Volunteer Events Coordinator

Volunteer Events Coordinator

Ongoing role
J101517
At a glance

Skills

  • Event management
  • Fundraising events

Where

Basildon, SS14 1HA
Mainly at the office
Travel limit? 10 miles

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week
This is a long-term position.

Deadline

31 Mar 2025

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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 looking for someone to coordinate our participation in local events, look after our physical equipment, our information leaflets and freebies.

What will you be doing?

Key Aims

  • To be the ‘go to’ person for coordinating our participation in events
  • Ensure that we know where our physical events equipment is, and that it is in good condition 
  • Draw up a list of all our information leaflets and maximum and minimum quantities of each
  • Reorder information leaflets as and when needed
  • Ensure that a minimum quantity of ‘freebies’ (pens, stress balls) are always available

 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Work with the CEO and the Lead Fundraiser to understand which events we will attend
  • Work with Department Manages to understand and communicate which staff and volunteers will attend each event, including identifying a ‘Lead Attender” for each event
  • Work with the Lead Attender and agree which physical equipment, information leaflets and freebies will be taken to each event
  • Working with the General Manager, request reordering of information leaflets and freebies

What are we looking for?

To be successful you will have had experience of events management / fundraising events, working with a range of people, ideally including volunteers. Strong communication skills are required to engage effectively with a wide range of people (volunteers, Managers, Trustees, etc.) verbally and in writing.

You need to be able to work independently and manage own workload and also work as part of a team.

What difference will you make?

Our presence at external events is critical as it portrays our charity to the general public and it provides an opportunity for us to help as many local people as possible with their mental health.

Therefore, ensuring that we have sufficient volunteers, the correct physical equipment and the appropriate range and number of information leaflets is critical to ensure success.

As a volunteer who spends quality time focussing on these tasks, you will help ensure we project our best external-facing image and help as many local people as possible.

Before you apply

Causes
  • Campaigning
  • Children / families
  • Counselling / advice
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Local / community
  • Mental health
  • Young people
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

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    Basildon Mind is a registered charity, providing high quality counselling, supported housing, wellbeing (allotment, walking groups), forensic advocacy...