Membership Coordinator

Membership Coordinator

Ongoing role
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At a glance

Skills

  • Strategic development and planning
  • Change management
  • General / operations management
  • Project / programme management
  • Volunteer management

Where

St Albans, AL1 4RL
Remote opportunity

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week

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Welcome to Reach Volunteering. We are a community and registered charity that connects people, skills and good causes.

To apply for this role, and any other on our platform, you need to be based in the UK, have at least three years of experience using the skills you wish to volunteer in a professional capacity or have lived experience (for trustee roles). Read more about our criteria.

We are a member led national organisation, looking for a membership coordinator to support our efforts to engage our members and improve our democratic processes to ensure they are involved in key decisions.

What will you be doing?

Students4Students is a member led national organisation which has c.100 members split across 4 branches. As a CIO it has a duty to engage with members and provide members the opportunity to elect trustees and hold the leadership to account for decisions at an AGM. Students4Students wants to improve the level of participation in our internal democracy and ensure that AGMs are appealing and relevant to all members.

We also want to increase engagement with its members, all year round, outside of the AGM. Students4Students is looking to build new channels of engaging with members, including developing an alumni programme for our volunteers who have graduated from our core programmes.

Responsibilities and duties

The post-holder will be responsible for engaging members in Students4Students internal democracy and ensuring the organisation meets its responsibilities as a CIO

  • Organising the AGM
  • Improving engagement in Students4Students internal democracy
  • Improving engagement with the organisation’s members
  • Improving dialogue between Trustees and members
  • Promoting members interests within the organisation
  • Owning and managing the processes for how S4S interacts with existing members of our alumni network
  • Working with our community and events lead to create engaging events for alumni and current members.
  • Design and execute a multi-year alumni network strategy.
  • Overall, owning and overseeing communication between and to our members, ensuring their rights are upheld and they are kept informed and engaged with S4S operations

What are we looking for?

We are idealy looking for somebody with experience of member led organisations and and understanding of the processes associated with them. 

We are looking for somebody with experience and skills in people and project management, who are keen to get involved in desgning and implementing new programmes, and supporting organisation-wide communications.

Key requirements

i. Experience managing key relationships and stakeholders

ii. Experience with comms

iii. Experience running events

Optional requirements

i. Experience working in a non-profit setting

ii. Experience working in an educational setting

iii. Experience working with student volunteers (Preferred but not essential)

What difference will you make?

You will provide direct support to our student volunteer members, by improving their engagement with wider S4S operations, improving our democratic processes, and creating an alumni network to support volunteers in their future careers. 

Causes
  • Education
  • Young people
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    Students4Students deliver free, one-to-one tuition in English and Maths to primary school pupils in Bristol who are at risk of falling behind. Your support means we can train more volunteer tutors...