Business Support Coordinator iwill Permanent contract Job Ref: V546 Hours/Days per week: 35 hours per week – Salary: £24,600 plus attractive employee benefits package Start date: ASAP Location: home-based with occasional travel Closing date: midnight Thursday 26th June 2025 Interview date and Location: w/c 30th June 2025 online 'Due to the time critical nature of this role, we may contact and interview strong candidates before the stated deadline. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.' About Volunteering Matters At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK. We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues. From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence, and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great. And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive. This is an exciting time to be joining the team. We’re changing the way we work to meet new ambitions and make sure our impact continues to grow alongside out business. Job Purpose Working closely with all members of the iwill team, plus iwill Ambassadors, and partners, this role enables effective, efficient, and coordinated activity across the iWill Movement. It truly is the backbone of the team. Hosted by Volunteering Matters, the Business Support Coordinator will support the iWill Movement’s core functions, with particular focus on supporting strategy, partnership, and communications activity, ensuring meetings, events, campaigns and wider activities are planned, coordinated and delivered to a high standard. From liaising with partners, to developing online resources, coordinating online and in-person activity, monitoring delivery, and managing financial transactions, the role supports the movement to create long lasting change via the power of youth. This role works as part of the wider iWill team from Volunteering Matters and UK Youth, and reports to the Head of iWill Movement Strategy and Co-ordination. If you are a natural doer, always the most organised person in the room, someone who is a natural planner, but someone who can also flex and adapt in a small and fast paced team- then we’d love to hear from you. For the role to be truly transformational the Business Support Coordinator will need to: Believe in the Power of Youth. Be a key advocate for the views and experiences of young people, using the role to work with and platform young people where needed. Be a natural connector, building relationships and alliances within the team, ambassador community, and across the movement Always maintain total independence in the spirit of the movement, serving young people and their youth social action first, wherever that may be. Be willing to enable and platform young people to tell their own stories, even if abdicating personal power. Ensure that young people’s views, experiences, and work is communicated clearly to wider stakeholders to inform the evolution of iwill. Primarily home-based, the role will require occasional travel to London, and elsewhere in the UK. Flexible working hours will be required to accommodate occasional evening sessions and in-person meetings with partners and young people. The role requires reliable internet access, and ability to work independently whilst also part of a busy remote team. The role is part of the UK wide iWill team and will report to the Head of iWill Strategy and Coordination, and work closely with the Digital Communications Manager. Duties may vary in line with the needs of the Movement as appropriate. I.T. equipment and infrastructure will be supplied. This is a permanent role, full time 35 hours per week. job shares will be considered. The role will require a DBS check. Our Values & Way of Working: In all that we do, we embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values: Empowering, Inclusive, Compassionate, Positive & Straightforward. This job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the post. It is neither exhaustive nor exclusive but while some variations will be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role. Diversity & Inclusion Volunteering Matters welcomes all applicants and are keen to ensure our team reflects the diversity of the UK and the communities we serve. We encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic backgrounds, along with candidates with any protected characteristics and from disadvantaged groups. 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 advert. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process. We have also committed to the following pledges which positively encompass our recruitment and selection processes and methodology: The Promise, Show The Salary, Salary History. Benefits Our employee benefits reflect our culture which is built on an approach of full flexibility with accountability, and designed to let you make your most positive contribution; we offer Flexible Working by Default (re hours & place of work), Unlimited Annual Leave, Employee Pension scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Employee Assistance Programme, enhanced sick and family leave. We are also open to discuss job share applications. GDPR Statement If you apply for a role with us, we will retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months. We will not use your personal data for any other purpose or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information or ask us to delete it from our records.