This role is part of our Capacity Building Team and plays a key role in strengthening the volunteering infrastructure across Bury. By supporting both individuals and organisations, you will increase participation, improve quality of volunteer programmes, and ensure volunteering contributes to a stronger, more sustainable VCSE sector.
As a borough-wide role, every day brings something different. You might be working one-to-one with an individual taking their first steps into volunteering, working alongside a community group providing tailored advice and guidance, delivering an inspiring training session, or helping our networks and forums connect and collaborate. You’ll also represent the sector at meetings and events, giving VCSE organisations a strong and trusted voice in local conversations. It’s a varied, people-focused role where your support will make a tangible difference to community organisations across Bury.
1. Strategic Development of Volunteering
· Contribute to the development and delivery of the Bury Volunteering Strategy, ensuring alignment with wider VCSE capacity building priorities and local strategic frameworks.
· Identify emerging trends, gaps and opportunities in volunteering across Bury, using insight and data to inform service development.
· Promote inclusive and accessible volunteering, increasing participation among underrepresented groups and communities.
· Build strong, trusted relationships with VCSE organisations, public sector partners and businesses to strengthen volunteering pathways across Bury.
· Support the development of new approaches to volunteering, including employer-supported volunteering, youth volunteering and opportunities within public sector settings.
· Support Bury VCFA's role in emergency response and resilience work, particularly around volunteer recruitment and deployment.
2. Strengthening Volunteering Infrastructure & Good Practice
· Provide tailored advice, guidance and support to VCSE organisations to develop and improve high-quality, inclusive volunteer programmes.
· Support organisations with volunteer role design, recruitment processes, policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with best practice and legal requirements.
· Develop and share tools, resources and guidance to strengthen volunteer management across Bury.
· Deliver training and learning opportunities to build the confidence, capability and effectiveness of volunteer-involving organisations.
· Facilitate and develop volunteer coordinator networks and forums to support shared learning, collaboration and good practice.
· Enable innovation in volunteering by identifying gaps in provision and supporting the development of new roles and programmes.
3. Volunteer Brokerage & Individual Support
· Deliver a high-quality, person-centred volunteer brokerage service for Bury residents.
· Enable individuals to access suitable, safe and meaningful volunteering opportunities, tailored to their needs, motivations and circumstances.
· Provide targeted support to individuals facing barriers to volunteering, developing bespoke pathways into participation where needed.
· Recruit, support and oversee volunteers engaged in Bury VCFA programmes and activities.
4. Voice of Volunteering & Sector Influence
· Champion the value and impact of volunteering across Bury, ensuring the voice of volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations is represented in local decision-making.
· Gather insight, feedback and lived experience from volunteers and organisations to inform strategy, service development and system change.
· Represent Bury VCFA and the VCSE sector at meetings, networks and strategic forums as appropriate.
· Contribute to the development of campaigns, events and initiatives that raise the profile of volunteering locally.
5. Promotion, Insight & Impact
· Monitor, evaluate and report on outcomes and impact, contributing to organisational learning, funding requirements and continuous improvement.
· Maintain accurate records and use data to identify trends, gaps and opportunities in volunteering participation.
· Work with communications colleagues to promote volunteering opportunities, campaigns and success stories.
Produce high-quality case studies, reports and sector updates that demonstrate the impact of volunteering in Bury.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £25,750.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person
