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Closing date: Wednesday 13 August 2025
Location: Oxford, with travel across Oxfordshire
Hours: 35h per week, part-time options available
Salary: £27,000 a year
Contract: Permanent (6-month probationary period)
Interview date: 28th August

Volunteers are the backbone of our communities, without our volunteers we could not do what we do. We’re looking for someone to join our team to provide support, training, and recruitment of volunteers to ensure our services run smoothly and effectively for blind and partially sighted people. You will love working with people and matching people and have a drive to see people thrive both in their volunteering roles and the support they receive from MyVision.

Job Purpose: To recruit, train and support our volunteers. Ensuring our recruitment processes and policies are to a high standard and accessible to all.

Duties:  

Volunteer recruitment, training and support

• Recruit volunteers across all areas of the organisation including service delivery, fundraising and administration
• Create and list volunteer job descriptions for all current opportunities
• Ensure good administration processes are in place
• Provide induction training, ongoing training opportunities and development for volunteers
• Host thank you events and activities and provide ongoing support and contact for volunteer

Policies and Procedures

• Ensure all volunteering policies and procedures are kept up-to-date
• Provide risk assessments where applicable
• Develop and maintain an organisation wide volunteer handbook
• Administer the organisation policies and procedures and support the wider staff team and volunteers to access them
• Provide organisation wide recruitment support for all opportunities including; volunteers, staff and trustees

Recording

• Ensure volunteer data is kept up-to-date
• Record all relevant interactions with volunteers on our CRM
• Provide reports for various staff members on volunteering numbers and hours

Other duties:

• Attend and contribute to team meetings
• Attend relevant training and networking events
• Be an ambassador for MyVision and help us to reach out, grow and continue to support visually impaired people across Oxfordshire
• Other reasonable duties set out by your line manager and Chief Executive
• There may, on occasion, be a need to work outside normal hours e.g., weekends and evenings

Person Specification

NOTE: We expect candidates to evidence how they meet the criteria in their covering letter. This can be through work, volunteering, and your personal life.

Essential skills, experience, and knowledge:

1. Experience of coordinating and managing volunteers

2. Knowledge of the charity sector

3. Ability to provide group training

4. Strong digital skills including Office 365

5. Strong administration and organisational skills

Desirable:

1. Lived experience of visual impairment or other disabilities

2. Experience of working within a disability charity, local or national

Personal Qualities

1. The ability to work under own initiative

2. Good communicator

3. Creative thinker and problem solving

4. A supportive team player

This role requires a strong level of organisation, you will be managing and juggling a case load of volunteers. But the end results will be highly rewarding as you match volunteers with great opportunities and see the direct impact this has on ensuring blind and partially sighted people can live independent and active lives. You will be playing a key part in ensuring our services run smoothy and enabling us to increase our capacity through volunteering.

Safeguarding 

MyVision is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. You can find our safeguarding policy here – Safeguarding Policy. This role is subject to a DBS check and two references.

Equal Opportunities and Disability

MyVision is an equal opportunities employer and Disability Confident Leader. If you have any concerns about the role or the application process that may relate to your disability or health condition, please do contact us. We are also a Youth Friendly Employer and signed up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment. MyVision has a strong commitment to employing staff and volunteers with lived experience of sight loss, you can find out more here: MyVision Oxfordshire Commitment to Lived Experience.

Access to Work 

Support can be provided through Access to Work if you have a disability or long-term health condition. This can be equipment, travel to work, or travel within work. You can find out more about Access to Work here: Access to Work.

How to apply

Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV, including two references and a covering letter evidencing how your skills and experiences meet the persons specifications and job role. You may use evidence from work, volunteering, and your personal life. Please use no more than 500 words. You can send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@MyVision.org.uk. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.