Home-Start Clackmannanshire is a long standing, dynamic charity, striving to ensure every young child (under 12) has the best possible start in life locally. Raising a family has never been easy; our trained volunteers and staff are there to support families through challenging times.
We provide a bespoke support package of 1:1 and group services for families, helping them to cope with the stresses and strains of daily life and encourage them to build the skills, confidence, and strength they need to nurture their children for years to come. As part of our service, we run a charity shop in Alloa, which generates income for our support work, offers volunteering opportunities, and is a local Bairn Bank.
Through a Home-Start UK partnership and funding through The Pears Foundation, alongside an exciting local initiative with Fairer Futures Partnership, we are excited to be able to offer this one year post, building on what was a new role to our team last year, allowing us to further provide dedicated resource to developing our internal volunteering programme, and supporting the development and implementation of a volunteering programme to support our family hubs across the local authority. Learning from this post will continue to inform Home-Start UK work towards supporting the transformation of volunteering across the network too. This is a fixed term contract, with potential of extension dependent upon sourcing continued funding.
Purpose of the job
In recent years, particularly since COVID, the volunteering landscape has changed significantly both locally and nationally. Traditional roles, such as home visiting and charity retail, have seen declining engagement, requiring us to adapt and evolve to continue supporting our communities effectively. We must remain flexible, create new opportunities, and leverage digital tools to recruit, train, and support volunteers.
Through introducing this new role, we will work to systematically assess and develop all aspects of our volunteer programme.
The role will be structured around three themes:
1. Understanding Volunteer Motivations to Improve our Recruitment and Retention
2. Developing and Implementing Diverse Volunteer Roles across our family support, charity shop work and local family support collaborative family hubs
3. Enhancing Accessibility of our Volunteer Programme
The Volunteer and Community Engagement Worker will have a key focus on community engagement, assisting to enhance our community fundraising profile and activities, contributing to the sustainability of the role.
You will also:
- Contribute to the effective day to day operation of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Memorandum & Articles of Association, Home-Start, Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.
- To maintain high standards of practice within the Home-Start model.
- To ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.
- Implement good safeguarding practice in all areas of work.
Main Responsibilities
Volunteer Development
· Understanding Volunteer Motivations to Improve our Recruitment and Retention
o Use current data and gather new insights into the motivations of existing and potential volunteers.
o Leverage our Communications Strategy, social media insights, and existing family and volunteer data to refine recruitment strategies.
o Explore new evaluation methods, such as video feedback, and place emphasis on capturing the child’s voice.
· Developing and Implementing Diverse Volunteer Roles across our family support, and charity shop work.
o Organise events that promote our organisation, expand our volunteer base, and support fundraising efforts.
o Explore new volunteer opportunities, including: micro-volunteering; virtual volunteering; corporate volunteering; in-house volunteer mentoring and youth volunteering.
o Work closely with our Assistant Manager and Co-ordinators to ensure smooth onboarding of new volunteers.
o Work closely with our local TSI, and wider collaborative partners to continue to embed volunteers within our family hubs locally.
· Enhancing accessibility of our volunteer programme.
o Review and improve all materials, ensuring accessibility in language, format, and readability.
o Develop alternatives such as videos and easy-read materials.
o Increase visibility in the community.
· Support learning to inform a national volunteer transformation project within the Home-Start UK network.
Supporting the work of Home-Start Clackmannanshire
- Undertaking work as delegated by our Assistant Manager and CEO to support the strategic management, development and future funding of the scheme.
- Supporting the implementation of and upholding all Home-Start policies and procedures.
- Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.
- Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the CEO.
- Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally.
Working in Partnership
- Networking appropriately within the community.
The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.
To apply for this role, please complete our application form, which can be found here - We are hiring! Volunteer & Community Engagement Worker (Part-Time) - Home-Start Clackmannanshire
Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £20,399.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
