Volunteering Support Officer
Location
Belfast | United Kingdom
Job description
Employer Location: Antrim
Phone Number: 02890232020
Email: [email protected]
Job description
Responsible for promoting volunteering and providing a support service for volunteers and volunteer involving organisations in the Belfast, North Down & Ards and Lisburn & Castlereagh Council areas..
Responsibilities
- Contribute to effective team work within the Community Engagement Team and across the organisation.
- Support the driving scheme within Belfast to ensure effective delivery and management.
- Implement annual operational plans for volunteering infrastructure support.
- Implement agreed systems for measuring, monitoring and reporting performance against key performance indicators and outcomes.
- Represent Volunteer Now as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and income generation across the organisation.
- Support the recruitment and involvement of volunteers by facilitating activities eg mobile volunteering, one-off volunteering opportunities, campaigns.
- Support organisations to develop and promote innovative ways of involving volunteers eg Turn Up and Try.
- Support effective facilitation of a web based matching service between organisations and individuals using Be Collective and other Volunteer Now systems.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Can successfully support the promotional activities of Volunteer Now, particularly increase in the number of volunteers and diversity of volunteer opportunities.
- Ability to work with organisations to develop and promote volunteer opportunities.
- Ability to effectively recruit and support volunteers.
- Can successfully use and develop database and website information tools, including manage and review content, to meet organisational objectives.
- Hold a full driving licence and/or access to a form of transport which will enable the post holder to carry out the duties of the post effectively.
- Third level education or three years experience in the last five years of encouraging volunteering, supporting volunteers and volunteer involving organisations.
Further Information
Please download application pack from Volunteer now's website.
Job tags
Salary
£24.5k per annum
