Volunteer Recruiter

Summary Would you like to volunteer with a local group which supports adults to learn to read? We are looking for a Volunteer Recruiter in the North Hertfordshire area.

Detailed Description

Around 12,000 adults in our area may not be able to read.

Not being able to read has a negative impact on a person’s ability to earn money, to be independent, or to support their children to learn.

You could play a vital role in changing their lives.

Read Easy Stevenage and North Herts is a small group of volunteers providing free and confidential one-to-one reading coaching for adults in this area.

As our Volunteer Recruiter
, you would be part of our management team helping to run our group. The role would involve:

• Being the first point of contact for potential volunteers;
• Explaining the roles;
• Receiving application forms and conducting interviews;
• Working closely with our coordinators and Team Leader.

You would attend and contribute to management team meetings every six weeks. The role is flexible, and the time required varies every week. The role provides lots of variety and can work well around other commitments.

For a full role description and further information please get in contact!

Read Easy helps adults learn to read. We provide free, confidential one-to-one reading coaching in approved venues in Stevenage, Letchworth and Hitchin. Our readers and coaches meet twice a week for half an hour. We use a structured, phonics-based reading programme.

The confidential one-to-one nature of our service is vital to encouraging people to come forward to ask for our help. Many adults are deeply embarrassed that they are unable to read. Many have bad memories of school and do not respond well to a classroom setting. By learning with one dedicated volunteer coach, a supportive and trusting bond develops, which helps motivate the reader to complete the course.

We are a small team of volunteers. We have regular meetings for reading coaches to learn from each other and every coach and reader is supported by a local coordinator. Our readers are all ages, the youngest 20, the oldest 67. You’re never too old to learn!