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Community Volunteering Officer

Details


1099764


City St Georges University of London


01/09/2025


3 Months


Monday to Friday 9am-5pm


Smart Casual

Pay


£18.76


£2.26

Description

Role

  • Please note that this is a FULL-TIME role and is NOT suitable for current students
  • Interviews to be held w/c 18th/19th August
  • Hybrid role

     

Duties and responsibilities

  • Manage and develop the community volunteering brokerage website (https://volunteering.city.ac.uk) for City St George’s students and staff, ensuring a range of opportunities are available that match the variety of the sector and range of professional interests of our students
  • Deliver one-to-one appointments with students, supporting them through various points of their volunteering journey.
  • Support the Senior Community Volunteering Officer in sourcing partnerships that support service learning / community-engaged learning
  • Organise and / or promote one-off events that introduce students to volunteering
  • Organise and/or promote volunteering fairs, giving students’ the opportunity to meet organisations and discuss the volunteering roles available.
  • Undertake administration and operational duties related to the role. 
  • Support the administration function of the Careers & Employability department generally and undertake other activities as maybe required by the Student Development Manager.
  • Proactively seek new volunteering opportunities and partnerships within Islington and wider London to reflect the population of Commuter students at City St George’s.
  • Work with the Senior Community Volunteering Officer to plan marketing and communications through the year.
  • Promote volunteering to students, making use of the most effective communication channels
  • Build the profile of the volunteering service within Academic Schools
  • Prepare marketing materials, newsletters, handouts etc. in a variety of formats
  • Responsible for running and producing content for the City St George’s Volunteering social media channels, as well as writing articles focussed on volunteering for the website
  • Respond promptly to queries from students, staff and organisations.
  • Ensure all data held is accurate and managed in accordance with Data Protection legislation.

Skills and experience

  • Experience in relationship management.
  • Experience in planning and running events for large numbers of people.
  • Ability to self-motivate and seek opportunities to improve service provision.
  • Creative approach to problem-solving.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication (oral and written, to large and small audiences) and negotiation skills, together with a sensitivity to the needs of others.
  • Good administrative skills and organisational abilities.
  • Ability to manage a number of different tasks simultaneously to a high standard of accuracy and often within strict deadlines.
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a small team or alone with minimal supervision.

Location
Drysdale Building, Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB

Additional information

This advert will expire at 23:59 on 05/08/2025 

Disclaimer: this advert may end earlier if we receive sufficient applications before the deadline. If you wish to apply for this role, please apply sooner rather than later. 

Please note payroll at City University Unitemps, runs monthly with mid-month timesheet cut off dates. Before applying to this role please ensure you view the payroll deadline dates here 

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement (EDI)  

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture, for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. 

We welcome applications regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or social class. For more information on our approaches to encouraging an inclusive environment, please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pages 

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