The Manchester Men’s Room – Volunteer Coordinator

3 Year Contract Part-Time 2.5 days per week (18.5 Hours)

Salary:£23,000 FTE (£11,500 actual)

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Job title: Volunteer Coordinator

Responsible to:Director

Deadline for Applications: 12:00 Noon Tuesday 5th December

Interviews: Week commencing Monday 18th December

The Manchester Men’s Room (TMR) is arts and social care charity which supports young men engaged in or at risk of involvement in sex work or exploitation. For the last 13 years we have delivered a range of services to marginalised and chaotic young male sex workers and young men at risk of exploitation.As an art based social care charity we place arts based practice at the core of our work. The centrality of the arts to our engagement allows us to develop trust and establish positive and productive relationships with young men living extremely chaotic, marginalised and often harmful lives.

We have recently been fortunate to secure Big Lottery Reaching Communities funding to develop our participatory arts and social care support programmes.As a small frontline charity, volunteers are vital to our ability to deliver an effective service to the men we support. Volunteers are involved in all aspects of the organisations activities including creative engagement, street outreach and netreach to online sex workers.

The Volunteer Coordinator is a new post based in our office in central Manchester. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop and expand our existing provision ensuring our award winning and innovative approach continues to reach, engage, support and empower vulnerable young men across Manchester.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

The Volunteer Coordinator will co-ordinate and develop our volunteer programme, ensuring that we have a safe, effective and accessible range of volunteering opportunities which meets the needs of our services users and enhances the effectiveness and reach of our provision.The post-holder will develop and manage a co-ordinated programme which demonstrably values volunteers and enables us to meet the whole-person needs of this highly marginalised and vulnerable group.

This post is subject to a standard DBS check.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Post-holder:

  • Manage TMR’s Volunteer Programme including leading on the recruitment, placement, retention and development of all volunteers
  • Design and deliver a service-wide induction and training programme for all volunteers
  • Monitor and evaluate the Volunteer Programme and provide data and written reports for internal and external reporting as required
  • Manage all volunteering related enquiries by email, phone, website, through social media and face to face
  • Work proactively across the organisation to assess volunteering needs and generate opportunities and role descriptions based on organisational need
  • Make positive, active representation of and advocacy for TMR’s Volunteer Programme both within the organisation and in partnership with other arts, cultural and voluntary sector organisations across the city including celebrating our volunteers’ contribution internally and externally
  • Work with external partners to identify and develop volunteering opportunities for TMR service users
  • Keep up to date with best practice, legislation and national and regional initiatives relevant to volunteeringdisseminating this learning across the organisation
  • Manage the Volunteer Programme budget, and oversee the processing of expenses and related record keeping
  • Support the development and management of student placement opportunities

Person Specification - Essential

  • Experience of recruiting and managing volunteers
  • Experience of designing and delivering training
  • Experience of monitoring and evaluation
  • Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and best practice in volunteer support
  • Experience of developing new volunteering opportunities in response to organisational and service user need
  • Experience of developing and planning and delivering new and existing volunteering provision
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with a wide range of people
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing and presentation
  • Strong IT skills
  • Ability to manage own workload and priorities
  • Leadership skills including a high degree of motivation and the ability to motivate others
  • Willingness to work anti-social hours including evenings and occasional weekends

Person Specification - Desirable

  • Social Work or Youth & Community Work or Applied Arts Practice Degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience
  • Experience of leading an arts based volunteering programme
  • Experience of working/volunteering in an arts or cultural organisation
  • Experience and understanding of working/volunteering in the context of socially engaged participatory arts practice
  • Experience of working or volunteering within one or more of the following fields: homelessness, sexual exploitation, sex work, youth offending, substance misuse, socially engaged arts
  • Experience of recruiting and managing individuals and teams
  • Experience of multi-agency and partnership working

How to Apply

To apply please complete the application form which is available on our website:

Please email a copy of your completed application form to:

You may also request an application by post and post your completed application to:

The Director – The Men’s Room, Grd Floor Swan Buildings, 20 Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JW

Please do not send a CV or covering letter. Only information contained in the application form will be used to shortlist candidates for interview.

Company Registration: 07073286 / Charity Number: 1146658