Volunteer Services Co-ordinator
Flexible Location (hybrid, UK)

About Us

Sported is a leading charity supporting the UK's largest network of sport and physical activity groups and we exist to provide the skills, resources and funding needed for them to become sustainable and deliver services to the young people and communities they serve.

It has never been a harder time to be a young person growing up in the UK. Poverty, crime and mental health issues coupled with youth unemployment and COVID-19, have compounded already disadvantaged communities and individuals and widened inequalities.

We support the thousands of community sports groups that seek to remove barriers from young people’s lives to allow them to thrive against the odds.

We’re now looking for a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £25,000 - £32,000 per annum (depending on experience)
- 25 days’ holiday in addition to statutory Bank Holidays
- Two additional days of personal leave per year for religious holidays and/or wellbeing days
- Volunteer Days - two additional days of paid leave each year to volunteer for another charity or our Sported members
- Up to five days of paid study leave for self-funded education/training
- Flexible working arrangements
- A confidential counselling service
- Access to a pension scheme to give you peace of mind
- Virtual Diversity & Inclusion ‘Open Space’ every month
- Cycle to Work Scheme to support our commitment to promoting healthy living
- Discounted offer for a 12-month Tastecard+ membership

This is a superb opportunity for a compassionate, customer-focused individual with experience working with volunteers to join our dedicated organisation.

As volunteering forms the keystone of how we deliver services, we need your expertise to ensure our volunteers have the best experience with us and we continue to deliver outstanding services.

In return, we’ll make sure you have everything you need to feel just as cared for, whether that’s flexible working arrangements, study leave to enhance your skills even further or the option to get a great bike to cycle to work every day!

So, if you want to help us deliver vital support that is a genuine lifeline for small grassroots groups, then apply today.

The Role

As a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator, you will act as the first point of contact for all potential and existing Sported volunteers, providing an engaging and rewarding experience.

Focusing on all aspects of our volunteering offering including recruitment and onboarding, you will work closely with our regional and national teams, supporting the engagement and utilisation of volunteers.

You will also create volunteer resources, deliver training events and identify volunteers to support and deliver webinars for members.

About You

To be considered as a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator, you will need:

- Experience working across a large, mostly remote team of staff and volunteers
- Experience delivering customer focused services
- Database management experience
- Excellent interpersonal and customer services skills
- Fantastic organisational and administrative skills
- Superb written and verbal communication skills

The closing date for this role is 27th February 2023.

Other organisations may call this role Volunteer Development Co-ordinator, Volunteer Co-ordinator, Volunteer Officer, Volunteering Experience and Engagement Co-ordinator, or Volunteer Supervisor.

We actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, especially from ethnically diverse, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities as well as those with lived experiences of tackling inequalities, as we believe diverse voices are instrumental in creating transformational change.

So, if you’re looking for a rewarding role as a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.