Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator

Guide Dogs - Together, We Can Make the World Easier to Navigate

Come and join us as an engaging and expert Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator and be part of something life‑changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator at Guide Dogs, you’ll lead the promotion of volunteering opportunities, driving the attraction of new volunteers to support and grow our services and income. The Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinator will be an expert in strategic volunteer recruitment, using a range of channels including social media, local media, community engagement, and partnerships. Our Local Volunteering Attraction Coordinators play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

This role is home-based in the Nottingham area as regular travel is required throughout Nottinghamshire and Sheffield, this includes Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and some South parts of Yorkshire. . This role will involve out of core hours working, including weekends to attend events. Travel requirements will vary from week to week, but typically involve travel on approximately two days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver recruitment plans to meet volunteer targets within budget.
• Build strong relationships with community groups, schools, and local stakeholders.
• Represent Guide Dogs at events to promote volunteering and generate interest.
• Plan and run regular local events to drive applications.
• Work with Communications to maximise media and marketing opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams to meet local and national recruitment goals.

You

You’ll have a creative, results-driven and collaborative approach to volunteer recruitment and marketing campaigns. You’ll enjoy working in a dynamic, community-focused environment with a mix of independent and team-based activity, with a dedicated focus on attracting and engaging volunteers. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• GCSEs in Maths and English at grades A - C or equivalent (QCF level 2 / SQCF level 5).
• Proven demonstrable experience in recruitment of volunteers, customers or donors, community outreach, and/or related fields.
• Proven demonstrable experience in creating consistent advertising collateral in line with brand and product values.
• Proven demonstrable experience delivering marketing campaigns from brief to live.
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed. Travel is expected to ensure some physical presence at key sites, and to host events in your designated areas.

Benefits

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
• Real Living Wage Employer
• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
• The option to buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cash-back scheme
• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
• And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

How to apply

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.  Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier.  We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately.  We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes!  You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

Safer recruitment

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.