Are you passionate about the power of volunteering to protect, promote and enhance our countryside?

Volunteering Development Assistant
Location: National office (London N1) or home based, with regular travel
Salary: £23,692 (£29,616 FTE) for a role based in their National Office in London or £20,335.20 (£25,419 FTE) for a home-based role 4 days a week outside of the London travel to work area. There will be monthly travel to meetings in London.

Our client's Volunteering Development Assistant provides excellent customer care to people from all walks of life who volunteer. You’ll work with the network of over 40 county-based charities and with their national charity to expand how they campaign for the countryside through volunteering.

This varied role helps to deliver their volunteering strategy, to find a way in for everyone to care for the countryside. You’ll be dealing directly with enquiries from volunteers and those supporting them, managing the volunteering inbox and providing their first line response.

This role offers plenty of opportunity to develop - you’ll learn how to use their volunteer management system Assemble, and support others to make the best use of the system. You’ll be given training on their intranet contact management system and help them curate their volunteer training resources. You’ll need to be organised and open to learning about digital tools, from design software like Canva to Teams Planner.

You’ll also have the opportunity to support their successful Volunteer Awards programme, so great written and communication skills will be key to making sure they gather impactful nominations and case studies. Telling volunteer stories is a key part of this role, and your use of written and video case studies will help them celebrate a diversity range of volunteers.

You’ll be familiar with the ways social media can help them promote the impact of volunteering, and you’ll be supporting the team to make sure new colleagues get a great welcome and induction to their movement. You’ll be adept at collaborative working, and you’ll be supportive of increasing the diversity of people who volunteer. You’ll be given 2 paid days a year to pursue your own volunteering as part of this role.

They place high value on equality. They treat everyone with respect and consideration because they know it’s the right thing to do. They also know that diverse teams make much better decisions, are more creative and more stimulating to work in. So, if you join them, you will be able to help them put equality, the environment and diversity at the centre of everything they do. They hope you like the sound of the job and will take the time to apply!

Closing date: Midday Thursday 30 January 2025
Interviews: Wednesday 12 February 2025

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

They are an equal opportunities employer.

No agencies please.