Job description

VOLUNTEERING MATTERS

Permanent Contract

Job Ref: V535

Hours per week: 28 hours per week – (Flexible days/hours)

Salary: £20,000 (£25,000 FTE) plus inner London weighting £2692.80 and attractive employee benefits package

Start date: ASAP

Location: Home based with travel across London Brent Borough

Closing date: 27th February 2025

Interview date and Location: 7th March 2025

Role Purpose

To develop and deliver all aspects of our Grandmentors project across London, with particular focus on Brent borough, ensuring it achieves its aims, objectives, outcomes, and targets. The post holder will work closely with the Leaving Care team within Brent Borough Council and local volunteers to ensure that we improve and empower the lives of care leavers (aged 16-25) through the unique power of inter-generational mentoring.

Key Duties Responsibilities:

To hit the ground running to effectively deliver the service to ensure the project meets its agreed targets and milestones.
Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders and local authority staff at a day-to day level.
To ensure volunteers are recruited, appropriately trained and supported in their role; this will involve processing volunteer expenses, DBS checks and maintaining the database.
To ensure regular communication between project staff and volunteers is maintained and that regular supervision for volunteers is provided.
To work with your line manager to ensure project expenditure is in line with the budget.
To maintain accurate administration, for all aspects of the project.
To maintain accurate records on all aspects of the project and submit data onto a secure database.
To manage and maintain effective monitoring and evaluation records to capture impact and outcomes and ensure contractual compliance.
To implement and maintain appropriate risk assessment management processes.
To prepare regular reports for both internal and stakeholder purposes.
To develop relevant information to promote and raise the profile of Volunteering Matters locally.
To promote and adhere to Volunteering Matters Equality and Diversity Policy and all other Volunteering Matters policies which relate to the work of Grandmentors.
To comply with the applicable Health and Safety and Safeguarding regulations.
To contribute to joint working and teamwork across Volunteering Matters.

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