporting our wonderful befriending, shops, office and youth volunteers?
- You will make a difference in supporting volunteers through their journey.
- You will work with our volunteers, recruiting partners, and stakeholders alongside team members.
- You should be able to demonstrate empathy, patience, decision making and a willingness to keep up with constant changes.
- Full induction, ongoing training, and support will be provided. This includes training on processes and procedures, health and safety and safeguarding.
- This is an opportunity to enhance your CV and to learn new skills, such as working with partners and stakeholders, supporting volunteers, assisting with the development of recruitment processes and procedures, and researching new resources.
- We can provide references to employers and/or further and higher education establishments.
- Travel and refreshment expenses reimbursed on the provision of receipts following our policies and procedures. *

**What would I be doing?**

In your volunteering role, for a broad experience of supporting volunteering projects and to assist the team, you can expect the following:

- Being in person at the office in Emily House for a minimum of 1 day a week (core hours are typically between 09:00 am and 5:00 pm, to be agreed between volunteer and supervisor).
- Supporting volunteers through the recruitment process.
- Assist with updating our volunteer database.
- Assist with research and identifying trends in volunteering data. Gain valuable feedback from volunteers.
- You may also have the opportunity to assist with producing the volunteer newsletter.
- You may have the opportunity to attend wider community events.
- You must practice confidentiality.

**What skills are we looking for?**
- Good communication skills.
- Empathy and understanding the needs of vulnerable residents.
- Understanding of confidentiality.
- Able to use own initiative, reliable and trustworthy.
- Basic IT skills, comfortable using Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Excel, and Word.

**Sounds great How do I sign up?**

**Job Type**: Volunteer

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Volunteer Assistant Administrator



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