Volunteer Coordinator

Part Time - 25 Hours – Permanent

Salary Scale:  £20,092 - £21,748 per annum

About Us and the Role

About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire provide a wide range of services that help local communities and visitors to connect and engage with their local heritage. We safeguard Warwickshire’s archives, history and natural sciences, protect its historic and natural environment and provide high quality arts and cultural opportunities and lifelong learning for everyone in the County and beyond.

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire has several sites based in and around Warwick, Market Hall Museum, St Johns House, Warwickshire County Record Office and a Collections Centre for the museum collections. We are a countywide service and working with partners from within and outside Warwickshire County Council offer outreach services to local communities.

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire’s volunteers

There is a wide ranging and active volunteer base already working across the Heritage and Culture Warwickshire teams, some of which have been working on long standing projects for many years. Volunteers are essential in enhancing the visitor experience to our public sites and enhancing access to collections behind the scenes. Behind the scenes our volunteers are involved in collections care with the curatorial team. At the County Record Office volunteers are making the information contained in the archive collections more readily available as well as helping the conversation team with tasks such as cleaning photographic negatives.

At the Market Hall museum our visitor service volunteers support the Museum Assistant team to meet and greet visitors, give talks and tours and run regular groups such as the monthly knit and natter meet up. Volunteers also work with the Learning and Community Engagement team to support audience engagement with groups such as Arty Tots, Stay and Play and the ReCollections dementia café. As well as volunteers working on site we have a remote volunteer team that work with the archivists transcribing collections from home to populate searchable databases.  Remote volunteering allows us to expand our volunteering base beyond our physical sites which are based in Warwick.

The role of the Volunteer Coordinator is to work with colleagues in teams across Heritage and Culture Warwickshire to ensure volunteers are in the right role and feel fully equipped and trained to do that role.

In the next few years Heritage and Culture Warwickshire would like the Volunteer Coordinator role to also focus on the development of opportunities for volunteering for diverse audiences and communities. We are looking for applicants who will seek out and create opportunities for new audiences to volunteer with Heritage and Culture Warwickshire in line with our Audience Development ambitions to meet the needs of diverse local communities, as well as maintaining and supporting the existing volunteer base.  The Volunteer Coordinator will need to be able to show initiative and self-direction as well as being able to work in partnership with teams across Heritage and Culture Warwickshire. We are keen to find new ways to engage with volunteers and ensure they are getting what they want to gain from volunteering with Heritage and Culture Warwickshire.

For further information please see Job Description and Person Specification

Additional Information

For information about this role please contact Rebecca Coles

Email: rebeccacoles@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing date:  16^th November 2020

Interview Date: TBC

To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button.
 
Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not be submitted unless asked to do so.

 
If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.
 
You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application demonstrates that they meet the criteria for the post. This means the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk  and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. Would particularly welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from the BAME community, people with a disability and people from the LGBT+ Community.