Volunteer Manager
Home-Based (Living in the Midlands, Greater London or North West - With some travel and some overnight stays)
About Us
Perennial is the nation's only charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture. Together with our network of partners, we provide free support, information, advice, financial assistance, and services for horticulturalists and their loved ones experiencing illness, disability, bereavement, family breakdown, and financial difficulties.
We have a real focus on improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of people working in horticulture and have an ambitious preventative strategy to create better futures for people working in horticulture.
We are now looking for a Volunteer Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £35,000 per annum
- 25 days' holiday, plus Bank Holidays (with increases for long service)
- Pension
- DIS benefit (3x salary)
- Sickness pay
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Well-established family friendly policies, including the ability to have extra unpaid leave
- Time off for dependants
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced volunteer manager to make a difference with our forward-thinking charity.
Your role will be instrumental in delivering a strategy that supports our mission to build better futures for those in the horticultural industry, empowering volunteers and directly contributing to the wellbeing of those we serve.
So, if you're ready to bring your creativity, vision and drive to a role where you can make a difference, we want to hear from you!
The Role
As a Volunteer Manager, you will lead the design and delivery of a long-term integrated volunteer service strategy for our services across the UK.
You'll work closely with internal and external partners to build a credible evidence base for our volunteering programmes, ensuring that volunteers are recruited, supported and rewarded, and enhancing the volunteer journey from recruitment onwards.
Developing volunteer policies, procedures and systems, you'll foster a safe culture with a core focus on continual improvement and impact and develop our service team of volunteers to enhance the impact of our work across the UK.
Additionally, you will:
- Lead on all aspects of day-to-day administration
- Develop reward and recognition programmes that celebrate volunteer success
- Develop effective partnerships, networks and joint working arrangements
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures
About You
To be considered as a Volunteer Manager, you will need:
- Experience of volunteer management and leading volunteer led service development and successful implementation
- Experience of developing volunteer strategies, policies and procedures and ensuring compliance across dispersed teams
- Experience of using research information and reliable data
- A track record of developing successful, effective partnerships and co-production of programmes at scale
- Project management experience
- Knowledge of safeguarding practice and procedures
- Excellent interpersonal skills
The closing date for this role is the 31st August 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Volunteer Co-ordinator, Volunteer Programme Manager, or Volunteer Services Manager.
Webrecruit and Perennial, Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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