Volunteer Coordinator
Contract: Permanent | 4 days / 28 hrs per week
Location: Hybrid (North London community service locations / homeworking)
FEAST With Us (FEAST) is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and proactive Volunteer Coordinator to play a key role in growing, supporting and celebrating our incredible volunteer community, with skills and passion for building relationships and delivering community impact.
Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do and you'll oversee the entire volunteer journey, from attraction and recruitment through to onboarding, development, engagement and recognition. You'll be the central point of contact, ensuring volunteers have a positive and rewarding experience while helping us continue to expand and strengthen our volunteer programme.
About FEAST With Us - Feeding and Empowering All Sustainably Together (FEAST)
FEAST’s mission is to improve the nutrition, wellbeing, and health of people at risk of food insecurity. We work across London with charity and community partners to deliver nutrutious meal services and healthy eating programmes in homeless hostels and community centres.
Our meals use surplus food, and provide welcoming, inclusive spaces that bring people together and reduce loneliness. Our healthy eating programme empowers people by building nutrition knowledge, and developing practical cooking, food hygiene and budgeting skills.
We’re a small but ambitious charity, with a passionate, supportive and collaborative team of 11 staff and 9 Trustees, supported by c200 volunteers.
Key Responsibilities:
Volunteer recruitment:
Volunteer management:
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Identify volunteering requirements and ensure sufficient coverage across projects and services
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Review and improve volunteer processes and frameworks
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Develop and manage our volunteer management platform, Volunteero
Volunteer engagement & retention
Line Management Responsibilities: PT Volunteer Administrator (1 day per week)
You will have
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Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and volunteer management systems (ideally Volunteero)
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Marketing and communications capabilities, including use of Canva
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Level 3 Safeguarding qualification (or willingness to complete)
Desirable experience:
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Project management, corporate partnership management or events management
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Food insecurity and/or nutrition
Key Benefits
