Volunteer Coordinator

Scvo; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Glasgow Disabled Scouts is seeking a warm and capable Volunteer Coordinator to welcome new volunteers, guide them through joining, PVG and required training, and to attend recruitment events. The role focuses on building relationships with schools and organisations that provide volunteers and ensuring volunteers feel part of the team.

You’ll work 14 hours per week on average, with flexibility around Monday evenings when sections meet, and there is an 18-month fixed-term contract with potential

Qualifications

• Experience in volunteer coordination or recruitment is useful.
• Ability to manage a busy pipeline of volunteer enquiries.
• PVG check will be required.
• Flexible 14 hours per week; mainly Mondays evenings.
• Excellent communication and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Respond to enquiries and guide volunteers through joining and PVG/training.
• Attend volunteer fairs, university and Duke of Edinburgh events to recruit.
• Build relationships with schools, colleges and organisations that send volunteers.
• Check in with volunteers and help them feel part of the team.
• Support Monday evening sessions and be a welcoming face.

Skills

Volunteer coordination

Recruitment

Youth work

Education

Customer service

People skills

Job description

## Volunteer Coordinator* Glasgow Disabled Scouts* Part time* £26,390 – £31,850 pro-rata* Remote: Glasgow. Working from home, with regular attendance in person at Monday evening sessions and recruitment events* Closing 15th November 2026* Advertised from 26th October 2026* 14 hours per week | £14.50 to £17.50 per hour | 18-month contract#### Role**Could you be the welcoming face of our charity?**Glasgow Disabled Scouts (GDS) gives young people aged 8 to 25 with disabilities and additional support needs acrossGlasgow the full Scouting experience: camps, friendships, adventures and independence. We're a charity runentirely by volunteers, from those aged 14 and up right through to our longest-serving leaders, and none of ithappens without them.We're looking for a warm Volunteer Coordinator who enjoys working with people to join us. The role is all aboutpeople: making every new volunteer feel welcomed from their very first enquiry, guiding them through joining,keeping in touch as they settle in, and being a familiar face at our Monday evening sessions.**What you'll do**You'll be the first person a new volunteer hears from. You'll respond to enquiries, have the firstconversation with each new volunteer, guide people through the PVG and training process, and meet them on theirfirst night. You'll attend volunteer fairs, university and Duke of Edinburgh events to bring new people in,and build relationships with the schools, colleges and organisations that send volunteers our way. Once peopleare with us, you'll check in, take an interest in how they're getting on, and help make sure they feelpart of the team.**Who we're looking for**Someone warm, outgoing and reliable, who enjoys people and is good at keeping things moving. You'll be organisedenough to manage a busy pipeline of enquiries and personable enough that a nervous new volunteer of 16 and aleader of ten years both feel at ease with you. Experience in volunteer coordination, recruitment, youth work,education, customer service or another role working closely with people would be useful, and transferable skillsare very welcome. Experience of youth clubs, community groups or other volunteer-led organisations would be abonus, not a requirement. We can teach the process. How you make people feel is what we're really lookingfor.**The role**14 hours a week on average, with the hours shaped by what the role needs rather than fixed days. Volunteerrecruitment comes in waves, with September and the start of term especially busy, so you'll need to flex upwhen enquiries are flowing and will have more breathing space at quieter times. Being responsive during the weekmatters, and because all of our sections meet on a Monday evening, being there on Mondays is an essential partof the role. Around that, we're happy to talk about flexibility that fits with your other commitments.18-month fixed-term contract with the potential for extension, subject to funding. £14.50 to £17.50 per hourdepending on experience (£26,390 to £31,850 full-time equivalent, pro rata to 14 hours, around £10,550 to£12,750 a year). A PVG check will be required.#### Application notesIf this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply with your cv to Hannah Green at Iconic Resourcingdirectly to [e-mail]#### Downloads* Job Description