Salary: £25,986 p.a. (pro-rated to £20,788.80 p.a.)
Location: Hybrid – 3 days on site (Gravesend) and 1 day working remotely
Hours: 30 hours per week
Application Deadline: 19 June 2026
We are looking for an organised, proactive and people-focused HR Volunteering Co-ordinator to support the day-to-day delivery of our volunteering programme.
In this important role, you will coordinate volunteer recruitment, onboarding, compliance checks, record-keeping, engagement activity
and ongoing support. You will play a key part in ensuring volunteers have a positive, safe and meaningful experience, while helping the organisation attract, engage and retain a diverse volunteer community.
Working closely with managers and colleagues across the organisation, you will help identify volunteering needs, support the development of suitable opportunities, and match volunteers to roles where they can make a real difference.
ellenor is a hospice charity in Gravesend providing palliative and end of-life care within the local community. At ellenor, we value inclusivity and focus on providing high-quality services with compassion and care.
We offer professional development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package, including a pension scheme (with the option for NHS Pension Scheme members to transfer their pension), an employee assistance program, discount schemes, a generous annual leave allowance, and much more.
In this role, you will:
- Act as the first point of contact for volunteering enquiries and applications
- Coordinate volunteer recruitment, onboarding and pre-placement checks, while maintaining accurate and GDPR-compliant volunteer
records
- Work with managers to identify volunteering needs and develop suitable opportunities
- Support volunteer engagement, recognition initiatives and events
- Produce reports on volunteer recruitment, engagement and retention, and use data, feedback and good practice to help improve the volunteer experience
We are seeking someone with experience in a co-ordination, administration or people-focused support role, ideally within volunteering, HR, recruitment, customer service or a similar environment.
You will also bring:
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience of maintaining accurate records and using systems or databases
- A professional, responsive and supportive approach
- An understanding of safer recruitment, safeguarding, GDPR and equality, diversity and inclusion
- Confidence using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Experience of supporting events, engagement activities or volunteer programmes would be advantageous
The post holder must be willing to work occasional evenings and weekends to support volunteer events and engagement activity.
This post is subject to DBS clearance.
ellenor is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
