🌟 Join Our Team as a Project Worker 2 - Volunteer Coordinator 🌟
At G-old Sure Start, we know the power of community. For over 24 years, we've been supporting families with children under 4 across Mid Ulster, delivering high-quality, inclusive services that focus on early learning, positive parenting, health, wellbeing, and family connection.
Now, we're looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to join our passionate team. This is a rewarding role where you'll play a vital part in shaping, growing, and celebrating the contribution of volunteers who make such a difference to children and families in our catchment area
As Volunteer Coordinator, you will:
1. Recruit, train, and support volunteers for our Early Years Programmes and our Breastfeeding Peer Support Service.
2. Provide ongoing guidance and supervision, ensuring volunteers feel confident, valued, and supported.
3. Build strong partnerships with community groups, schools, colleges, and health professionals to promote volunteering.
4. Organise recognition and celebration events that showcase the impact of volunteering.
5. Act as the first point of contact for new volunteers, helping them feel welcome and connected.
This is a varied and people-focused role, perfect for someone who enjoys bringing people together and empowering them to make a difference.
Please see the attached Additional Information Sheet for further details.
Applicants must demonstrate on their application how they meet the Essential Criteria below to ensure selection for interview:
Essential Criteria
6. Experience of supervising staff or volunteers
7. Experience of record keeping and reporting data using IT systems (e.g. Excel, Word)
8. Experience of delivering talks or presentations to audiences
9. The post holder will need to travel across the Mid Ulster area, so a full driving licence, access to a car and business insurance are essential. *As driving is an intrinsic part of this role, applicants with a disability that prevents them from driving should be able to demonstrate an alternative means of meeting the mobility requirements of the post.
10. Flexibility is essential – some evening and occasional weekend work will be required to meet the needs of volunteers and the families they support
Desirable Criteria
11. Experience of recruitment and induction processes for staff or volunteers
Location: Cookstown base with travel across the Mid Ulster area
Salary: £28,124.46 - £37,116.78 FTE (full-time equivalent)
Hours of Work: 20 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Midnight,2nd November 2025
Contact:
Waiting List: A waiting list of applicants will be compiled for similar posts arising in the next 12 months.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Access NI with Child Barred List check. Social Services vetting will also be required.
Please note, due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend applying as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
12. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
13. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
14. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
15. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
16. Service related sick pay from day 1
17. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
18. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
19. Cycle2work scheme
20. Interest free season ticket loans
21. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
22. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
23. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
24. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
25. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's