Volunteer Development Coordinator
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £19,972 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | SE26 6DZ |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | St Christopher's Hospice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 298978JCP |
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Volunteer Development Coordinator
Salary: £19,972 for 22.5 hours per week £31,956 (FTE)
Contract/Hours: Permanent, part time 3 days per week (flexibility on days)
Location: Flexible – Office base at Sydenham, South London (with 1 day working from home)
Closing Date: Sunday 18th January 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 28th January 2026
About the role
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Volunteer Development Officer to help grow and strengthen our volunteer community. You’ll play a key role in attracting people from a wider range of ethnic backgrounds, reducing barriers to participation, and ensuring volunteers feel valued, supported and heard, while championing equity, diversity and inclusion.
You’ll work closely with volunteers and colleagues across the organisation to deliver positive volunteer experiences and help shape our Volunteering Team Plan. You’ll inspire involvement, build strong stakeholder relationships, and communicate effectively with diverse audiences, creating engaging communications that showcase St Christopher’s as a great place to volunteer.
What you’ll be doing:
Acting as a key point of contact for volunteers, responding to enquiries in a friendly, professional and timely way.
Supporting volunteers with queries or concerns, using agreed processes and escalating when appropriate.
Helping to grow and diversify our volunteer base by supporting inclusive recruitment and flexible and micro-volunteering opportunities.
Coordinating volunteer communications, including newsletters, website and intranet content, ensuring information is clear, accurate and accessible.
Leading on volunteer engagement, reward and recognition activities, including events, awards and Volunteers’ Week.
Coordinating the Volunteer Voices group and volunteer feedback activity, using insight to improve the volunteer experience.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to promote volunteering and develop new opportunities.
Why join us?
The Volunteering Team supports all areas of volunteering, including recruitment, onboarding, problem solving, and volunteer reward and recognition. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering our Volunteering Team Plan to provide an outstanding volunteer experience.
This varied and rewarding role offers an excellent opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and in-depth knowledge in volunteer development and management. If you are an enthusiastic team player with a passion for promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in volunteering, this is your chance to make a real difference.
Please contact Clare Hodder on c.hodder@stchristophers.org.uk or 0208 768 4737 if you wish to discuss the role informally, before applying.
Some of our benefits:
You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference within the organisation and our local community
Access to excellent training and development opportunities
Season ticket loans/cycle to work scheme
Generous annual leave entitlement (25 days increasing to 27 days per annum after 12 months qualifying period)
A number of health and wellbeing initiatives
A competitive contributory pension scheme with life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
An onsite staff canteen
Access to plenty of free local street parking
To find out more about St Christopher’s and this role, please go to our website www.stchristophers.org.uk. To apply for the role please follow the link and complete the application form.
For any other queries, please contact our recruitment line on 0208 768 4680 or email the team at Recruitment@stchristophers.org.uk
Previous applicants need not apply
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As a Disability Confident Employer, we have committed to:
Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
Communicate and promote vacancies
Offer an interview to disabled people
Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as required
Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people