Role Profile

Job title:                            Volunteer Project Manager

Location:                           HEY Smile Foundation, providing support across the East Riding of Yorkshire

Reports to (Job Title):         Head of Community Development

Salary scale:                      £27,000 to £30,000 depending on experience

Working Hours:                  37.5 hours per week

Contract Duration:             Two year fixed term contract with potential for extension subject to funding

Closing date:                     Midnight, Sunday 24th April 2022

Volunteer Project Manager

There has never been a more exciting time to join the HEY Smile Foundation team. Our work spans the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE), as well as connecting opportunities with the private and public sector.

We are connected, joining assets to community knowledge, creativity and inspiration. We help VCSE organisations of all shapes and sizes be heard and to play a part in solutions, rather than just highlighting problems.

We have grown significantly in the last 14 years yet remain agile enough to respond to the community’s need, and not prescribe the same methodology ‘because that’s what has always been done’.

We are sustainable in our own right. Whilst developing others, we have ensured we kept one eye on our own platform, securing £3m in assets and generating an average of £800k per year in earned income. Ensuring we can be masters of our own destiny enables us to focus on the Wow not Woe in our communities across Hull and the East Riding.

Covid 19 provided us with an opportunity to share our way of working further, and in the East Riding we are seen as a community lead and the ‘go to charity’. We are proud to say we have the strongest charitable board in the region, and likewise we have a team of highly skilled and proactive charity leaders.

About the Role:

In response to the commencement of the Covid-19 Vaccination programme, Smile coordinated a responsive volunteer programme to support a regional roll out of the vaccine as well as lateral flow testing across Hull and East Yorkshire.  During 2021 we supported over 30 sites with 25,000 volunteering hours by working in partnership with local Health Partners.

Building on this success we are reviewing our volunteering offer, while developing valued place-based volunteering opportunities that will inspire and connect volunteers into roles to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. This will be achieved by working in partnership with other local charities, private businesses and statutory health services.

The Volunteer Project Manager will have day to day responsibility for this new area of work and will have a strong track record of people management and implementing volunteer programmes. As part of the Smile Community Development Team, you will also have the passion and the ability to identify and enable new volunteer development opportunities, creating a stronger volunteering culture across Hull & East Yorkshire.

For an informal discussion about the role contact Nick Middleton, Head of Community Development

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