Volunteer Support Officer

Main Responsibilities

We have a strategic commitment to growing the engagement and support of volunteers across all parts of the organisation.

A key objective for the overall Volunteer Development Team is to support, develop and grow our network of volunteer led local groups and communities. Local groups form a part of Diabetes UK, but have their own names, are financially self-sustaining, and are all run locally by a committee of volunteers, community groups generally have one lead volunteer and may require additional support from the national or regional volunteer team.   

Other key volunteer roles that are supported locally will include those that are engaged in running awareness events, undertaking speaking engagements, risk assessments, campaigning and on occasion fundraising.

The ideal candidate

• Effective project management skills with and ability to work on own initiative and lead on well-defined work areas.
• Effective time management skills with an ability to juggle conflicting workloads.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• be able to demonstrate good IT skills, including experience of email, Word, and databases, 
• Good team working skills.
• A valid driving licence and access to a car