Volunteer and Support Coordinator (Homelessness)

Housing Justice; Wrexham; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave and flexibility

Flexible working

Home working support

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Housing Justice is seeking a Volunteer and Support Coordinator (Homelessness) to develop our Wrexham project, recruit and manage volunteers, and coordinate support delivery. The role is home-based with regular local travel and part-time flexibility within a 35-hour week.

You will work to build relationships with local services, train volunteers, oversee their activities, and help people facing homelessness access support. The post is permanent subject to funding until 31 March 2027.

Qualifications

• Experience of working and/or volunteering in homelessness, housing, or voluntary/community sectors.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, support and supervise volunteers; oversee the support volunteers offer.
• Develop and grow the Wrexham project and local partnerships.
• Coordinate and deliver volunteer activities with local services.

Skills

Communication

Public speaking

Relationship building

Job description

Job Title: Volunteer and Support Coordinator (Homelessness)

InternalJob Title: Wrexham Citadel Coordinator

Hours: 35 per week (full time)

Location:Wrexham: home-based with regular travel (mostly local)

Contract: Permanent, subject toongoing funding

Salary: £36,192

About us

Housing Justice brings together communities and finds solutions to homelessness by building personal connections, a sense of belonging, and creating justice in the housing system. We train and support volunteers to offer various accommodation options while building a network of local support. This includes providing personalised assistance to help individuals access relevant local services and address their other needs. Through compassionate, courageous, and collaborative action, we implement innovative solutions to tackle housing injustice, enhance the quality of housing, and elevate the voices and experiences of groups affected by housing injustice to both local and national governments.

About Citadel

Citadel is a volunteer-powered homelessness prevention project that supports people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness, to find a place to live, settle into a home, and feel part of a welcoming and supportive community. Coordinators recruit and train volunteers before matching them with a person referred for support. Coordinators and volunteers work closely with people who have been referred, to establish what matters to them and how best they can support them.

About you

We are looking for an outgoing, confident and skilled communicator, comfortable with building relationships, including for support, influencing people, and with public speaking. You will be a self-motivated, committed person with experience of working and/or volunteering in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community sectors.

About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing our Wrexham project, continuing and growing the support we offer and relationships we’ve built. The focus of the role is volunteer management and support coordination: specifically the recruitment, training, support and supervision of volunteers; and overseeing the support volunteers offer. This role is currently funded by the local authority until 31st March 2027- this project has run since 2021, and we expect to receive future funding.

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave, 3 of which are fixed between Christmas and New Year. This is in addition to bank holidays and pro-rata if part time.

• After 3 years of service, you are entitled to one additional day of holiday for each additional year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days, pro-rata if part time.

• We offer flexible working. Not all posts can be made flexible, but where possible we operate core hours of 10-3pm, with employees able to flex their working day around these. Any flexibility is at the discretion of the line manager and relevant senior manager.

• As this role is offered as partly Home Working, we will provide some financial support to get you set up with appropriate equipment.

• We offer an employee assistance programme through Spectrum Life, which can be used by you and your family for a range of advice and support.

• We offer a cycle-to-work scheme.

Please note that we retain the right to close applications early if we find the right candidate, and will be interviewing on a rolling basis.