Volunteering Matters are a national volunteering and social change charity. We believe that everyone across the UKshould have the opportunity to thrive. We bring people together through the unique power of volunteering, toovercome some of society’s most complex issues.
We are looking for a talented, dynamic, and professional Volunteer Engagement Manager to join our team in the City ofEdinburgh. The right candidate would be someone who can work flexibly, is driven, and is passionate aboutsupporting parents and families. It is also important that the post holder can commit to our organisationalvalues – being Compassionate, Empowering, Inclusive, Positive and Straightforward.
An introduction to the role
In this role you will support the delivery and development of our established Family Supporters programme across theCity of Edinburgh. Family Supporters is an effective mentoring programme which offers practical, emotional, andsocial support to parents and families across Edinburgh, empowering them to face a range of life challenges andissues. We recruit, train and match dedicated, local volunteers to help families every step of the way, spending1-1 time together on a personalised set of goals chosen by the family, for the family. The programme supportsparents and families in lots of ways such as improved living standards, budgeting skills, healthier eating,better school life and behaviour, help to access Education, Employment or Training, access to physical andmental health and wellbeing resources/aid, as well as introducing parents to community resources, to name afew.
Further information on Family Supporters Edinburgh can be found online, and on our website.
Information on Employee Benefits
Our ambition is to be the best place to work in the charity sector. We offer lots of employee benefitsincluding:
* Fully flexible working
* Unlimited annual leave, to achieve a positive work-life balance
* Interest free season ticket loan (public transport)
* Competitive and supportivematernity/adoption/family leave provision
* Competitive and supportive sick leave provision
* Accessto our free Employee Assistance line
Our ways of Working
We offer flexible working by default. This means that our staff have significant flexibility when it comes to placeof work, working hours, and are empowered with the responsibility of managing their own diary and workload.
Part of your working week will need to be based in local communities within the City of Edinburgh, meeting withvolunteers, parents and families, partner organisations and others. For the remainder of the time, you can bebased from our City of Edinburgh office or at home (must be locally). If working from home, you will need goodinternet access and a suitable home working environment, all IT equipment, mobile phone and any home workingsupplies will be available.
Duties & Responsibilities
* Role model and display our organisational values – being Compassionate, Empowering, Inclusive, Positive andStraightforward
* Teamwork across the regional staff team and the wider charity, working in a flexibleway
* Deliver and develop the Family Supporters programme across Edinburgh, meeting ambitious goals andmilestones, ensuring all volunteers and families involved achieve positive outcomes
* Attract, recruit,train and provide ongoing support to a team of dedicated volunteers, from a wide cross-section of thecommunity
* Maintain Volunteering Matters standards around quality and effective VolunteerManagement
* Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders includingcolleagues, volunteers, families, Social Services, Health and Education teams, third sector partners andothers
* Support appropriate risk assessment, safeguarding, quality assurance and auditprocesses
* Develop relevant promotional material and information, for Family Supporters, and for ourorganisation locally
* Ensure quarterly statistical data is collected and that the programme meets itsagreed goals, reporting format and schedule as required by our funders.
* Administration tasks includingthe use of Office 365, Microsoft Teams and other relevant software
This job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the post. Whilesome variations may be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role.
Person Specification
Skills & Knowledge Required
* Excellent knowledge of the life challenges and issues that parents and families face in Scotland, and anunderstanding of “The Promise”
* An understanding of how to assess the needs of an individual, using aperson-centered approach
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent peopleskills, able to build professional, long-term relationships with various stakeholders, to influence and motivateothers
* Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to manage a busy workloadand prioritise effectively
* Excellent IT skills including the use of Office 365, Microsoft Teams, andother software (training provided)
* A good problem solver, able to work independently and use owninitiative
Experience Required
* Experience working directly with families, particularly those who face life challenges
* Experience in allaspects of effective Volunteer Management (recruitment, training, support)
* Experience developing strongworking relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
* Experience of projectmanagement, achieving goals, managing a busy workload, and working to deadlines
* Experience of measuringthe impact of mentoring/volunteering, and understanding the results
* Understanding of, and fullcommitment, to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Qualifications
We are not looking for any specific qualifications, for this role. Relevant experience and skills are more important,along with a commitment to our organisational values.
Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG)
This role requires membership of the PVG scheme. Having a conviction is not necessarily a barrier to employment. Ifyou are not currently a member of the PVG scheme, we can support you with the application process (fees will bereimbursed by Volunteering Matters).
Application notes
To Apply
* Please prepare an up-to-date CV
* Please write a supporting statement – this should be at least 1 A4 pagewhich demonstrates why you are the best person for this role. You should refer to the Job Description and PersonSpecification
Closing date and time - 10am on Monday 29 April 2024.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and communities. This will help us to ensure that our staffteam represents the people we serve in Edinburgh. We particularly welcome applications from Black people, peopleof colour, and people with disabilities – all of whom are currently under-represented in our team.
Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role.
Please provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the“Experience/Skills” section of this job description.
To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process, please statethis in your application or contact join@volunteeringmatters.org.uk for more information.
We have also committed to the following pledges which positively encompass our recruitment and selection processesand methodology: The Promise (Scotland), Show The Salary, Salary History.
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime.
We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being,feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lastingdifference.
Who We Are?
Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim andwitness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free,confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs. Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims,witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice inScotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will helpthem to recover from their experiences. All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles ofbeing engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive;collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled. Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us worktowards the ambitions of our 5-year plan:
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorousrecruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What is the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Support Co-ordinator, working 14 hours per week.
* Thursdays 9-6pm
* Saturdays 10-4pm
The successful candidate must have access to their own vehicle and willingness to travel off the islands on occasion(e.g. for training or development activities)
Primary location: Lerwick, however you will be expected to cover throughout the locality is required.
Reporting directly to a Locality Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring, within your Service(s), that VSS’slocal service development and delivery plan is being implemented within your geographical area(s). Servicedelivery is provided by a team of skilled and knowledgeable volunteers, you will be responsible for planningtheir deployment to ensure that the service delivered meets the desired outcomes of victims and witnesses ofcrime, our service users. Responsible for all aspects of a volunteer engagement with VSS at your services,including recruitment, induction, learning and development, ongoing performance management and support.Contributing to business planning and co-ordination ensuring that continuous learning takes place to monitorthat the outcomes of service users are being met.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role foryou.
What you’ll need to be successful
We are looking for someone who is experienced in a similar role and can evidence of continuing professionaldevelopment, effective leadership style, able to build confidence, motivate and improve performance. Analyticalskills, must be able to understand, collect, analyse, report and present data. The ability to challengestereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias. Good working knowledge of the voluntary/charity sector isrequired, as is a willingness to be flexible in working hours and able to travel as required.
Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check, references, and proof that you have the right towork in the UK.
What we offer?
When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annualleave package of 39 days, but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover foryou and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP,counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more. In additionwe offer a generous pension, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union. Supportingemployee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
Water Witness works at the frontline of the global water crisis to shine a light on its impacts, to understand itsroot causes and to activate an effective and lasting response. Our ambitious 2030 Strategy sets out five imperatives for a water secure future: accountable governance, progressive financing, redefining corporate responsibility, confronting climate change and activating people power.
We are seeking an outstanding international development practitioner, with a technical background in water andenvironmental management, to support our growing portfolio of work to secure lasting water security and justicefor some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
From our headquarters in Edinburgh, the postholder will respond to the evolving support needs of our partnersglobally and ensure that the evidence emerging from their work drives positive change locally, and systemicchange at scale. The successful candidate will support the design, launch and operation of the SDG6Accountability Facility – a long-term initiative to channel financial, technical and legal support to thoseworking for water justice on the front line of the global water crisis. We are looking for an exceptionalindividual who has a solid technical understanding of the issues and experience in forming effectiverelationships with international partners, ensuring joint ownership and positive impact. The post holder willsupport sub-granting to partners, coordinate monitoring, evaluation and learning, programme planning, oversight,problem solving and reporting, as well as external liaison and programme communications.
The post will be based in Water Witness’s Edinburgh offices, with flexibility for home working. The role will involvesome travel within the UK and travel overseas.
If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to use your experience and skills to support positive change in theworld, then come join our team!
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions leave hospital scared and alone. You can be part of ourmission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as the Advice Line Lead Coordinator you can be the differencebetween people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions tolive life to the full again. The Advice Line practitioners provide a qualified, supportive listening ear and allour health advice is based on current Scottish and UK medical guidelines.
The role of the Advice Line Lead Coordinator is to manage and develop a team of Advice Line Coordinators andVolunteers ensuring high quality and effective service delivery.
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with a qualification in Health or Social care and/or evidence ofdemonstrable experience within health and social care settings and who has experience /skills in a managementrole. Management qualification desirable but not essential.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holidayallowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions leave hospital scared and alone. You can be part of ourmission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Living Well Coordinator you can be the difference betweenpeople just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke, includingLong COVID conditions to live life to the full again. The Advice Line service is a free and confidentialhelpline that supports people living with our conditions to ensure that live no life is half lived.
The role of the Living Well Coordinator is to manage and develop a team of living well volunteers who will provide atelephone support service to people affected by our conditions who are experiencing issues affecting theirwell-being.
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with a minimum of a diploma in counselling - achieved at a validatedfacility by a recognized professional body.
Registered with the BACP or equivalent professional body.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holidayallowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
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