Advertised from 3 June 2025

Role

About FOSS: Friends of Scottish Settlers (FOSS) envisions a Falkirk District that is multicultural, multilingual, and welcoming, where local people, organisations, and services are equipped, supported, and willing to cultivate wellbeing, solidarity, community, curiosity, and respect among newcomers and longtime residents. Through befriending and other voluntary activities, FOSS enables newcomers to Falkirk District to build links and bridges with other locals, shaping and making use of the knowledge, networks and services we all need to live full, self-determined lives.

FOSS builds fruitful relationships through a culture of integrity, respect, solidarity, empowerment, and welcome. We began as an informal befriending project for resettled Syrian families in 2016, and, primarily through a befriending model, now engage a range of newcomers to Falkirk District including Sudanese, Syrian and Ukrainian refugees and people in the asylum system. With partnership working, targeted activities and programmes, fundraising, advocacy, and good information, FOSS enables local volunteers and newcomers to strengthen and proliferate support networks within our communities. This also helps us to act constructively together in response to rapidly changing world events and policy that impact our lives.

About the role:

Purpose of the post: Experienced Volunteer Coordinator to train, support and grow FOSS’s Volunteer base (currently around 30 Volunteers), as well as coordinate and help produce procedures and resources necessary for Volunteer and Client safety and care. The Volunteer Coordinator will work closely with the FOSS Outreach Officer (Client-care role) to establish and monitor Befriending relationships, oversee non-Befriending Volunteer roles like Material Needs delivery, as well as coordinate and maintain oversight over Volunteer-led activities and Volunteer support of asylum-seeking Clients accommodated in Falkirk’s asylum contingency accommodation. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Application notes

An application pack is available for download below, and is also available on the FOSS website: https://fossfalkirk.org.uk/job-vacancies/

The deadline for applying for this post is 5pm 30 June 2025. Any applications received after this time will not be considered. Please note, CVs are not accepted.

Interviews will take place in Falkirk the week commencing 14 July 2025, and ideally, the applicant would start in August.

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