Volunteer Engagement Coordinator  

Salary:        £18,004p.a. pro-rata (£30,007p.a.  FTE)

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off, 8% employer pension contributions, a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.

Contract:    Fixed term for 12 months (with the potential to extend dependent on funding)

Hours:         Part time, 22.5 hours (Preference for hours across Monday-Friday)

Location:    Home Based, with occasional travel across England

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world facing huge environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent.

The Volunteering & Community Engagement team runs a range of programmes and activities for volunteers, ranging from localised programmes, such as the RiverCare & BeachCare programme in the East of England, to the national LitterHeroes Programme.

We are looking for a Volunteer Engagement Coordinator with a passion for community engagement to coordinate our engagement of volunteers.  You will be supporting our Programme Managers with the attraction, recruitment, retention and recognition of our valued volunteers.

You will be evaluating, monitoring, and tracking volunteer feedback to ensure that our volunteering programmes are able to demonstrate continuous improvement.

Your influence will ensure that all volunteers feel truly connected to Keep Britain Tidy and clearly understand the impact their volunteering has on the wider organisation and its ambitious strategic aims.

As we’re moving forward, we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results.  We embrace all the different identities in the UK, and we want our workforce to reflect that.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us, make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description. After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply.

As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions, submit your CV which will be reviewed based on the criteria found in the person specification and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.

Please submit your application before the closing date.

The deadline for applications is 12:00, Tuesday 27 August 2024. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications have been received. 

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 11 September 2024.

If you require an in person interview, please let us know.

If you have any queries about the role, please send an email to: kbtrecruitment@keepbritaintidy.org

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