Senior Volunteer Coordinator

3 days ago

Kendal, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

**Role: Senior Volunteer Coordinator**

**Salary**:£22,500 per annum pro rata.

**Location**:Kendal, Cumbria.

**Contract/Hours**:Permanent Part-Time 22.2 hours per week (Flexibility available)

**Benefits**:

- Basic annual leave of** **29 days PLUS bank holidays (Pro rata).
- The option to buy another 5 days every year (Pro rata).
- Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- Up to 7% employer pension contribution. Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
- Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

**Why Action for Children?**

Action for Children is one of the UK's largest children's charities.

We believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 671,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

At Action for Children, we pride ourselves in being collaborative and inclusive. Are you passionate about changing the lives of children and young people to give them the best possible future?

**A bit about the role**:
Action for Children is commissioned by Westmorland and Furness Council to deliver a 0-19 Child and Family Support Service across the South Lakeland area of Westmorland and Furness. This service is commissioned until 31 March 2025 and we expect to know more about any proposed changes to this work, over the next few months.

We provide a range of universal information and advice services, (both face to face and online) as well as more targeted work with children and families where there is a need identified for additional support. Our staff team are based in Children's Centres across South Lakeland and work with children and families in their homes, in schools and other local community venues.

As a Senior Volunteer Coordinator, you will be co-ordinating the safer recruitment, induction, training, and supervision of volunteers, ensuring they are well equipped to carry out their roles competently and confidently. Our volunteers work alongside staff, delivering both targeted and universal support, to achieve positive and agreed outcomes for children, young people and families.

**You will make a difference by**:

- Being responsible for the co-ordination of a team of volunteers who will support a high quality 0-19 Child and Family Support Service.
- Advertising, recruiting, inducting and training volunteers from our South Lakeland communities, providing opportunities for them to support services.
- Directly line managing and supervise a caseload of volunteers using Action for Children approved procedures and paperwork.
- Communicating regularly with the colleagues and Managers to identify valuable volunteering roles across a range of universal and targeted interventions and by devising a ‘profile/job description' for that role.
- Establishing key links in local communities, identifying opportunities for delivery and liaising with potential sources of volunteers e.g. local colleges and HE providers, job centres and voluntary sector organisations.

**You will need**:

- Experience and/ or skills in volunteer recruitment, training and supervision would be an advantage.
- Experience of working in the local community.
- Ability to liaise with wide range of individuals (partner agencies).
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Positive and proactive approach.
- IT Literate.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding.
- Access to a suitable method of transport to enable the duties of the role to be carried out.

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