Volunteer Engagement Manager in Oxford

Closing date: Sunday 22 February 2026.

Salary: £17,040 - £17,752 pro-rata salary (£28,400 - £29,586 FTE).

Contract type: Permanent.

Working hours: Part time.

Location: This role can be based at any BBOWT office. Hybrid working available, with travel across the three counties – Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire.

The Volunteer Engagement Manager will help nature recover by delivering dynamic volunteer recruitment campaigns and initiatives to increase the diversity and inclusivity of our volunteer community, empowering them to act for nature.

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing and delivering transformational volunteer engagement campaigns to truly embrace diversity and foster inclusion to connect with new audiences.
• Co-creating with new audiences’ initiatives to grow and develop our network of volunteers.
• Effectively utilising digital technologies and social media platforms to promote volunteering opportunities to a diverse range of people.
• Developing, embedding and managing the start of our volunteer journey across BBOWT, fully utilising our volunteer management system.

What we’re looking for:

• A team orientated person with a positive encouraging attitude.
• Ability to create and market recruitment campaigns, utilising social media platforms and digital tools to maximise impact.
• Ability to develop effective relationships and partnerships.
• Good understanding of volunteer motivations and legislation relating to volunteering.
• Ability and willingness to demonstrate our BBOWT behaviours and values.

Benefits:

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, balance days, urgent personal business leave and generous occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and family-friendly policies.
• Flexible working to achieve work-life balance.
• Salary exchange pension with generous employer contribution.
• Wellbeing initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders, YuLife benefit package - access to immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access, discounts and trade YuCoin points for gift cards.
• Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme.
• Membership to BBOWT’s, and The Wildlife Trusts’, Staff Network Groups for social interaction, peer support, mentoring and personal development.

How to apply:

For full details, please read the job description and T&Cs below. To apply, please follow the application link. The closing time and date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 22nd February 2026. First interviews will take place on Monday 2nd March 2026, second interviews will take place Tuesday 10th March 2026.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We want every candidate to have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this, we know that some candidates will need reasonable adjustments. Contact us on recruitment@bbowt.org.uk if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the recruitment process, including completing your application.

When applying for the role you can expect to answer a few questions online relating to the skills required and what you would be doing in the role. Your responses will be anonymised, randomised, and scored by a panel of reviewers. We don’t use an application form, or CVs - your answers to our situational based questions will be scored against a review guide and scores from these will decide which candidates go through to the interview stage.

Whilst we appreciate ChatGPT and other AI platforms can answer these questions, we know what they have to say (and generally the answer they generate isn’t great). We want to hear your perspective written in your own words. If it is clear that any of your answers are not your own work, we reserve the right to reject your application on that basis.

You’ll also be asked for information about your background, anything you feel comfortable sharing will be anonymised and will not be shared as part of the selection process, it will only be used to help us understand how we are performing against our equal opportunities metrics.

All candidates will receive feedback on their application. We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people from visible ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities (including those who are neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ community, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and younger people. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.