Working with children and young people to be safe, happy, healthy and hopeful.
Barnardos Mentora is recruiting a Volunteer Coordinator to join our team!
- Do you want to work for the UK's largest children's charity?
- Can you build trust and offer support to families, children and adults who may be facing a variety of challenges?
- Can you coach and mentor families and individuals through a process of change?
- Do you have knowledge & experience of working within safeguarding procedures?
- Do you want to work with a supportive, committed, passionate team?
If you have answered YES to the above questions, you may be the person we seek.
The Mentora Service is part of Barnardos Newport Connect. It provides support to children, young people and families across Newport, through a bank of fully trained volunteers. They deliver fun and informative Family Hubs, with the addition of offering a121 Befriending service.
In this rewarding role, you will establish, develop and sustain volunteering services to meet project and operational needs. You will play a key part in recruiting, supporting and developing volunteers, ensuring they have a positive and meaningful volunteering experience while helping to deliver high-quality services.
We are looking for:
- An outgoing, confident and skilled communicator who is able to build trusting relationships and influence people.
- You will feel confident to speak to people from a wide range of backgrounds with the ability to proactively seek out opportunities to build partnerships and promote the project.
- You will be a self-motivated, committed person with experience of working and/or volunteering in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community
If you would like to make a positive difference in the lives of children, young people and families, we would like to hear from you.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
