Advertised from 12 May 2025

Role

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, we are excited to be able to offer a brand-new role within our team, for a Volunteer and Community Engagement Worker, to allow us to provide dedicated resource to reviewing and developing our volunteering programme. Learning from this post will inform Home-Start UK work towards supporting the transformation of volunteering across the network. This is a fixed term contract, with potential of extension dependent upon sourcing continued funding.

Purpose of the job

In 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.

The role will be structured around three themes:

1. Understanding Volunteer Motivations to Improve our Recruitment and Retention
2. Developing and Implementing Diverse Volunteer Roles across our family support, and charity shop work.
3. Enhancing Accessibility of our Volunteer Programme

The 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.

Application notes

Closing Date: Friday 6 June 5pm

Please return your completed application form to our CEO Louise Orr at louiseorr@hsclacks.co.uk

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