Volunteer Development Coordinator

Salary: £19,972 for 22.5 hours per week (£31,956 FTE)

Contract/

Hours:

Permanent, part-time 3 days per week (flexibility on days)

Location:

Flexible – Office base at Sydenham, South London (with 1 day working from home)

Closing Date:
Sunday 18th January 2026

Interview Date:
Wednesday 28th January 2026

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Volunteer Development Officer to help grow and strengthen our volunteer community. You’ll play a key role in attracting people from a wider range of ethnic backgrounds, reducing barriers to participation, and ensuring volunteers feel valued, supported and heard, while championing equity, diversity and inclusion.

You’ll work closely with volunteers and colleagues across the organisation to deliver positive volunteer experiences and help shape our Volunteering Team Plan. You’ll inspire involvement, build strong stakeholder relationships, and communicate effectively with diverse audiences, creating engaging communications that showcase St Christopher’s as a great place to volunteer.

• Act as a key point of contact for volunteers, responding to enquiries in a friendly, professional and timely way.
• Support volunteers with queries or concerns, using agreed processes and escalating when appropriate.
• Help grow and diversify the volunteer base by supporting inclusive recruitment and flexible and micro-volunteering opportunities.
• Coordinate volunteer communications, including newsletters, website and intranet content, ensuring information is clear, accurate and accessible.
• Lead on volunteer engagement, reward and recognition activities, including events, awards and Volunteers’ Week.
• Coordinate the Volunteer Voices group and volunteer feedback activity, using insight to improve the volunteer experience.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to promote volunteering and develop new opportunities.

The Volunteering Team supports all areas of volunteering, including recruitment, onboarding, problem solving, and volunteer reward and recognition. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering our Volunteering Team Plan to provide an outstanding volunteer experience.

This varied and rewarding role offers an excellent opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and in-depth knowledge in volunteer development and management. If you are an enthusiastic team player with a passion for promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in volunteering, this is your chance to make a real difference.

Please contact Clare Hodder on c. or  if you wish to discuss the role informally, before applying.

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference within the organisation and our local community
• Access to excellent training and development opportunities
• Season ticket loans/cycle to work scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement (25 days increasing to 27 days per annum after 12 months qualifying period)
• A number of health and wellbeing initiatives
• A competitive contributory pension scheme with life assurance scheme and generous beneficiary plan
• An onsite staff canteen
• Access to plenty of free local street parking

To find out more about St Christopher’s and this role, please go to our website

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Previous applicants need not apply

We are committed to:

• Ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• Providing at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Administrative
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care