Volunteer Coordinator (23649)

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Service Objectives

The Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Children and Family Centre's support young children and their families to thrive, achieve, develop, and build resilience to cope with life.

Role and duties specific to this post

The role of the Volunteer Coordinator is to support the service through the identification, recruitment, training, monitoring, and supervision of volunteers. Volunteers contribute to the running of our service in a variety of roles, including:

• Group helpers – supporting our Practitioners to provide a range of groups/ activities for families and children 0-19years (or up to 25years for young people with SEND).
• Other volunteers to support administrative functions for the service such as reception, admin, gardeners etc.

The role also involves work to support the promotion of volunteering opportunities and wider service aims, including:

• Promoting and coordinating short-term work experience opportunities for young people.
• Delivering presentations and workshops in schools and other venues to promote a greater understanding of the service, and its volunteering opportunities.
• Coordinate community activities/ events supported by volunteers to support community engagement, promote the service, and volunteering opportunities.

Most of the work will be across the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire localities, but this is a countywide role, requiring the postholder to be flexible where needed to meet service needs. It therefore may include working across the county with other Children and Family Centre Volunteer Coordinators.

For these reasons, access to your own transport would be strongly desirable. An office base will be available at one of our Children and Family Centre's (at either Riversley Park, Camphill, Stockingford, or Atherstone), but some home working may also be required.

This is a permanent part-time job-share post for 18 hours per week. The regular work pattern will be set hours between 8.30am - 5pm Monday to Friday, however, the post also requires the flexibility to occasionally work outside these times at weekends or in evenings.

We are looking to appoint a person with:

• Knowledge and understanding of good practice when working with volunteers.
• Experience of successfully recruiting, supervising, monitoring and supporting others in a paid or unpaid situation, or experience of coordinating a group of people to achieve a complex desired outcome.
• Good working knowledge/ experience of using common IT software (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc). Experience of using virtual platforms to facilitate virtual meetings/training is also desirable.
• Experience of delivering training to individuals or groups and delivering talks or presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Experience of working with children, young people, parents/ carers.

If you'd like a busy and varied role where you will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team, then this could be the role for you.

You will need a friendly and welcoming disposition, and be confident, with good communication skills. Together, you'll work as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team to support improved outcomes for children and families.

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

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values

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• Reference number:

23649

• Job Title:

Volunteer Coordinator

• Location:

Nuneaton

• Locality:

Nuneaton, North Warwickshire, Warwickshire Localities

• Contract type:

Permanent

• Hours:

18

• Salary:

£27,554 FTE (£13,681.99 Pro rata)

• Closing Date:

4 October 2026

• Interview Date:

TBC

Benefits

• Discounts at 100's of retailers
• Employee suggestion scheme
• Company pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
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Documents

• Volunteer Co-ordinator - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (174.27 KB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (162.93 KB)
• Addendum- Advert - Volunteer Coordinator August 2026.pdf (21.78 KB)

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