Volunteer Manager in Newport

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to lead our team of volunteers across the South Wales area. As the Volunteer Manager you will:

• Lead on promoting and developing volunteering within our service across South Wales.
• Lead on the recruitment and training of new volunteers.
• Provide line management for a team of volunteers ensuring high quality support to the victims of crime.
• Ensure compliance with all Victim Support standards relating to volunteering.
• Build and maintain partnerships with relevant external agencies.

The role is home based and will include regular travel around the South Wales area. Are you passionate about ensuring the victims of crime receive high quality support, developing others and helping to deliver an outstanding service? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

What we offer:

• Flexible working options including hybrid working.
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 33 days plus Bank Holidays.
• An extra day off for your birthday & options to buy or sell annual leave.
• Pension with 5% employer contribution.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances, maternity & paternity payments.
• High Street, retail, holiday, gym, entertainment & leisure discounts.
• Access to our financial wellbeing hub & salary deducted finance.
• Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support.
• Access to EDI networks and colleague cafes.
• Cycle to work scheme & season ticket loans.
• Ongoing training & support with opportunities for career development & progression.

As a Volunteer Manager, you will recruit, inspire, and support a team of dedicated volunteers, empowering them to deliver high-quality services and compassionate support to victims when they need it most, making a real difference to the lives of people affected by crime. You will work collaboratively with colleagues, in order to maximise positive outcomes for service users. You will:

• Carry out recruitment activities to attract potential volunteers.
• Develop and manage a cohort of volunteers, including service delivery, community engagement and fundraising support.
• Oversee new volunteer accreditation, carrying out regular supervisions and annual reviews.
• Promote effective volunteer communications to ensure good working relationships across the volunteer cohorts by, for example, volunteer meetings, newsletters, etc.
• Ensure volunteers work within existing safeguarding policies and procedures, data protection and information security, confidentiality policies, lone worker policies and other relevant policies.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships through good communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Promote, facilitate and participate in regular team meetings, sharing local issues, feedback and learning with other colleagues.
• Comply and keep up to date with VS Data Protection Policy, GDPR data protection legislation, confidentiality and organisational policies and procedures, as well as all legislation connected to your work.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. We put them at the heart of our organisation and our support and campaigns are informed and shaped by them and their experiences.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

At Victim Support, we're proud to celebrate diversity and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We're committed to being an antiracist organisation, and we actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from Black and Asian and other minoritised communities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria for a job where it is practicable to do so. We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment and selection process.

To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date. If you have already registered & started an application, then we will contact you to advise of the amended closing date wherever possible.