Volunteering Services Delivery Lead

Volunteering Services Delivery Lead
Contract type: Fixed term contract (Two posts - 6 months and 8 months)
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Home-based
Salary range: £28,000 - £31,000

About us

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

Do you have exceptional volunteer management skills and the passion to deliver impactful emotional support services for people living with cancer?  

It’s an exciting time to join Macmillan Cancer Support as we've launched our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

This is a pivotal role in which you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of Macmillan’s Volunteering Services to people living with cancer. You will manage volunteers delivering the Buddy Service, assess referrals at entry point and ensure continuous delivery of the service within Macmillan guidelines. This role champions Macmillan’s commitment to grow a wide reaching and inclusive volunteer community.

About you

You’ll support the growth of volunteering in health and social care services by delivering volunteer involving opportunities and enabling their sustainability. A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively with your peers to enable a positive volunteer experience and delivery of effective emotional support interventions to people living with cancer. 

It’s particularly important that you demonstrate sound knowledge of policies and procedures relevant to this role and experience of planning. A rounded understanding of volunteering in its widest sense is useful in addition. Most important of all to achieve our goals, you will have a successful track record in supporting a range of volunteer led services working with a vulnerable client group within a health and care setting.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 4th May
Interview dates: Online interviews will take place on 11th and 12th May

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.