Job Title: Volunteer Programme Coordinator

Salary: £27K - £31K per annum dependent on skills and experience

Location: Chilcomb House, Winchester – With regular travel across Hampshire

Hours: 37 hours per week

Type of Contract: Fixed Term – Until November 2026

Referral Category: Category B

Job Description: Volunteer Programme Coordinator

Are you passionate about empowering communities, creating positive change, and fostering a spirit of giving back?

As a dynamic, community-focussed charity we believe in the power of volunteers to transform communities and are looking for a Volunteer Programme Coordinator to help us achieve our vision to change lives through culture.

We are delighted to have recently won further funding from the National Lottery Heritage Innovation Fund to support us to grow and expand our volunteering programmes. This role is fixed term to help us not only create an industry leading volunteering programme through engagement, development and unique volunteering opportunities but to also support with the development of pathways into volunteering and apprenticeships from our social impact programmes.

We are open to considering flexible working proposals such as hybrid working, part time hours and job share options.

A bit about you

You’ll be the driving force of our volunteer programmes, ensuring our volunteers are engaged, motivated, and well-equipped to make a meaningful impact. You’ll be energetic, creative, highly organised, and self-motivated to help us improve our programme, expand our volunteer cohorts, and cultivate partnerships. You’ll be comfortable working with a variety of people as the first-line support and point of contact for everything volunteering.

You’ll bring previous experience of managing or coordinating staff or volunteers as well as working with systems and delivering reporting to aid decision making. Importantly you’ll be able to build strong relationships, influence others and work collaboratively as part of a team.

What it’s like to work for us

At Hampshire Cultural Trust we have a vision to create inspirational culture experiences that enrich and transform lives. We manage and support 20+ attractions across Hampshire and deliver county-wide outreach programmes that bring great culture to local communities. We also deliver a diverse range of wider social impact initiatives targeted at those who are most vulnerable or disadvantaged and who would not usually have access to arts and culture.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and a culture that actively values difference. We recognise people from different backgrounds and experiences bring valuable insights to the workplace and enhance the way we perform and work. Our levels of employee engagement are high and our organisational culture positive.

We will be running a dynamic recruitment process so we would encourage candidates to submit an application as soon as possible as we will be interviewing candidates before the closing date.

To apply please fill in the application form with an up-to-date CV.

Closing date for applications: 2 Febuary 2025

To find out more about us visit our website www.hampshireculture.org.uk and https://careers.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/