Are you a ‘people person’ with a knack for building strong, collaborative relationships? Do you have excellent administration and organisational skills, enabling you to balance lots of competing priorities? Do you want to enable volunteers to have big impact on their communities? Then join Shelter as a Corporate Volunteering Programme Coordinator and you could soon be playing a vital role in the fight for home.
About the role
Helping people to prepare for and manage financial health shocks is vital to Shelter’s work in preventing homelessness. As part of our efforts to reach vulnerable people earlier, our corporate volunteers are delivering Money Information Sessions in their local communities, signposting people to the housing advice they need.
With a focus on the Birmingham area, you will play a key part in supporting our national Financial Health Volunteer programme, helping volunteers provide vital support to individuals and communities in need. You’ll be the driving force behind ensuring that our volunteers are well-supported, matched with the right organisations, and have a smooth and rewarding volunteer experience.
About you
In this role, you will work closely with our financial corporate partners, including HSBC, to engage their employees and support them into the role of Financial Health Volunteer to increase the number of people volunteering. Focusing on the Birmingham area, you will forge relationships with local organisations to identify suitable host locations for the volunteers to deliver with. You will coordinate the sessions with the host locations, matching up volunteers with locations. You will provide national administrative support for the programme, managing all elements of the volunteer journey through our database. Finally, you will take responsibility for collating feedback from the volunteers and host organisations, making suggestions for improvements and feeding into impact measurement.
Please refer to the Job Description attached at the bottom of the advert for more details on the skills and experience we’re looking for.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
In the Volunteering Team we support the mobilisation of volunteers to deliver Shelter’s strategic priorities. We are a collaborative and supportive team sitting in Shelter’s Equity, Inclusion & Culture Directorate. We are passionate about the positive impacts of volunteering for both individuals and our cause. We enable best practice approaches to volunteer involvement; ensuring all our volunteers have a quality volunteering experience.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.