Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator

September 20, 2024

The Guide Dogs for The Blind

Glasgow

OTHER

Reference

004038

Publication end date

06/10/2024

Employment Details

Contractual hours

21.00

Salary

Starting salary of £31,000.00 pro rata per annum

Vacancy location

Location

Scotland, Scotland, Glasgow

Vacancy details

Directorate

People & Performance - Volunteering

Job Title

Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator

Job Level

Specialist Professional

Contract type

Permanent

External job advert

Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by promoting volunteering and delivering new volunteer applications to support and grow our services and income.

Previous experience in developing & implementing strategic recruitment plans to attract the targeted number of volunteer applications within your area in line with tolerated budgets/cost per application generated. Plan and utilize various recruitment channels such as social media, local media outlets, local out of home advertising, community events, and partnerships to identify potential volunteers.

Represent the organization at local events, fairs, and gatherings to raise awareness of volunteer opportunities and engage with prospective volunteers, and secure applications or expressions of interest. Plan and host at least three events in your area quarterly, potentially more depending on progress against targets, with a focus on higher-impact events where possible.

For this role, you’ll work 21 hours per week, there is flexibility around how these hours are spread across Monday to Friday. Although this is a home-based role, travel around West of Scotland would be required, primarily around Glasgow, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire areas.

A flexible approach would be required as there is regular out-of-hours work, which includes evenings and weekends to attend various attraction events.
We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate profile

Candidate requirements
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include:

Essential

Proven demonstrable experience in recruitment of volunteers, customers or donors, community outreach, and/or related fields.
Proven demonstrable experience in creating consistent advertising collateral in line with brand and product values.
Proven demonstrable experience delivering marketing campaigns from brief to live.
Evaluating campaigns using tracking as much as possible to continuously improve the effectiveness of the volunteer marketing and recruitment and inform your reporting.
Flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed.
Travel is expected to ensure some physical presence at key sites, and to host events in your designated areas.
Proven/demonstrable understanding of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and how it applies to the role.
Proven/demonstrable understanding of The UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct & Promotional Marketing

Desirable

Formal qualifications in marketing or volunteering specialisms or comparative experience.
Previous knowledge of Volunteer Marketing at a similar organisation, and the factors which effect conversion of applications into active volunteers.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply
If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team on 0118 3540345 or TATeam@@guidedogs.org.uk.

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team on 0118 3540345 or TATeam@guidedogs.org.uk