At a Glance
- Tasks: Recruit, train, and support volunteers to empower young people in need.
- Company: Join Action for Children, a leading charity making a difference for over 150 years.
- Benefits: Enjoy 29 days annual leave, professional development, and discounts at 15,000 retailers.
- Other info: Flexible hours and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by helping vulnerable young people thrive through mentorship.
- Qualifications: Minimum Level 3 education and a passion for supporting youth.
The predicted salary is between 29000 - 29000 £ per year.
Salary: £29,000.00 per annum (pro rata)
Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part Time - Hours: 18.5 - 25 hours per week
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, (pro-rata) with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts.
About the Service
The Guernsey Youth & Housing project offers support to young people, between the ages of 11-25. Our work focuses on homelessness and the wider issues that cause it including independent living skills, substance use, leaving care, employability and isolation, delivering over 20 dedicated projects supporting young people.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Volunteer Co-Ordinator who will recruit, train and support volunteers in our service this will be to current and new projects, with the current projects focusing on volunteer mentors. Our mentoring also involves working directly with children and young people as they prepare for their mentoring journey and staying alongside them and their mentors as they build relationships with young people. This role will also facilitate volunteer individual and peer supervision to ensure our volunteers working with young people feel supported and fulfilled as they support young people.
How you'll make a difference:
- By recruiting inspiring volunteers who can act as positive role models to young people (13-25).
- By overseeing the activities between the volunteers and young people, ensuring they are safe, stimulating and fun.
- By demonstrating the benefits of the service to our community.
- By publicising and promoting volunteering opportunities with individuals, community groups, professionals, and other relevant agencies and to scrutinise applications.
- By ensuring young people are benefitting from supportive and caring relationships with their volunteers that positively impact their wellbeing and life chances.
What you'll need:
- Good standard of education to minimum level 3 standards for example; BTech, NVQ L3, A Level.
- Understand and reflect an outcomes focused approach to working with children and young people and to keep children and young people at the heart of decisions.
- Demonstrates and acts as a role model for our organisational values that enables the leadership, direction and guidance of volunteers through the sharing of information and evidence in relevant practice.
- Demonstrates and embraces understanding of and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion.
- Demonstrable planning and organising skill, and to also prioritise to lead to review and evaluation of workloads and service provision.
- Creative approach towards continuous improvement through reflection on own practice and behaviour and to embed this into service improvements.
- Ability to liaise with a wide range of individuals.
Good to know. Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion: At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society.
Senior Volunteer Coordinator employer: Action for Children
Action for Children is an exceptional employer dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment in Wirral. With flexible part-time hours, employees benefit from a strong emphasis on professional development and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and young people. Our collaborative culture encourages innovation and personal growth, making it a rewarding place to work for those passionate about emotional wellbeing.
