Volunteer and Engagement Manager
Salary: £35,000 FTE
Part time considered: minimum 30 hours a week
Full time annual leave entitlement: 28 days per annum
Are you a dynamic individual who can develop, lead and grow our volunteer strategy, community engagement and marketing activity in Surrey? Do you thrive on working with people, helping to empower them to use their skills and experiences to help others in the community? Can you make a difference at a local Surrey charity?
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey has been established for over 100 years. We enable and empower people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, partially sighted, and deafblind to overcome barriers to be as independent as possible and thrive in their communities. We are a countywide charity based in Fetcham, near Leatherhead.
We are seeking a hard-working, driven and flexible individual to develop, lead and grow our volunteer and community engagement team and lead and collaborate with our marketing and communication team to raise awareness and increase engagement to grow our vital work.
Main duties include:
- Be an effective manager, line managing our Volunteer, Community Outreach and Marketing and Communications teams.
- Working with various partner organisations, building relations while exploring possible funding/joint working/event opportunities, and supporting our Outreach Team to make sure they are best placed to have the biggest impact for the people we enable and empower.
- In collaboration with the Marketing and Communications team, oversee the production of high quality communications to raise awareness, increase engagement and grow support for our vital work.
- Organise and facilitate our Breaking Down Barriers Workshops three times a year.
- Lead on key projects around Communications, Volunteering and Engagement, including:
- Co-produce a strategic volunteering plan for the team aligned to our strategy
- Review and develop the charity policies for volunteering and ensure volunteers are up to date with our relevant policies, legislative requirements and our needs and requirements
- Co-produce a strategic communications plan for the team, aligned to our strategy
- Review all current communications and revise annual marketing plans to strengthen our presence in the community
- Working with colleagues in other teams and departments, develop a strategic Community Engagement plan aligned to our strategy
- Ability to work flexibly according to the business need which may include evening and weekends
A Disclosure and Barring Service will be required which we can arrange.
Full time annual leave entitlement is 28 days per annum. Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey complies with auto enrolment, we match contributions up to 6%. using the Pensions Trust. We offer training opportunities suitable for each role. We pay for annual flu vaccinations and for an eye test every two years with a contribution towards work related glasses.
For further details of the role please see the job description.
Closing date: 8th December 2024
An application pack can be downloaded below or please contact Sophia Eyre, workforus@sightforsurrey.org.uk or by post to Sophia Eyre, Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey, Rentwood, School Lane, Fetcham, Surrey, KT22 9JX. For further details please telephone 07396 820717.
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Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey is an equal opportunities employer and accredited as Disability Confident.
Website: www.sightforsurrey.org.uk
Registered Charity No: 1121949, Company No: 06309405
