Job Details:
Local Coordinator: Family Volunteering Club

Job Description

Come and lead a new and exciting local programme for families!

Family Volunteering Club (FVC) is looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate person to become the Local Coordinator for a pilot programme in Manchester in 2025.

Terms:

• Dates: April - September 2025 (6 months)
• Freelance, fixed-term contract (with potential to extend, subject to funding)
• Part-time, 20 hours a month
• Total project fee: £2,380 (see breakdown below)
• Flexible hours - planning can be fitted around other work and any caring responsibilities
• You must have availability to run eight 90min pilot sessions between June - August 2025, which may take place weekends, weekdays or during school holidays
• The role is subject to two professional references and a DBS check

About

Family Volunteering Club is on a mission to make it really easy for kids aged 0 - 9 and their grown ups to help out at important causes on their doorstep. We want to help create a society in which every child grows up feeling connected to their local community, and understands the positive role they can play in helping change issues that matter to them. We work with different charities and community groups to create programmes of fun, impactful, tailor-made volunteering sessions, specifically for kids and their families! Currently running in south London, Stevenage, Fenland and Abergavenny, we are on a journey to create locally run Family Volunteering Clubs in towns, cities and villages all across the UK, and work with hundreds of families each week.

The role

In 2025 we are excited to share that we will be running a pilot programme of 8 sessions in Manchester - specifically in and around Longsight. This pilot programme will enable us to test the idea, understand the local interest and get feedback. Once the pilot is complete, we hope to secure further funding to enable the programme to continue and grow.

We are looking for a Local Coordinator to take on the planning and delivery of this pilot programme. The Local Coordinator will be responsible for the following:

• Leading a local consultation with families - contacting local community partners, any parent groups and using existing family networks to send online questionnaires to families to help design the programme.
• Identifying 3 - 4 local charities and community groups to participate in the pilot programme, working with our criteria and in response to community feedback.
• Having meetings with the charities to tell them about FVC and help plan the pilot sessions in accordance with the FVC planning documents. Prepare session confirmation forms.
• Helping to promote the sessions locally to get families along, putting up posters locally, creating social media content, inviting family groups along and general marketing tasks.
• Supporting any access requirements that families may have.
• Do any necessary admin for planning the sessions to ensure they will be fun, high quality and impactful.
• Co-facilitating sessions on the day and helping the host charity run them, leading the story and song time at the beginning and end of the session, arranging photo permission forms and capturing feedback.
• Sharing evaluation, pictures and feedback after the sessions. Wrap up admin.

• Attending meetings on zoom (1hr every 3 months) with Local Coordinators from other regions.

  The role will be approximately 20 hours per month, which can be completed flexibly around other work and personal commitments, however there will be the need for some of the work to take place during ‘business hours’ for meetings with local community partners.

Fee breakdown and time commitment:

• Planning time: 20hrs per month over 6 months, £15ph = £1,800
• Session delivery: £50 per session (8 sessions) = £400

• In person training time (option of a short day trip to London to see the work in action): £180

  Total contract fee = £2,380

  Local Coordinators will be:

• Really passionate about the mission of FVC, and what we are trying to achieve.
• A confident communicator (in person, by phone and email) in planning the sessions with the charities and local groups.
• A great projects / events organiser.
• Happy to engage families and kids during the sessions, and run a short game or lead a song.

• Able to engage with local community networks to help promote the sessions and bring families along.

  FVC is committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views to reflect the diverse communities that we work with. If you like what we’re doing, we’d love to hear from you.

  How to apply:

  Please send your CV and a covering letter (no more than 1 A4 page) with information about yourself, your relevant experience and why you'd like to be part of the project to: [email protected]

  Deadline for applications: 12noon on Wednesday 26 February. Interviews will be ideally held on Monday 3rd March (online via Zoom) however if you are unable to meet on that day, we will find another time that week, which suits your schedule.

  If you want to have a chat about the opportunity in advance, please get in touch with Maddy via the same email above.

  We hope this will be a wonderful experience, with the opportunity to create a fun and positive programme for local families to enjoy. We very much hope to hear from you!

This role is flexible hours, creating a fun community programme for local families.