Regional Volunteering Partner - North East, United Kingdom - The Guide Dogs for The Blind

The Guide Dogs for The Blind

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North East, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Reference :002800

Publication end date :29/05/2023

Employment Details:

Contractual hours:

35.00

Salary:

£40,000 - £46,857 per annum + benefits

Vacancy location:

Location:

England, North East, Homebased North East

Vacancy details:

Directorate:

People & Performance - Volunteering

Job Title:

Regional Volunteering Partner

Job Level:

Manager

Contract type:

Permanent

External job advert:

The Regional Volunteering Partner helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by delivering and successfully implementing the organisations volunteering strategy in your region to contribute to the national strategy and wider organisational strategy.

The role will collaborate and partner with senior managers and colleagues at a regional level to ensure appropriate volunteer plans are developed and effectively delivered, in line with agreed targets and measures of success.

For this role you'll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. This role will involve regular travel across the region to attend Guide Dogs offices and events.

We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave.

In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work.

We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Essential

Volunteer Management qualification or equivalent.
Relevant qualification in training/learning and development.
Active membership of relevant professional networks e.g. the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM) and National Network of Volunteer Involving Associations (NNVIA).
Proven experience of providing advisory or consultancy services to nonspecialist clients.
Relevant and demonstrable experience of working with volunteers that have leadership responsibilities/manage volunteer teams.
Proven experience of leading, managing and coaching staff and volunteers effectively.
Proven ability to structure, plan and prioritise to be able to deliver against targets and deadlines.
Evidence of dealing with confidential issues sensitively and with total integrity.
Proven experience of developing, implementing and reviewing new working practices within a team.
Experience of working with process improvement methodologies e.g. Lean.
Experience of budgeting and financial reforecasting as well as maximising efficiencies.
Demonstrable experience of working as part of a regional team within a national organisation.
Proven experience of working in the voluntary/charitable sector.
Experience of creating an inclusive work environment for people with a disability.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you'll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Application Closing Date:

29/05/2023