Recruitment & Community Engagement Coordinator
About the company
The opportunity You will join a small, supportive team where your contribution genuinely matters. Based at the Oxted office, with travel to organisations and community groups across Tandridge and Reigate and Banstead, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to local people and communities.
Your tasks
We are recruiting a Recruitment & Community Engagement Coordinator to help connect people with rewarding volunteering opportunities and support local organisations to find the volunteers they need.
This is a varied, people-focused role combining customer service, recruitment, marketing and community engagement. You will be helping people find opportunities that suit their interests and skills, while working with organisations to understand their needs and promote their opportunities to the right audience.
What will you be doing?
- Responding to enquiries from people interested in volunteering, understanding what motivates them and helping them find suitable opportunities.
- Promoting volunteering opportunities through websites, communications, events and other local channels to attract new volunteers.
- Speaking with voluntary and community organisations to understand their requirements and help them recruit the right people.
- Interviewing prospective volunteers, discussing their interests and experience, and matching them with suitable opportunities.
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with volunteers, community groups and partner organisations across East Surrey.
- Keeping records and databases up to date, following up enquiries and monitoring outcomes.
- Identifying opportunities to improve the service, increase engagement and help more people get involved in their local community.
Requirements
Are you a people person who enjoys building relationships, spotting opportunities and making things happen? Do you have a background in customer service, recruitment, marketing or a similar role where engaging with people and achieving results really matters?
What are we looking for? Ideally, you will bring experience from a customer-facing, recruitment, marketing or community-focused role, where you have had to engage people, understand their needs and encourage them to take action.
You will be a confident communicator who enjoys talking to different people, building relationships and finding solutions. You will also be organised, comfortable using digital systems and able to manage your workload without needing constant supervision.
Most importantly, you will be proactive, results-driven and motivated by making a difference. You will enjoy working towards goals, following things through and seeing the positive results of your efforts.
Previous volunteer recruitment experience would be an advantage, but it is not essential. Relevant skills from other sectors are very welcome, and full training and ongoing support will be provided.
**Please only apply if you are already eligible to work in the UK (indefinitely & without sponsorship)
How to apply
For your information *Interested? Please send your CV in as a Word format only
Due to the large numbers of responses we receive, despite our best efforts it is not possible to respond to every application. Therefore, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for this particular role and if you haven't heard from us within 7 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please feel free however to apply for further roles and we will certainly keep your details on file and contact you with suitable vacancies.
Other
Oxted | £27,000–£29,000 FTE | 21 hours per week
Additional information: Occasional out-of-hours events, with time off in lieu in line with policy.
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