Volunteering Development Manager

British Heart Foundation (BHF) has an amazing opportunity for a Volunteer Development Manager to join our Volunteering team. This is a home-based role with some travel across the UK, offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere while making a significant impact. The extent of your travel will be dependent on your home location. About the role As an integral part of the Volunteering Team, this role focuses on enhancing and sustaining a proactive corporate volunteering programme at the BHF. Success will hinge on close collaboration with colleagues in Retail and MFE. Beyond corporate volunteering, you will support other directorates in involving volunteers and seek opportunities to increase volunteer participation across the BHF. As a senior team member, you will provide expert advice, support change governance, and ensure effective work prioritisation, working with internal teams and external partners to advance the BHF's mission through volunteering. Key responsibilities include:

• Enhancing and sustaining a proactive corporate volunteering programme at the BHF
• Collaborating closely with colleagues in Retail and MFE for successful programme delivery
• Supporting other directorates in involving volunteers and increasing participation
• Providing expert advice and supporting change governance as a senior team member
• Ensuring effective prioritisation of work and collaboration with internal teams and external partners
• Advancing the BHF's mission through strategic volunteering initiatives
Working arrangements This is a home-based role with some travel into BHF offices and across the UK. Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

Are you passionate about making a difference and play a pivotal role in enhancing and sustaining our corporate volunteering programme?, We are looking for an experienced individual to enhance our volunteering programmes, with strong skills in stakeholder engagement, volunteer management systems, and project implementation. To be successful in this role you'll have:
• A proven track record with large-scale volunteer management in fast-paced environments
• Skills in engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Experience managing or supporting IT systems, especially volunteer management systems
• Good general knowledge of the third sector and the role of volunteers
• Familiarity with digital onboarding systems and stewardship platforms
• Experience working across multi-site organizations with remote workers
  
  Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we've helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We're investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed., It's quick and easy to apply for a role at BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you'll need is an up to date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role's criteria. As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.