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SalaryVolunteer and Community Engagement CoordinatorSouthend on Sea
30 hours per week (part-time)
Grade 2: £24,724 to £27,232 per annum pro rata
Temporary contract until 31st March 2025
Are you passionate about working with communities to enable them to engage in volunteering opportunities? Our client is looking for a new team member to support the growth of volunteers in their Southend services.
Your impact
By being the champion for volunteers in their Southend services, you will collaborate with
communities, local businesses and partner organisations to achieve a pool of volunteers who undertake wide and varied roles that build on their existing skills and strengths.
Your skills
You’ll be an effective communicator, who excels at building trusting and empowering relationships with individuals and groups. You will be able to work closely with the community and a variety of stakeholders to identify potential volunteers and develop new volunteer roles using a strength-based approach.
Our client is committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that they do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities, because they are committed to increasing the representation of these groups. They know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results and strive for their workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities they support. They offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse any reasonable travel costs associated with attending an interview.
What will our client offer you?
They offer flexible working hours, a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. They have an excellent wellbeing offer and will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. They have staff diversity networks that offer peer support and contribute to the strategic development of EDI. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion and encourages learning.
Our client is forward-looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. They are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all they do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills, then they look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: Monday 8th April 9am
Interview date: Week commencing 15th April
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.
