We are absolutely stoked to be recruiting for a Community and Volunteering Officer to join our small team in Emsworth. If you would like to find out more and apply, please read on! You can download the full job description and application form below.

Are you creative, confident, practical, and a passionate advocate for protecting, enjoying, and conserving our environment and oceans? You will act as the main point of contact for community activities and be the driving force of all community engagement, ensuring that both the core team and volunteers are fully up to date with ongoing events and opportunities.

Role: Community & Volunteering Officer

Job Summary
Salary:  £25,500 per annum
Work location: Charity Base in Emsworth, Hampshire & mobile
Reports to: CEO & COO
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract type: Fixed term 1 year
Closing date: 12:00, Friday 10th May 2024
Interview dates: 21st / 22nd May 2024

The Community & Volunteering Officer will attend relevant events in the community in the area of operations and organise and deliver events for the charity to engage local community groups. These include coordinating and running beach cleans, Borrow Bag sessions and other suitable community events, representing the charity at other organised events (stalls, fairs and activities etc) and giving talks at community group events.

The role also involves building and maintaining a database of volunteers for the Final Straw Foundation, engaging with volunteers year-round, as well as key dates in the year linked to environmental calendar dates i.e. World Ocean’s Day, Earth Day etc. Working with the rest of the team, the successful applicant will help grow the volunteer base across all demographics, ensuring volunteers are supported and trained appropriately. Core to the role is building exciting and varied opportunities for volunteers of all ages within the sector, as well as reaching new volunteers from wider and more diverse backgrounds. 

Working with the senior team, the successful applicant will ensure that the Foundation’s community and volunteer engagement objectives are carried out.

Please apply via email using the application form provided and a covering letter, emailed to recruitment@finalstrawfoundation.org, explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. If you wish to send your CV in addition, please do, but CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

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