Volunteer Development Manager-INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY-
An exciting volunteer management role to deliver our volunteer strategy to grow, expand and engage volunteering for the best volunteer experience that makes the greatest positive impact for people affected by cancer.
The Volunteer Development Manager job:
As our specialist lead you’ll be championing and representing volunteering making sure a key strategic aim is delivered in this area of our work.
Taking the lead when it comes to growing our volunteer numbers, engaging volunteering across the organisation and empowering volunteers makes this a key role in our work and furthering our presence and reputation in the voluntary sector.
It’s an important job in bringing our volunteer strategy to life. You’ll be responsible for exploring and building external and internal partnership working and sponsorship opportunities that support volunteer success, development and empowerment.
It’s also all about the celebration, recognition and giving thanks to our volunteers so their volunteer experience is meaningful, equal and inclusive. And, making sure people are supported to achieve their goals through our strategy and our volunteer policies and processes are embedded and fit for purpose.
Much of the job is about effective communication and keeping up to date with changes and developments in the external voluntary sector. You’ll represent the organisation in sector working groups, promote volunteering through delivering presentations, training, talks and engagement opportunities and make sure our policies and procedures are effective and relevant.
Line managing a team and how you go about collaborating and working with other colleagues at all levels, problem solving, negotiating and networking means this is a busy and public facing role involving home and office working and regularly being out across our Welsh communities.
In this Volunteer Development manager job you can expect to be doing things like:
- Line managing staff and supervising a team of volunteers
- Making sure other volunteer managers are supported in developing their own volunteer teams and the value of volunteer contribution is understood and engaged with
- Preparing cultivation plans across teams and departments and making sure our policies and processes are fit for purpose and embedded
- Interacting at a high professional level with internal and external stakeholders such as the WCVA, universities and senior managers to represent volunteering and be our leading voice
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to foster and support our one team working ethos to support your own work in delivering the volunteer strategy and develop other area’s work delivery
- Volunteer event management and risk assessing such as our Annual Volunteer Awards
- Promoting volunteer recruitment and engagement opportunities across communities including attending in person events and talks and running creative recruitment campaigns
- Spotting opportunities to engage volunteers and managing projects through working with colleagues and volunteers
- Using your natural leadership and people engagement skills to inspire, celebrate and motivate potential volunteers to join US or continue their journey with US and demonstrate our company values through the way you go about performing
We’re open to discuss your available weekly working hours and would prefer you to be available to work between 28 – 35 hours a week flexibly so days and hours can be built in and around our standard operating week as set out in our staff benefits. Although there is home and office working you need to be flexible to travel across all our volunteer communities.
We’d like your CV and a Covering Letter to demonstrate how you have done this type of Volunteer Management role already and match the job essentials. We’re looking for skills to show us you’ve:
- Line management experience when it comes to of staff and volunteers
- Worked in a volunteer management centric role involving recruiting volunteers and supporting others to manage and develop volunteers
- Been involved in designing volunteer inductions and best practice volunteer support and development work
- Worked with others in delivering volunteer policies and processes such as safeguarding
- Handled volunteer related paperwork and managed a volunteer database or CRM
- Been involved in volunteer recognition work and promoting and / or representing volunteering to external and internal stakeholders
The Full Job Description and Person Specification:
https://www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/media/x4chk0h3/volunteer-development-manager-oct-2024.pdf
The Logistics
- Full/part time 28 - 35 hours per week flexibly (please note your available working hours on your application)
- £26,000 - £28,000 (based on a full time 35 hour week)
- Apply by: 20th October with CV & Covering Letter to demonstrate where you meet the essential requirements
- Interviews held in our Cardiff Head Office from the 21st October
Your Staff Benefits
In return you’ll be part of a people orientated culture, make impact through a worthwhile cause and have Staff Benefits such as:
- Core working hours 11am-3pm to fit work your lifestyle and personal life around our 7am-9pm general operating hours (flexibility in this type of role required around events)
- Super flexible place of work options with no minimum Cardiff Head Office weekly attendance requirement although we encourage as much in office work as possible
- A generous 35 days annual leave including public holidays that increases with length of service (pro rata’d for part time staff)
- Your birthday off work once you’ve been here for 12 months.
- Opportunity to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave per year
- Occupational sick pay after completion of probationary period
- Contributory pension scheme
- A tailored induction and support programme to help you succeed and excel
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering access to 24/7 confidential advice and support
- The opportunity to participate in staff volunteer activities to support the wider organisation
- The opportunity to learn from, grow with, support and develop people who volunteer with US
About us
Around 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales every year. We’re proud to support over 10% of those and we want to be there many more.
We give help, hope, and a voice to everyone affected by cancer. We understand how cancer can impact every aspect of life and how it affects families and friends too. Our wide range of services offer information, advice, and specialist support to people living with cancer, and their loved ones.
We’re committed to listening to the real experiences of people affected by cancer in Wales to drive the changes that make a difference.
More about US
At Tenovus Cancer Care we’re committed to making our workplace diverse and inclusive where everyone feels they belong and can be their authentic selves at work. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer who does not discriminate based on the Equality Act 2010’s Protected Characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and we will adjust our recruitment processes where we can to support people who wish to join us.
When our people talk about working here they’re proud to reflect our values. They’ll use words such as friendly, fun and welcoming to describe their experience and love our work culture around job flexibility. As well as it being a nice place to work for a good cause the staff benefits are good. On top of the above we’ve got a stylish Head Office in the heart of Cardiff and things to support you in and out of work like an interactive induction programme, an accessible Learning Platform, development opportunities and experienced managers. Plus a Staff Social Committee who organise regular get togethers!
Your Personal Data
We’re committed to being transparent about how we collect and use that data and to meeting our data protection obligations and you can find full details about this in our Job Application Privacy Notice here on our Work for us page on the Tenovus Cancer website.
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