Volunteer and Community Engagement Worker

Home-Start Clackmannanshire is a long standing, dynamic charity, striving to ensure every young child (under 12) has the best possible start in life locally. Raising a family has never been easy; our trained volunteers and staff are there to support families through challenging times.We provide a bespoke support package of 1:1 and group services for families, helping them to cope with the stresses and strains of daily life and encourage them to build the skills, confidence, and strength they need to nurture their children for years to come. As part of our service, we run a charity shop in Alloa, which generates income for our support work, offers volunteering opportunities, and is a local Bairn Bank.Through a Home-Start UK partnership and funding through The Pears Foundation, alongside an exciting local initiative with Fairer Futures Partnership, we are excited to be able to offer this one year post, building on what was a new role to our team last year, allowing us to further provide dedicated resource to developing our internal volunteering programme, and supporting the development and implementation of a volunteering programme to support our family hubs across the local authority. Learning from this post will continue to inform Home-Start UK work towards supporting the transformation of volunteering across the network too. This is a fixed term contract, with potential of extension dependent upon sourcing continued funding.Purpose of the jobIn recent years, particularly since COVID, the volunteering landscape has changed significantly both locally and nationally. Traditional roles, such as home visiting and charity retail, have seen declining engagement, requiring us to adapt and evolve to continue supporting our communities effectively. We must remain flexible, create new opportunities, and leverage digital tools to recruit, train, and support volunteers.Through introducing this new role, we will work to systematically assess and develop all aspects of our volunteer programme and support wider volunteering across local family hubs.The role will be structured around three themes:1. Understanding Volunteer Motivations to Improve Recruitment and Retention2. Developing and Implementing Diverse Volunteer Roles across our family support, charity shop work and local family support collaborative family hubs3. Enhancing Accessibility of our Volunteer ProgrammeThe Volunteer and Community Engagement Worker will have a key focus on community engagement, assisting to enhance our community fundraising profile and activities, contributing to the sustainability of the role.You will also:Contribute to the effective day to day operation of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Memorandum & Articles of Association, Home-Start, Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.To maintain high standards of practice within the Home-Start model.To ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.Implement good safeguarding practice in all areas of work.