Volunteer Recruitment Support Officer

Our charity shops are more than just a store - they're a place where you can find unique items, embrace sustainable fashion and homeware, donate your pre-loved items, or volunteer, all whilst supporting our work with children, young people and families.

Volunteers are essential to what we do at Barnardo's. Each year around 17,000 people give 1.8 million hours of their time to support Barnardo's to improve the lives of children, young people and families. The vital work we do wouldn't be possible without the dedication, experience, and passion of volunteers across the charity. For this reason, Barnardo's have embarked on a large national campaign to recruit more volunteers to help our charity shops across the UK thrive.

This post is vital to the success of the campaign. Forming part of the Retail Operations team, the successful candidate will contribute to the professional and timely recruitment of volunteers.

The Volunteer Recruitment Support Officer will provide comprehensive, proactive, and professional volunteer recruitment support services to the Retail Operations team; contributing to the achievement of the Retail & Trading Strategic aims and the Barnardo's Volunteering Strategy.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

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