Volunteer Recruiter Management Team Read

Volunteer Recruiter on the Management Team for Read Easy Barnet

A really interesting opportunity to help manage the recruitment and interviewing of volunteers for your group. If you’re a ‘people person’ and enjoy meeting a wide range of people, then the Volunteer Recruiter role will give you the opportunity to be the first point of contact for all volunteers. You’ll need to be enthusiastic, a good listener and be able to spot a strong volunteer.

By helping to recruit the right volunteers, you will play a vital role in ensuring the longevity of the group. Recruitment experience is welcomed but not essential as we will supply you with everything you need to know.

• manage the recruitment process of all volunteers for your group, leading interviews with the Coordinator or Team Leader; and
• make sure all volunteers feel properly supported, informed, heard and valued.
• Work with the rest of your group to identify the best means of advertising to attract the volunteers you need, and keep everyone informed on progress.
• Manage the recruitment process for all potential volunteers and ensure that appropriate induction is provided.
• Ensure that volunteers’ expectations are managed appropriately and that your group does not recruit significantly more volunteers than it can reasonably make use of.
• Provide all Coaches with an annual Feedback Questionnaire and raise any issues identified that need addressing with the Management Team.
• Provide an End of Year Report to Read Easy UK with Equalities Monitoring data for your group’s volunteers.
• Ensure compliance with Volunteer Policy, Equal Opportunities Policy and Covid Policy.

Recruitment experience is welcomed but not essential; you will be supplied with everything you need to know. You should be enthusiastic, a good listener and able to spot a strong volunteer.

Read Easy UK provides oversight, resources, training and advice to help volunteers establish effective and sustainable Read Easy groups in their area.

Read Easy UK is the only national organisation in the country which provides a volunteer-led reading coaching programme for adults.

The support we provide is:

• Free – our Reading Coaches and Management Teams volunteer their time, and resources and training are funded by kind donations
• Confidential – only a few people in each group know the identity of our Readers, and all coaching takes place in a private space within a public place so that people feel encouraged to come forward and ask for help
• One-to-one – many Readers have had a poor experience in a school classroom or group setting, so our personal approach allows Readers to develop a supportive and trusting bond with their dedicated Coach.

Each Read Easy group is set up and managed by affiliated groups of local volunteers with the support of Read Easy UK. Each group is legally and financially independent (and responsible for their own local fundraising), while required to work within Read Easy’s robust structure, policies and procedures. Read Easy UK provides oversight, resources, training and advice to help volunteers establish effective and sustainable Read Easy groups in their area.

Our support for groups means they can replicate a successful tried-and-tested model in their community and deliver a high-quality reading coaching service.

Read Easy UK is the only national organisation in the country which provides a volunteer-led reading coaching programme for adults.