Volunteer Development Manager

We Are With You

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Job summary

We're looking for collaborative, innovative individuals, who are ready to join With You during a time of pivotal change and exciting developments. A full job description and person specification is available on request.

Main duties of the job

Essential Skills We're looking for substantial experience working within the voluntary sector, as well as experience of leading and managing a voluntary programme. You will have strong knowledge of best practice in volunteer management, with the ability to support colleagues to deliver high quality volunteering experiences. You will be highly organised, with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively. As part of this role, you will be required to produce and analyse statistics and create reports on volunteer activity, so a keen eye for detail is essential.

About us

About Company Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health. At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online. We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year. We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support. We Are With You.

Date posted

24 November 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£30,000 to £36,250 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

recroot-5495-48345-17

Job locations

Farringdon

City of London

EC1M 4DH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Diversity Statement As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans. As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role. If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

This role is home-based and includes occasional travel to our services across England and Scotland.
Reporting into our new Head of Volunteering and Client Engagement, we are recruiting for two Volunteer Development Managers, to join us on initial fixed term contracts for 12 months. If you are a passionate advocate for the impact that volunteers can have and want to join a forward-thinking charity, with the aim of radically improving outcomes for our clients, we want to hear from you.

Experience

Essential

Working closely with the Head of Volunteering and Client Engagement, you will utilise your extensive knowledge of volunteering to inform and contribute to the development and implementation of a new volunteering strategy. With your strong background in volunteer management, you'll help us to design, develop and pilot new volunteer opportunities across the charity. The Volunteer Development Manager will also be responsible for delivering a number of projects to help transform and modernise our volunteering offer, leading development and innovation for all of our services.
As well as this, your role will involve:
Providing advice and consultancy on volunteering to other functions within the charity and with wider sector partners
Leading on delivery and maintenance of systems and processes to support volunteer involvement
Developing and revising volunteer policies, procedures and working practices to bring about organisational change in volunteering involvement
Working with the Learning and Development Team to ensure the charity's volunteer training programme is strategic, accessible to a wide range of groups and focused on learning, engagement and wellbeing
Leading on the development and delivery of the charity's volunteer recognition programme, along with promoting volunteer successes across communication channels, celebrating the impact of volunteers and promoting a culture of shared learning
Your expertise will be instrumental in supporting our services to manage their volunteers effectively and in line with best practice. This is a role that will make a tangible difference to the work that we do and will assist With You in achieving our ambitious goals for volunteering involvement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

This role is home-based and includes occasional travel to our services across England and Scotland.
Reporting into our new Head of Volunteering and Client Engagement, we are recruiting for two Volunteer Development Managers, to join us on initial fixed term contracts for 12 months. If you are a passionate advocate for the impact that volunteers can have and want to join a forward-thinking charity, with the aim of radically improving outcomes for our clients, we want to hear from you.

Experience

Essential

Working closely with the Head of Volunteering and Client Engagement, you will utilise your extensive knowledge of volunteering to inform and contribute to the development and implementation of a new volunteering strategy. With your strong background in volunteer management, you'll help us to design, develop and pilot new volunteer opportunities across the charity. The Volunteer Development Manager will also be responsible for delivering a number of projects to help transform and modernise our volunteering offer, leading development and innovation for all of our services.
As well as this, your role will involve:
Providing advice and consultancy on volunteering to other functions within the charity and with wider sector partners
Leading on delivery and maintenance of systems and processes to support volunteer involvement
Developing and revising volunteer policies, procedures and working practices to bring about organisational change in volunteering involvement
Working with the Learning and Development Team to ensure the charity's volunteer training programme is strategic, accessible to a wide range of groups and focused on learning, engagement and wellbeing
Leading on the development and delivery of the charity's volunteer recognition programme, along with promoting volunteer successes across communication channels, celebrating the impact of volunteers and promoting a culture of shared learning
Your expertise will be instrumental in supporting our services to manage their volunteers effectively and in line with best practice. This is a role that will make a tangible difference to the work that we do and will assist With You in achieving our ambitious goals for volunteering involvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.