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Volunteering and Community Manager

Employer
Not For Profit People
Location
South West Wales (homebased)
Salary
circa £17,100 per annum
Closing date
13 Sep 2019

Job Details

We’re looking to recruit to our clients Stroke Community Steps project - a 4-year Wales-wide initiative funded by a Big Lottery Fund People and Places grant.

Position: Volunteering and Community Steps Officer

Location: South West Wales (homebased)

Hours: 26 hours per week

Salary: circa £17,100 per annum

Contract: We currently have funding for this post until 31 March 2022

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Cycle2Work scheme, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 13 September 2019

Interview Date: 24 September 2019 in Carmarthen

The Role

Reporting to the Volunteering and Community Manager, the Volunteering and Community Steps Officer will work as part of the Community Steps project team and will:

 

  • As part of the role, be expected to implement volunteering, community activity and user engagement plans as agreed with local staff.
  • Create support services for stroke survivors in communities across Wales
  • Integrate service users in to existing services
  • Ensure stroke survivor’s needs are considered when local organisations and decision makers are creating or changing local facilities and activities.
  • Create peer support opportunities according to local need as identified by consultation and ongoing engagement with those affected by stroke.
  • Work with stroke survivors to identify suitable community activities and facilities and assist them to take part through increasing confidence and raising awareness of the needs of stroke survivors amongst providers.

 

About you

The Volunteering and Community Steps Officer will:

 

  • Be required to grow the community network by identifying new roles and opportunities and recruit and support new volunteers as agreed in the project plan.
  • Have a proven track record of ensuring that project information is captured through data monitoring, reporting and updating of CRM and other mediums as required.
  • Be expected to provide regular project updates and reports to the project manager and collect local case studies (volunteers, voluntary group members, people affected by stroke) and share with the Communications/PR team and produce content for social media
  • Be able to develop and disseminate tools to help people affected by stroke to campaign in their local area and develop links with local campaigning organisations where they exist.

 

The ability to converse written and orally through the medium of Welsh would be desirable.

This role is home based, please see our clients home working agreement for full details.

The use of a car with business cover insurance and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirement of the role.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. Our client offers a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About Us

Rebuilding lives after stroke.

Our client believes everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. They provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join the team.

You may also be interested in this role if you have worked in areas such as Volunteering Manager, Community Manager, Fundraising, Public Affairs, Policy, Volunteering, Volunteering Coordinator, Communities Manager.

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

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