Volunteer Coordinator

Responsible to: Head of Service and Safeguarding
Contract Type: Permanent; full time
Salary: £23,000 per annum
Location: Edinburgh (with some UK travel between Social Bite locations)
Closing date: 5th August 2024 at 12pm
Application process: please send your CV and a cover letter

Do you love working with volunteers?

Are you inspired by matching their support with opportunities that will make a tangible positive impact on breaking the cycle of homelessness?

Are you good at gathering information and organising people?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Social Bite is looking for someone special to join our team and to coordinate our volunteering programme.

You will come with experience of working with volunteers. You will help to deliver our services, campaigns and events – leading on volunteers’ recruitment, logistics, stewardship and communications. You will be playing a key part in helping to look after and grow our volunteers, ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient, and identify volunteering needs and roles. You will enjoy taking your own initiative but also working as a part of the team. You will be required to travel around our various locations. You will be resilient, always bringing a smile and can-do attitude to your work.

We need you to be:

• A person who has good knowledge and experience of working with volunteers in a professional capacity
• A person who understands barriers to volunteering that people in situation of homelessness might face
• A person who can quickly build strong relationships for developing effective internal relationships and partnerships with a range of stakeholders
• Flexible with willingness to learn
• Passionate about people with a drive to make a change.

If this sounds like your perfect role, we would love to hear from you. Please send your CV and cover letter to apply for this position.

In your cover letter, please address the following points:

• Why are you interested in this role and working for Social Bite?
• How important do you think building relationships with individuals is? Can you demonstrate your ability to engage with people using some examples?
• Why having volunteering opportunities is important?

Closing date: Monday, 5th August 2024 at 12pm

The interviews will be carried out week commencing 12th August 2024.

We look forward to hearing from you!