Volunteering Officer

As Volunteering Officer you will recruit, manage, supervise, support and develop volunteers at two award-winning heritage sites; the 1620s House & Garden at Donington le Heath, near Coalville and Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre.
Based at 1620s House & Garden, you will support our existing volunteers to deliver the public offer at the two sites. Volunteers guide visitors around an historic house and interpret and maintain a period style garden at the 1620s House & Garden and enhance visitor experience in the exhibition at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, whilst event volunteers support the busy event programme across both sites. You will work alongside Operational and Access and Interpretation colleagues to enable our volunteers to enhance our visitor experience and public access to these heritage sites, while ensuring the continued delivery of best practice in volunteer management.
You will work with the service's Participation Team and Heritage colleagues to develop new opportunities for volunteering, as well as ensuring the volunteer teams are equipped, trained, happy and safe in their work. This will include the population of volunteer rotas, the processing of expense forms, developing training programmes and creating and updating risk assessments. You will be supported by the Volunteering Manager, who provides guidance on volunteering policies and best practice across the Communities and Wellbeing service. Another Volunteering Officer manages the volunteers at Harborough, Melton Carnegie and Charnwood museums.
This post is the subject of an Enhanced DBS check.
Flexibility in working across the week to support volunteering programmes is essential, and our sites are open at weekends.

Experience in guiding and supporting volunteers preferably in museum galleries, displays and collections spaces
- Knowledge of best practice for volunteer management
- Experience of successfully delivering volunteer projects
- Supporting Health and Safety compliance and implementing Health and Safety audits and reviews
- Communicating with service users in a museum or other relevant public setting
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
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