Volunteer Officer

As a Volunteer Experience Officer, your role will be to manage our national virtual community of volunteers.

Specifically, you will co-ordinate the design and delivery of our National 'Sea Champions' volunteer engagement programme, ensuring we have engaging roles and opportunities to inspire nationwide volunteer action.

You will play an essential role in creating excellent volunteer experiences that empower and mobilise the public, including an outstanding volunteer journey, onboarding, induction and training, guides and resources.

• Develop a high-quality programme of training and events
• Act as a key point of contact for volunteers

• Experience assessing and managing risk to create new volunteer roles and successfully recruiting and engaging volunteers to undertake them
• Experience developing and delivering inspiring volunteer opportunities and resources
• Experience engaging and supporting volunteers to deliver tangible outcomes
• Experience managing and maintaining effective volunteer records
• Working knowledge of data protection and its application to confidential information
• Reliable access to a vehicle with a full, valid UK driving licence (due to the various locations this role may visit, we cannot guarantee the availability of public transport)

This role will involve some travel and occasional overnight stays as well as some weekend and evening work.

This role will have online and occasional in-person delivery to adults and young people and is therefore subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Check.

• Salary of £26,358 - £31,132 per annum
• 25 days' annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing with service)
• Extra time off at Christmas
• 8% employer pension contributions (no match required)
• Sick pay at full pay for 8 weeks, then 8 weeks at half pay (after probation)
• Flexible working and remote-first approach
• Health and wellbeing support, plus an employee assistance programme
• A paid volunteering day to support a charity of your choice
• Cycle-to-work scheme

We are a leading UK environmental charity dedicated to protecting our ocean.

We are currently looking for a Volunteer Experience Officer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.