Position: Volunteer Engagement & Communications Manager
Type: Full-time (35 hours a week), Fixed Term until 27 February 2026
Location: Office-based in London with flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £39,717* per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band and Job Family: Band 3, Charity
*You will start at an entry point salary of £39,717 per annum, increasing to £42,199 after 6 months service and satisfactory performance and to £44,681 after a further 6 months.
An immediate start from February 2025 is desirable.
About the Employer
Our client makes sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything they do. And it’s this commitment that unites them across the UK.
Their strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told this charity is important to them. It gives them a clear and determined focus.
Their work is based on the hopes and aspirations of their MS community. Together they campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
People are this charity's greatest asset and the key to its success. They offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
Please note this is a fixed term contract until 27 February 2026
The charity is looking for an experienced individual who can lead a team and provide high quality communications and engagement activities to volunteers and volunteer managers through a time of change.
You will be expected to lead the Volunteer Engagement and Communications team, ensuring that the organisation has e a high-quality programme of engagement, communication, learning and development across their volunteer community.
The charity is currently going through a programme of transformation to implement a new Volunteer Management System and transform the services and support they provide to the MS community. This includes how they deliver their services across their central offer, and in the regions and nations and in the MS community. It will also involve innovating the charity's services to offer more choice and support, allowing them, to reach more people than ever before. The organisation understands their volunteers and this role are integral to the success of this change.
Closing date for applications: Monday 6 January 2025
How to apply:
Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role.
Please note that although you may be asked by the job board to upload a CV, you are not applying at this stage.
Equal Opportunities
This employer particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
They would be grateful if you completed the supplied equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
Our client is a Disability Confident Employer and they’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both this organisation's recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, you will bw able to contact the employer. You will also be able toask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with them. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if they offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. They currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
More about the charity's employee benefits:
The organisation has a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- in the event of miscarriage or still birth
- to support fertility treatments
- for antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how this charity internally operates (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for this charity's activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal working hours
Safeguarding
This employer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses their services and they come into contact with.
This is regardless of: Gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy, gender reassignment.
This organisation recognises their particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
They have measures in place to protect everyone they come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
No agencies please.
