Volunteer and Health Development Manager

Do you have a passion for managing and promoting volunteering and improving health outcomes for the community? If the answer is yes, then this could be the role for you.

You will be part of the Library Development Team, helping to shape the future of the service and reporting directly to the Library Development Manager and the wider Library Leadership Team. Your focus will be managing an award-winning team to lead on the planning, development and delivery of volunteering and targeted health projects within Cambridgeshire Libraries.

This is a hybrid role (the location of Cambridge Central Library is nominal). You will be able to work flexibly, working from diverse locations, including home. There is an expectation that you will travel to locations across the county, as required.

The current post holder is on secondment. This is a fixed term, part-time post until 2 nd November 2027. The working hours are 18.5 hours per week.

Interviews will be held in person at Cambridge Central Library on Monday 19 th October 2026.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact the Library Development Manager, Luke Oakes, on
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We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing
  , both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities
  , apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

This fixed term, part-time role carries the following key responsibilities:

To develop, promote and co‑coordinate volunteering opportunities across Cambridgeshire Library Service.

To manage the Library at Home service, including the direct line management of two Area Volunteer Coordinators.

There will also be the opportunity to collaborate with Public Health on the effective and efficient delivery of targeted health projects through the Library Service.

This part-time post will suit a self‑motivated, organised, flexible individual with experience of developing volunteers.

You will need to work flexibly with a requirement for some weekend and evening working as required. The ability to travel around the county is essential.

• Managing teams, including volunteers.
• Project development and delivery.
• Partnership working.
• Safeguarding.
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity.

Library work is physically demanding; please see the Job Hazards attached below for more details.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

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