Community Volunteering Officer

About us

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About the role

You will provide expert volunteer management advice, guidance, and coaching that empowers partner organisations to effectively recruit, support, and develop volunteers. The role ensures that volunteer managers across community, corporate and statutory organisations have the skills, tools, knowledge, and confidence to deliver high-quality, compliant, and impactful volunteering programmes. You will build, foster and maintain excellent relationships with volunteer managers, embedding a culture of volunteer involvement, innovation approaches and continuous improvement.

About you

The skills and experience we are looking for in the role are:

• Strong interpersonal engagement skills and the ability to influence, persuade, guide, and motivate others you don’t directly manage
• Excellent knowledge and understanding in all aspects of volunteer management practice, sector standards, policies, procedures and equity as well as emerging issues in all aspects of volunteering
• Knowledge and experience of delivering training including facilitation and coaching
• Experience of working collaboratively and establishing positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

This role is home-based with mobile working. On a monthly basis you can expect to travel across the UK to meet with partners face to face. As such, you must have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle to travel regularly. There will be a requirement to attend in-person team meetings on a quarterly basis and a department get together annually.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on 12th May. Online interviews will be held TBC. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] for advice and reasonable adjustments. We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people. If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] please email us at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].

Documents

• Interviewing at Macmillan (for candidates).pdf (203.96 KB)
• Benefits at Macmillan December 2023.pdf (386.61 KB)
• Community Volunteering Officer_2026.pdf (160.72 KB)