Membership and Training Co-ordinator

**Recruitment Information Pack**

**Membership & Training Co-ordinator**

To apply:
Your statement should be no longer than three pages.

For more information please see the Application Guidelines on our website.

**_Thank You_**

Thank you for your interest in Rushmoor Voluntary Services (RVS). This information pack should provide all the information that you need but please don’t hesitate to contact our CEO, Donna Bone if you need further details.

We are also able to be flexible on some aspects of the role so we would encourage you to contact Donna if you would like to discuss the role or person specification in more detail.

**_About Us_**

Established as a registered charity in 1971, RVS are the Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) in Rushmoor. Our role in the community is to champion volunteering and to support any voluntary or community group working in the Borough of Rushmoor.

We support our members by creating networks; our well attended quarterly Voluntary Sector Forum is testament to this. We provide support with volunteer recruitment and training, plus maintaining good practice.

RVS manage a number of projects that provide community benefit. These include:

- Blooming Marvellous - a supported volunteering gardening project.
- Community Transport - which includes scheduled passenger services and a group-hire minibus scheme for Rushmoor & Hart.
- HIV in Hampshire - emotional and practicable support to people living with HIV.
- Home Help - providing shopping and light housework to frail, elderly and disabled people.

We work in close partnership with various organisations including our core funders Rushmoor Borough Council and Hampshire County Council.

RVS are members of the Hampshire Council of Voluntary Services (CVS) Network, an alliance of eight organisations who work together to help Hampshire’s charities, community groups and social enterprises to succeed and flourish. We collaborate in a local cluster with Hart and Basingstoke CVSs.

**_Our Mission_**

In partnership with the voluntary, statutory and business sectors, enabling all the people of Rushmoor to play a full and active part in the life of the local community.

**_Where we Work_**

The area we cover for our CVS services includes Aldershot and Farnborough, along the Blackwater Valley in the north east corner of Hampshire.

Over 300 organisations and groups from this area are members of RVS.

Many of our support services cover areas of Hart, something which we wish to proactively increase.

Our office is within the Civic Offices alongside Rushmoor Borough Council and other key organisations supporting the community of Rushmoor.

**_Our Team_**

We began a period of significant change during 2019; our new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Community Development Manager (CDM) were appointed to replace their long-standing predecessors. In August 2019 we moved to our new office base within the Civic Offices which has enabled us to work closer with our key stakeholder, Rushmoor Borough Council. We recruited an Operations Manager in January 2021 to develop the client services.

The current paid staff team comprises of various - mostly part-time - roles which are supported by a team of volunteers.

**_The Role_**

To further those achievements, the aim of this new role is to support the community development approach to forming a Volunteer Hub, creating a first-rate service for our volunteers and member organisations. The role will improve our efficiency and bring the organisation into the 21stcentury.

The aim of the role is to support community development and volunteering in Rushmoor. Reporting to the CDM, you will support the team by:

- administering training and communications, and
- facilitating the delivery of resources to benefit the local voluntary sector.

You will work 21 hours per week, the majority of this will be during traditional office hours but you may occasionally be required to be available outside of these hours.

**_The Benefits_**

As well as working in a long established and community focussed organisation, you will be based in a friendly office environment with free parking and excellent coffee Some home working may be available as we transition to hybrid arrangements.

We offer:

- A salary of circa £11,800 p.a. (£19,700, full-time equivalent), according to relevant experience.
- Mileage and out-of-pocket expenses undertaken on behalf of RVS, paid in accordance with the Inland Revenue mileage rates for business travel, e.g. 45p per mile for travel by car.
- 23 days paid annual leave rising to 28 after five years’ service, plus statutory days, pro-rata. Three of these days must be taken between Christmas and New Year when the office is closed, unless operational demands require you to work during this time and the three days will then be taken in January.
- An incrementally increasing period of sick pay in accordance with length of service.
- Free parking during working hours.

**_Job Description_**

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