* Fixed-term to 31st March 2026, 21 hours per week
Role
We are looking for a community-minded individual with a passion for engaging with people and communities. The Volunteering Development Worker will work within a small team to engage widely with organisations, families, and volunteers; this is to gather views on how children and families services can be enhanced through volunteering. To this purpose, the Team is currently exploring and discussing volunteer passport models and co-designing a Children and Families Services Volunteer Strategy.
Application notes
A Job description / Person specification is available here: Volunteer Development Worker JD and PS
To apply, fill in our application form here.
A Job description / Person specification is available to download below.
Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action strives to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Subject to a satisfactory PVG and references.
The deadline for submitting applications is Sunday 12th January.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 22nd January at Number Ten, 10 Constitution Road, Dundee.
Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface (CTSI) is a ‘single door’ TSI for the local authority area providing support to around 200 third sector member organisations in Clackmannanshire including charities, development trusts, community and voluntary groups, and social enterprises. CTSI is also responsible for promoting volunteering and supporting voluntary leadership.
We are looking for someone with enthusiasm, passion, and commitment to volunteering in Clackmannanshire. The role will be leading on one of our key strands of work – with an ambitious target to increase the number of people involved in volunteering and lead on the rollout of the new CTSI Volunteer Portal.
We need someone to be a team player, work with partners, listen and support volunteering-involving organisations and get the message out there – volunteering is for everyone!
About the role:
You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.
Key responsibilities:
1. Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.
2. Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging, and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
3. Actively support MCR young people to set, experience, then follow their education and employment pathways.
4. Evidence progression, impact, and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback, and qualitative case studies.
About you:
1. Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors, and local employers.
2. Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.
3. Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.
4. Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team, and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need.
5. An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.
6. Experience or knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.
You may have experience as a Youth, Community, or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open-minded, non-judgmental, resilient, and who is driven to improve outcomes for care-experienced and other vulnerable young people.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain in self-confidence, identify their skills, and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities, and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement, and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways:
1. 33 days annual leave in the first year rising to 38 days from the 2nd year of employment.
2. Additional day off for your birthday.
3. Living Pensions Employer.
4. Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
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