Business Development Projects Manager

Do you have a passion for volunteering and want to make a difference? Are you looking for an opportunity to lead on volunteering at a national charity? 

If your answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity that could be perfect for you. We need a National Project Manager to join the Central Support Team working 21 hours per week on a fixed term contract. There will be some travel required to support regional coordinators within England and Wales.

The role will oversee the delivery of a joint project with a major corporate partner which will ensure that hard-to-reach communities are aware of how to make the digital switchover from analogue phone landlines. Using the huge reach of Neighbourhood Watch and our energetic volunteers, we aim to communicate on a one-to-one basis using community-based events.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget and meets high quality standards, maintaining project and monitoring documentation.

You will lead a small team of regional coordinators, providing support and guidance and ensure the profile and development of volunteering is in line with the organisation's needs.

This role is a hybrid one with homeworking and occasional travel within England and Wales alongside regular travel to London.
In this post you will be:

• overseeing the project and managing its documentation
• managing the project budget (with support from finance)
• responsible for delivering key project objectives
• line-managing a small number of home-based volunteer coordinators working across geographical regions, and providing guidance and advice to them
• supporting and developing volunteers from Neighbourhood Watch groups to deliver local information sessions for the digital switchover across in their area/region
• leading on national project engagement activities, working closely with the central support team and our national corporate partner to ensure these activities are delivered
• supporting volunteer coordinators to have the knowledge, skills and training to effectively manage volunteers
• raising the profile of Neighbourhood Watch volunteering internally and externally
• undertaking reporting and analysis on a range of activities including events and providing updates to meetings and project documentation
• presenting to volunteers

What we need from the ideal candidate:

• knowledge of volunteering best practice, trends and developments
• experience in advising and leading those managing volunteers
• highly numerate and able to present statistics in a digestible format
• excellent communication skills with the ability to present well to audiences
• experience of managing a team and volunteer management
• experience in managing challenging stakeholders
• to be highly organised and able to manage broad and conflicting priorities and tasks

Experience of working in a variety of voluntary/charitable organisations would be advantageous.

Benefits of working for Neighbourhood Watch include

• Flexible working hours
• Stakeholder Pension
• Cyclescheme
• Techscheme