Volunteer Co-ordinator Steps to Employment Project (StEP)
Volunteer Co-ordinator Steps to Employment Project (StEP)
£23,770.50 (£13,311 pro rata)
Closing Date: 9.00am Monday 20th November 2023
ECHO is a charity mainly working with people with moderate or severe learning difficulties. We also support people with mental health needs or who have physical or sensory impairments. ECHO runs 30 different activities each week in community settings across Herefordshire.
ECHO’s Steps to Employability Project (StEP) is a National Lottery Community Fund supported programme that builds on the success of our previous Inclusive Volunteering Project. The aim of the project is to identify volunteering, work experience and employment opportunities within local Herefordshire communities for beneficiaries to include ECHO participants and supported volunteers, and to work with volunteers within ECHO projects.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated person to join our Steps to Employment Project as a Volunteer Co-ordinator. ECHO currently has over 150 volunteers, with 57% having extra support needs. The person appointed will work collaboratively with the StEP’s Volunteer Manager to provide support to our existing volunteers and to recruit, place and induct a diverse range of new volunteers from the wider community into ECHO projects and partner organisations.
Ideally, the applicant will have experience of supporting disabled people either professionally or in their personal life, but a demonstration of commitment to this area of work or experience with other vulnerable groups will be considered.
StEP volunteers work in different projects throughout ECHO and the local community. The Volunteer Co-ordinator will be based at ECHO’s Leominster office, with travel between projects in Leominster and Hereford required. The role is for 21 hours per week, spread between 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday – Friday, with the working pattern open to negotiation. However, the Volunteer Co-ordinator may occasionally need to work outside of these times, which may include evenings and weekends.
If you would like to discuss the role, please contact Roz Johnson on:
01568 620 307 or email roz.johnson@echoherefordshire.co.uk
Click on the links below for a job description, how to apply and application form.
Volunteer Co-ordinator StEP – job description and specification
