Volunteer Coordinator (Inclusion)

Job Purpose

This is an exciting time to be joining Barnsley CVS and the development of its volunteer offer, working closely with the Barnsley Refugee Advice Project to ensure best practice.

The main purpose of the role is to facilitate better integration of refugee’s, migrants, and asylum seekers into community life in Barnsley using the vehicle of volunteering as a means of supporting this.

You will be responsible for building a strong and trusted relationship with the refugee and asylum seeking community; ensuring potential volunteers are well supported to easily access volunteer roles in Barnsley and playing a significant role in community cohesion. You are likely to provide support through 1-1 support, small group sessions or carefully worded website adverts and information.  Alongside this, you will work closely with voluntary and community sector groups to help them develop appropriate opportunites, ensure good practice and create a network of trusted organisations.

You will need a passion for volunteering and inclusion, patience to work with vulnerable communities and the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people in both a written and spoken context.

Main duties

Individual support

·        Providing direct support to individuals from Barnsley refugee, migrant and asylum-seeking community to find community-based volunteering roles

·        To support the potential volunteer through the application process

·        To support the potential volunteer through the recruitment and selection process

·        To provide support to the volunteer during the settling in period

Support to organisations

·        To work with organisations to ensure that volunteer policies and procedures are inclusive

·        Work with organisations to provide high quality support to volunteers from the Barnsley refugee, migrant and asylum-seeking community

·        Provide support and guidance in relation to obtaining DBS and equivalent checks where necessary

·        Provide information, advice, training and assistance to organisations on the implementation, management and monitoring of volunteering activities

Collaboration

·        The post-holder will be expected to work in collaboration with the Barnsley Refugee and Advice Partnership

·        To attend the migrant drop-in and work in collaboration with the partners of the migrant network

·        To work in collaboration with other Volunteer Coordinators both internally and externally through attendance at the Volunteer Coordinators / Managers meetings hosted by Barnsley CVS

·        To attend workshops, group meetings, market places to help network and promote the volunteer services of Barnsley CVS

·        To create reports reflecting the progress and learnings of the project to both report to the local authority and to assist in development