Job Title: Head of Volunteering
Reporting To: Assistant Director of Network Development and Impact
Manages: Volunteering Development Manager, Volunteering Development Officer
Location: Remote (occasional travel to Leicester office & other UK locations as necessary)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £48,000-£54,000 per annum (to ensure fairness and consistency, new colleagues usually start at the first point of the pay band for their role. This helps us maintain a clear and equitable approach to pay for everyone joining our team).
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week, flexible).
About Home-Start UK
Home-Start is a federated charity consisting of a central national office – Home-Start UK - and over 170 geographically dispersed local Home-Start organisations, all working together under the same identity.
We recognise that being a parent has never been easy. Every Home-Start volunteer is trained to work alongside parents to overcome the challenges they are facing. We work with parents to build on their strengths and give them the support that they tell us they need. We offer no judgement – just compassionate, confidential help and expert support. This peer-to-peer support is key to the difference Home-Start makes and often our volunteers have lived experience of the challenges their families are facing themselves.
About The Role
Head of Volunteering is a key leadership role for Home-Start UK at a critical time as we work with our network, partners and supporters to develop the new, federation-wide strategy ready to launch next year.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
* Develop and deliver our volunteering strategy, provide strong leadership for volunteering across our network, and champion Home-Start volunteering externally to support our strategic aims.
* Define a high-quality programme of support to enhance volunteering practice and improve volunteer recruitment, retention and experience across the Home-Start federation.
* Lead our small but mighty Volunteering Team and, as a member of Home-Start UK’s Leadership Team, promote collaboration and cross-team working across the wider organisation.
* Work closely with staff and volunteers across our federation, co‑designing support to best meet local needs and evolving volunteer trends.
This is a varied, busy role – from delivering our prestigious National Volunteer Awards with our Marketing Team to scoping new volunteer training with our Learning and Development Team and facilitating online forums and seminars with and for Volunteer Coordinators across our federation. No day is the same!
Ultimately, your efforts will ensure that our movement can reach and support more families with babies and children facing their toughest times.
If this sounds like your kind of opportunity, then we want to hear from you!
To apply: please submit a CV and a Supporting Statement ‘In no more than two sides of A4 please provide a supporting statement that demonstrates how you meet the criteria outlined in the person specification. We’d also love to hear why you’re interested in this role and what motivates you to work with HSUK’
The closing date for applications is 24th April 2026 at 4pm.
First stage interviews will take place virtually on Thursday 7th May.
Second stage interviews will take place in-person at our Leicester Office on Thursday 14th May.
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