Volunteer Co-ordinator

Working with children and young people to be safe, happy, healthy and hopeful.

Barnardos Mentora is recruiting a Volunteer Coordinator to join our team!

• Do you want to work for the UK's largest children's charity?
• Can you build trust and offer support to families, children and adults who may be facing a variety of challenges?
• Can you coach and mentor families and individuals through a process of change?
• Do you have knowledge & experience of working within safeguarding procedures?
• Do you want to work with a supportive, committed, passionate team?

If you have answered
YES
to the above questions, you may be the person we seek.

The Mentora Service is part of Barnardos Newport Connect. It provides support to children, young people and families across Newport, through a bank of fully trained volunteers. They deliver fun and informative Family Hubs, with the addition of offering a121 Befriending service.

In this rewarding role, you will establish, develop and sustain volunteering services to meet project and operational needs. You will play a key part in recruiting, supporting and developing volunteers, ensuring they have a positive and meaningful volunteering experience while helping to deliver high-quality services.

We are looking for:

• outgoing, confident and skilled communicator who is able to build trusting relationships and influence people.
• Youwill feel confident to speak to people from a wide range of backgrounds with the ability to proactively seek out opportunities to build partnerships and promote the project.
• Youwill be a self‑motivated, committed person with experience of working and/or volunteering in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community

If you would like to make a positive difference in the lives of children, young people and families, we would like to hear from you.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid‑point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Workplace

Offer:

What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
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