Volunteer and School Recruitment Coordinator

**Volunteer and School Recruitment Coordinator**
- Office based in Bedford, with travel to volunteer and community events and schools. Flexible working
- £23,500 per annum
- 30 to 37.5 hours per week to be worked within 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday with 30-minute unpaid lunch break.
- Reports to: Senior Recruitment Coordinator

**Role Description**:
An exciting opportunity to become part of the operations team at Schoolreaders, a small, young, and fast-growing charity that is expanding to help more children learn to read across the country. The Schoolreaders operations team recruits’ volunteers from local communities and matches them to a primary school where they listen to children read on a one-to-one basis. We support over 27,000 children in over 1,300 schools every week with a Schoolreaders volunteer.

We are looking for a committed individual to join Schoolreaders to be part of the team delivering this vital support to schools, with the aim of supporting 35,000 children by the end of 2024/25. This role is to recruit primary schools and corresponding targeted volunteers in the specific counties and then support both parties to enable active volunteers to be in school listening to children read as soon as possible.

This is a pivotal role and will require adaptability. Your skills and experience will reflect volunteer and customer service ability, presenting skills, excellent organisational skills, a strong familiarity with telephone and on-line communication with the public, and excellent spoken and written English. You need to be competent with Excel and IT generally and it would be an advantage to have experience with the Salesforce CRM system. A background in the education sector would also be beneficial.

**Main purpose and scope of the job**:
**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Recruit schools within specific counties with particular focus on areas with the biggest need as per KPI’s.
- Recruit volunteers in specific areas within counties for schools as per annual targets and work to retain existing volunteers.
- Support the county volunteer teams to recruit volunteers in targeted areas.
- Build strong relationships with partner schools to develop on-going partnerships ensuring more volunteers are placed and retained by the school and more children reached.
- Engage and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders, including education organisations, multi-academy trusts, local authorities, and other organisations such as community groups to recruit both schools and volunteers in targeted areas.
- Arrange and chair occasional meetings for community groups and volunteers.
- Schools research, engagement and influencing. Support schools through the process from sign-up to having active volunteers in school each week, sharing best practice and advice on retention of volunteers.
- Actively promote the volunteering opportunity through events both online and in-person. Regularly attend in-person events where you will present and recruit volunteers and attend school recruitment opportunities as required. Occasionally these may be in the evenings.
- Plan and run campaigns and use social media to recruit volunteers.
- Produce regular county reports and project updates against targets.
- Coordinate and facilitate the delivery of the national Schoolreaders County team meetings biannually along with termly county zoom meetings.
- Identify relevant local media and liaise with the communications manager re placing articles as directed.
- Follow the operations systems and procedures. Support the operations team during peak times with volunteer interviews and engagement.
- Any other operational duties as requested by the Schoolreaders team.

**Essential skills**:

- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Confident presenting to a variety of audiences
- Friendly and professional telephone manner
- Strong administrative skills
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office Suite, in particular Excel and reporting
- Initiative and the ability to be tenacious when required
- Reliable and able to work on your own initiative
- Strong research and analytical skills
- Good time management and ability to prioritise tasks
- Understanding of the important role of volunteers
- Willing to undertake a full DBS check

**Desirable skills**:

- Experience of co-ordinating volunteers previously
- CRM Experience, i.e., Salesforce
- Previous experience working in an educational environment
- Social media experience

**What we offer**:
Employee assistance programme. Training and development opportunities. Changing children’s life chances through your work. Travel allowance, Staff away days, flexible working.

Schoolreaders is a charitable incorporated organisation registered in England and Wales (1159157)

**What you can expect**:
A highly rewarding, fast paced and engaging environment in a growing national children’s charity. Schoolreaders is a highly professional charity which values every team-member’s contribution to