Corporate Community Volunteering Manager/ Co-ordinator
Location
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom
Job description
We are seeking a volunteer who will relish the opportunity to co-ordinate and manage our Corporate Volunteering Days and play an active role in shaping the development and sustainability of this project within the community.
What will you be doing?
This role will involve attracting and brokering connections with corporate volunteers and new community sectors to transform indoor and outdoor community spaces, co-ordinating volunteers to help provide positive change in the community. Volunteering may include creating or renovating outdoor spaces at schools and/or community hubs, transforming indoor spaces or just providing a couple of hours to give other community groups a helping hand. Your role will encompass engaging with new/existing corporates involved in the project, planning and organising a volunteering events schedule, risk management and feedback and follow up after the event.
At present we organise between 6-10 volunteering events a year. Your help, experience and expertise will play a pivotal role in our organisation’s development, by attracting volunteers, helping to promote the work that we do and connecting and embedding our organisation within the community.
What are we looking
for?
Teamwork
- We are seeking someone who is reliable, with shared ethics and values to support this project voluntarily.
- General Interest, skills and abilities in practical DIY, gardening and a desire to help improve the natural environment and biodiversity within the community
- Creative minded and self-motivated, ability to complete work within project timescales.
- Strong interpersonal, team and partnership working skills.
- Self-directed, able to prioritise workload and adapt to changes.
- Organised with the ability to develop effective processes to manage data and co-ordinate tasks.
Project Management
- Organisational, time and project management skills.
- Ideally, experience with leading and managing practical projects, working with volunteers in the social sector and/or corporate sector.
- Self-directed, able to prioritise workload and adapt to new opportunities.
- Preferably, experience in project participation and evaluation.
Communications & Networking
- Strong communication skills, including a good standard of literacy, numeracy and experience of producing reports, and presenting information to a good standard.
- Proficient /competent in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power-point or equivalent.
- Able to engage and attract corporate volunteers and community hosts.
What difference will you make?
- This role offers huge potential to drive change and empower our community from within. You will be engaging with organisations to actively participate in improving the environment that surrounds them.
- As much of the volunteering events will include a degree of physical work of some kind, the transformation to the host organisation and community at large will be directly visible and tangible to yourself and the volunteers, which provides a great sense of satisfaction and achievement.
- Gain new experience and connections within multiple sectors within the community.
- Help and positively change people’s lives, offering a sense of achievement, community spirit and wellbeing to all.
- Be part of a passionate, dedicated, supportive and nurturing team.
- Be instrumental in transitioning this Community Interest Company into a sustainable community organisation for the future.
- Your help and experience will play a pivotable role in our organisation’s development, by attracting new volunteers, promoting the work that we do and most importantly, connecting and embedding our organisation within the community.
Before you apply
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