An introduction to the role
As our Volunteer Coordinator, you will lead the delivery and development of our highly successful Grandmentors programme in Perth and Kinross.
Grandmentors is an innovative, inter-generational mentoring project where older volunteers (normally but not exclusively aged 50+) use their wealth of life experience and skills to mentor young people aged 16-26 who are care experienced, or facing other life challenges.
These young people often benefit from a guiding hand and role model to support them to find work, continue their education, begin training, enhance their wellbeing, or develop their independent living skills - ultimately giving young people the empowerment and self-belief to lead successful lives.
Grandmentors is a national project which has operated for almost 15 years in various locations of the UK. We launched in Perth and Kinross in 2022. Further information on Grandmentors can be found online.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
* Consistently role model and display our organisational values (Being Positive, Inclusive, Empowering, Compassionate, Straightforward). Contribute to effective teamwork across the staff team and the wider charity, in line with our “flexible working by default” and “self-managed teams” philosophy.
* Develop and deliver the Grandmentors programme in Perth and Kinross, meeting ambitious goals and milestones, ensuring all young people engaged achieve positive outcomes.
* Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including colleagues, volunteer mentors, young people, Social Services, Health and Education teams, third sector partners, and others.
* Effective recruitment, selection, training, and ongoing support of a diverse pool of talented and dedicated volunteer mentors from a wide cross-section of the community.
* Maintain Volunteering Matters standards around quality and effective Volunteer Management.
* Manage all elements of young people’s experience of Grandmentors, from point of referral to completion of their mentoring journey.
* Manage the risk assessment, safeguarding, quality assurance, and audit processes as appropriate.
* Ensure monitoring, impact, and evaluation information and data is collected and that Grandmentors meets its agreed goals, reporting format, and schedule.
* Administration tasks including maintaining effective and accessible records via a Volunteering Database, and the use of Microsoft Office, Teams, Zoom, Canva, and other relevant software.
* Develop relevant promotional material and information for Grandmentors and for our organisation locally.
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