Volunteer and Health Development Manager

Cambridgeshire County Council; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 24,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Additional annual leave

Flexible bank holidays

Shared AVCs pension

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

IDEAL network

Recognition awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Car Lease

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is recruiting for a part-time, fixed-term role within the Library Development Team in Cambridgeshire Libraries. You will lead on volunteering and health projects, while line-managing two Area Volunteer Coordinators and collaborating with Public Health.

The role is hybrid with home working and county-wide travel, 18.5 hours per week, and interviews will be held at Cambridge Central Library on 19 October 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience of developing volunteers within a public service.
• Ability to manage and empower volunteer teams.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and inclusive practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, promote and coordinate volunteering opportunities across Cambridgeshire Library Service.
• Manage the Library at Home service and two Area Volunteer Coordinators.
• Collaborate with Public Health on health projects delivered via the Library Service.

Skills

Volunteer management

Team leadership

Project development

Partnership working

Safeguarding

Equality & Inclusion

Job description

About the role

Do you have a passion for managing and promoting volunteering and improving health outcomes for the community? If the answer is yes, then this could be the role for you.

You will be part of the Library Development Team, helping to shape the future of the service and reporting directly to the Library Development Manager and the wider Library Leadership Team. Your focus will be managing an award-winning team to lead on the planning, development and delivery of volunteering and targeted health projects within Cambridgeshire Libraries.

This is a hybrid role (the location of Cambridge Central Library is nominal). You will be able to work flexibly, working from diverse locations, including home. There is an expectation that you will travel to locations across the county, as required.

The current post holder is on secondment. This is a fixed term, part-time post until 2nd November 2027. The working hours are 18.5 hours per week.

Interviews will be held in person at Cambridge Central Library on Monday 19th October 2026.

What will you be doing?

• To develop, promote and co-ordinate volunteering opportunities across Cambridgeshire Library Service.
• To manage the Library at Home service, including the direct line management of two Area Volunteer Coordinators.
• There will also be the opportunity to collaborate with Public Health on the effective and efficient delivery of targeted health projects through the Library Service.

About you

This part-time post will suit a self-motivated, organised, flexible individual with experience of developing volunteers.

You will need to work flexibly with a requirement for some weekend and evening working as required. The ability to travel around the county is essential.

Please note, you can disregard reference in the job description to managing the Community Health Information Service as this will not form part of this fixed term role. Please give specific examples to demonstrate how you meet the criteria listed, including what knowledge or experience you have regarding:

• Managing teams, including volunteers.
• Project development and delivery.
• Partnership working.
• Safeguarding.
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity.

Library work is physically demanding; please see the Job Hazards attached below for more details.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.