Volunteer Recruitment and Training Manager

Volunteer Recruitment and Training Manager

Based South Ribble with travel across the 5 local authority areas (mainly based in Leyland/Chorley)

37 hours per week between Monday and Friday

£32,000.00 + 8% employer contribution to pension

Permanent

Our client is looking for someone with great interpersonal skills to recruit and train volunteers and support training for paid staff across their Charity.

This is a key role in the service to help increase volunteer capacity to allow the charity to reach more people that need help.

This role will develop lots of opportunities to recruit volunteers by use of:

• social media
• presentations to small groups
• running open days
• Attending events
• building a network of contacts within the 3rd sector

This role will support paid staff training provision and sourcing cost effective training solutions for both paid and voluntary staff as training needs arise. You should be confident in delivering training in small groups as well as providing one to one support and feedback. This role looks after all training administration and Training records for all staff and volunteers within the service.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have a background within the 3rd Sector, they should:

• have excellent IT skills
• be a self-motivated problem solver with creative ideas
• have an understanding of recruiting volunteers and managing a training provision within a 3rd sector (preferable)
• support their diversity and equal opportunities policies
• be confident in being able to challenge attitudes that would not fit in with our clients ethics

Benefits

• Salary £32,000.00 for 37 hours
• 21 days holidays + 8 bank holidays pro rata
• Extra week of annual leave (by annual increment) commencing after 4 complete years of service. A day (pro rata per year until you have an extra week.
• Additional discretionary leave for Christmas Closedown each year in addition to annual holidays
• 8% employer paid pension
• Salary sacrifice for employee pension contributions (optional for staff to contribute with NI saving from employer awarded to scheme)
• Employee Assistance programme with TELUS Health
• Free parking
• Reduced Gym membership with Chorley and South Ribble Leisure centres
• Travel from office base to client and return at 45 pence per mile

Our Client

• They are a local and national charity, they have 6 national offices and offer direct support to people in 280 independent local services across England and Wales
• They're there for everyone. Their advice helps people solve various problems in society
• They're listened too - they make a difference, they are a trusted brand whose quality research makes a real impact on behalf of the people that reply on them

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