Volunteer Co Ordinator

BARNARDO'S; Newport; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 26 days

Group pension with matched 4%/6%

Cycle to work

Health plan discounts

Job summary

Barnardo's Newport is seeking a Volunteer Co-ordinator to recruit, support and develop volunteers for the Mentora service, delivering family hubs and a121 Befriending. The role will involve building strong partnerships, guiding volunteers, and upholding safeguarding procedures to ensure a safe, effective service for families and young people.

The successful candidate will work in a supportive team, manage volunteering activities, and contribute to delivering high-quality services across Newport.

Qualifications

• Outgoing, confident communicator able to build trusting relationships.
• Able to proactively seek partnerships and promote the project.
• Experience or volunteering in homelessness, housing or voluntary/community sectors.

Responsibilities

• Establish, develop and sustain volunteering services to meet project and operational needs.
• Recruit, support and develop volunteers to ensure a positive and meaningful volunteering experience.

Skills

Trust building

Stakeholder engagement

Safeguarding knowledge

Education

Experience in homelessness/housing/voluntary sector

Job description

Working with children and young people to be safe, happy, healthy and hopeful.

Barnardos Mentora is recruiting a Volunteer Coordinator to join our team!

• Do you want to work for the UK's largest children's charity?
• Can you build trust and offer support to families, children and adults who may be facing a variety of challenges?
• Can you coach and mentor families and individuals through a process of change?
• Do you have knowledge & experience of working within safeguarding procedures?
• Do you want to work with a supportive, committed, passionate team?

If you have answeredYESto the above questions, you may be the person we seek.

The Mentora Service is part of Barnardos Newport Connect. It provides support to children, young people and families across Newport, through a bank of fully trained volunteers. They deliver fun and informative Family Hubs, with the addition of offering a121 Befriending service.

In this rewarding role, you will establish, develop and sustain volunteering services to meet project and operational needs. You will play a key part in recruiting, supporting and developing volunteers, ensuring they have a positive and meaningful volunteering experience while helping to deliver high-quality services.

We are looking for:

• An outgoing, confident and skilled communicator who is able to build trusting relationships and influence people.
• You will feel confident to speak to people from a wide range of backgrounds with the ability to proactively seek out opportunities to build partnerships and promote the project.
• You will be a self-motivated, committed person with experience of working and/or volunteering in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community

If you would like to make a positive difference in the lives of children, young people and families, we would like to hear from you.

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.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, 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.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

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)

• 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

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.

• Reference number:23914
• Job Title:Volunteer Co Ordinator
• Location:Newport
• Locality:Newport
• Contract type:Fixed term
• End date:31 July 2027
• Hours:37
• Salary:£27,554
• Closing Date:30 October 2026
• Interview Date:TBC

Additional Info

• Information Sheet for Applicants Applying for Positions Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults (updated July 2021).pdf (107.00 KB)
• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (164.07 KB)
• Volunteer Co-ordinator - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (174.27 KB)