Working closely with our Volunteer Development Manager you’ll join an experienced and friendly HR team to champion and represent volunteering as you support the delivery of a key strategic aim of our work.
With real experience along the lines of a general HR or volunteer centred role already you’ll be used to IT and working with electronic databases, running volunteer management processes, aligning organisational policies and getting creative with recruitment campaigns.
Quite a bit of the role involves admin but as the role evolves and our strategy takes shape you’ll be out and about across communities too.
We aim to be people’s first port of call to volunteer so you’re someone passionate about this, promoting the value of volunteering, its impact to our work and how volunteers are welcomed, supported, developed and recognised at all times.
Creating inclusive volunteer programmes where people feel engaged and fulfilled in the volunteering they do or when they supervise volunteers is important to all we do here. So, you’ll work with all our communities, volunteers and business areas to do this when it comes to implementing new ideas, supporting existing volunteer campaigns, ways we engage with our volunteers and develop current opportunities.
Typical work areas will involve training, coaching and customer service, collaboration and relationship building internally and externally, running and delivering creative recruitment campaigns, delivering talks, volunteer process compliance, monitoring and data work. You’ll get directly involved in our recognition work and settling differences too.
In this Volunteer Officer job you can expect to be doing things like:
Working with external partners and in local communities delivering talks and presentations about volunteering
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to foster and support our one team working ethos to support delivering our volunteer strategy
Supporting our volunteer thanking and recognition events such as our Annual Volunteer Awards
Promoting volunteer recruitment and engagement opportunities across communities including attending in person events and talks
Planning and running creative and effective volunteer recruitment campaigns as well as recruiting for ad hoc volunteering roles or working with our employer volunteering groups
Supporting recruitment, induction and development of the department’s own volunteers
Admin and computer work such as running and producing reports, writing and placing adverts and interpreting data to make practical business recommendations
We’re open to discuss weekly working hours and how they can fit in with your lifestyle and the needs of the role too. We do need Monday cover in the role but flexibility also means we’re super flexible so the 28 weekly hours can be built in and around our standard operating week as set out in our staff benefits. Although there is home and office working you need to be flexible to travel across our volunteer communities.
The Full Job Description and Person Specification:
The Logistics
28 hours per week flexibly with a Monday working requirement (please note your available working hours on your application)
£19,040 (£23,800 based on a full time 35 hour week)
Apply by: 26th November with CV & Covering Letter to demonstrate where you meet the essential requirements
Interviews held in our Cardiff Head Office – 3rd December
Your Staff Benefits
Core working hours 11am-3pm to fit work your lifestyle and personal life around our 7am-9pm general operating hours (flexibility in this type of role required around events)
Super flexible place of work options with no minimum Cardiff Head Office weekly attendance requirement although we encourage as much in office work as possible
A generous 35 days annual leave including public holidays that increases with length of service (pro rata’d for part time staff)
Your birthday off work once you’ve been here for 12 months.
Opportunity to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave per year
Occupational sick pay after completion of probationary period
Contributory pension scheme
A tailored induction and support programme to help you succeed and excel
An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering access to 24/7 confidential advice and support
About us
Around 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales every year. We’re proud to support over 10% of those and we want to be there many more.
We give help, hope, and a voice to everyone affected by cancer. We understand how cancer can impact every aspect of life and how it affects families and friends too. Our wide range of services offer information, advice, and specialist support to people living with cancer, and their loved ones.
We’re committed to listening to the real experiences of people affected by cancer in Wales to drive the changes that make a difference.
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