Volunteer Recruitment & Events Lead — Local Outreach

Guide Dogs - Together, We Can Make the World Easier to Navigate

Come and join us as an engaging and expert Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator and be part of something life-changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator at Guide Dogs, you’ll lead the promotion of volunteering opportunities, driving the attraction of new volunteers to support and grow our services and income.

The Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator will be an expert in strategic volunteer recruitment, using a range of channels including social media, local media, community engagement, and partnerships.

Our Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinators play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

This role is home-based in the Nottingham area as regular travel is required throughout Nottinghamshire and Sheffield, this includes Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and some South parts of Yorkshire.

This role will involve out of core hours working, including weekends to attend events.

Travel requirements will vary from week to week, but typically involve travel on approximately two days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver recruitment plans to meet volunteer targets within budget.
• Build strong relationships with community groups, schools, and local stakeholders.
• Represent Guide Dogs at events to promote volunteering and generate interest.
• Plan and run regular local events to drive applications.
• Work with Communications to maximise media and marketing opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams to meet local and national recruitment goals.
• You

You’ll have a creative, results-driven and collaborative approach to volunteer recruitment and marketing campaigns.

You’ll enjoy working in a dynamic, community-focused environment with a mix of independent and team-based activity, with a dedicated focus on attracting and engaging volunteers.

You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• GCSEs in Maths and English at grades A - C or equivalent (QCF level 2 / SQCF level 5).
• Proven demonstrable experience in recruitment of volunteers, customers or donors, community outreach, and/or related fields.
• Proven demonstrable experience in creating consistent advertising collateral in line with brand and product values.
• Proven demonstrable experience delivering marketing campaigns from brief to live.
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed. Travel is expected to ensure some physical presence at key sites, and to host events in your designated areas.

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people.

That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
• Real Living Wage Employer
• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
• The option to buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cash-back scheme
• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)

• And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

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