Closing date: Wednesday 13 August 2025
Location: Oxford, with travel across Oxfordshire
Hours: 35h per week, part-time options available
Salary: £27,000 a year
Contract: Permanent (6-month probationary period)
Interview date: 28th August
Volunteers are the backbone of our communities, without our volunteers we could not do what we do. We’re looking for someone to join our team to provide support, training, and recruitment of volunteers to ensure our services run smoothly and effectively for blind and partially sighted people. You will love working with people and matching people and have a drive to see people thrive both in their volunteering roles and the support they receive from MyVision.
Job Purpose: Torecruit, train and support our volunteers. Ensuring ourrecruitment processesand policiesare to a high standardand accessible to all.
Duties:
Volunteer recruitment, training and support
* Recruit volunteersacross all areas of the organisation including service delivery, fundraising and administration
* Create and list volunteer job descriptions for all current opportunities
* Ensure good administrationprocesses are in place
* Provide induction training, ongoing training opportunities and development for volunteers
* Host thank you events and activities and provide ongoing support and contact for volunteer
Policies and Procedures
* Ensure all volunteering policies and procedures are kept up-to-date
* Provide risk assessments where applicable
* Develop and maintainanorganisation wide volunteer handbook
* Administer the organisationpolicies and procedures and support the wider staff team and volunteers to access them
* Provide organisationwiderecruitment support for all opportunities including; volunteers, staff and trustees
Recording
* Record all relevant interactions with volunteers on our CRM
* Provide reports forvarious staff members on volunteering numbers and hours
Other duties:
* Attend and contribute to team meetings
* Attend relevant trainingand networking events
* Be an ambassador forMyVisionand help us to reach out, grow and continue to support visually impaired people across Oxfordshire
* Other reasonable duties set out byyour line manager and Chief Executive
* There may, on occasion, be a need to work outside normal hourse.g.,weekends and evenings
Person Specification
NOTE:We expect candidates toevidence how they meet the criteria in their covering letter.This can be through work,volunteering,and your personal life.
Essentialskills,experience,and knowledge:
1.Experience of coordinating and managing volunteers
2. Knowledge of the charity sector
3.Ability to providegroup training
5.Strong administration and organisational skills
1.Lived experience of visual impairment or other disabilities
2.Experience of workingwithin a disability charity, local or national
Personal Qualities
1.The ability to work under own initiative
3.Creative thinker and problem solving
4.A supportive teamplayer
Thisrolerequires a strong level of organisation, you will be managing and juggling a case load of volunteers. But the end results will be highly rewarding as you match volunteers with great opportunities and see the direct impact this has on ensuring blind and partially sighted people can live independent and active lives.You will be playing a key part in ensuring our services run smoothy andenabling us to increase our capacity through volunteering.
Safeguarding
MyVisionis committed to safeguardingchildren and vulnerable adults.You can find our safeguarding policy here–Safeguarding Policy. This role is subject to a DBS check andtworeferences.
Equal Opportunities and Disability
MyVision is an equal opportunities employer and Disability ConfidentLeader. If you have any concerns about the role or the application process that may relate to your disabilityor health condition, please docontact us. We are also a Youth Friendly Employerand signed up to theMental Health at Work Commitment. MyVision has a strong commitment to employing staff and volunteers with lived experience of sight loss, you can findout more here:MyVision Oxfordshire Commitment to Lived Experience.
Access to Work
Support can be provided through Access to Work if you have a disability or long-term health condition. This can be equipment, travel to work, or travel within work. You can find out more about Access to Work here:Access to Work .
How to apply
Pleasesend an up-to-date copy of your CV, including two referencesand a covering letter evidencing how your skills and experiences meet the persons specifications and job role. You may use evidence from work, volunteering,and your personal life. Please use no more than 500 words.You can send your CV and covering letter torecruitment@MyVision.org.uk. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate tocontact us .
For further information about this vacancy and details of how to apply, please visit the MyVision Oxfordshire website: https://www.myvision.org.uk/
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