Volunteer and Business Support Manager – South West Area

Location:

Bristol (BS98) – Avon, South West, United Kingdom

Salary:

Up to £41300 per annum

Type:

Contract

Start Date:

ASAP

Contract Period:

12- month FTC.

Main Industry:

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Other Industries & Skills:

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Advertiser:

Bluetown

Job ID:

131694232

Posted On:

17 March 2025

Job Title: Volunteer and Business Support Manager – South West Area

Location: HMS Flying Fox, Winterstoke Road, Bristol, B23 2NS

Salary: GBP41,300 gross per annum

Job type: Full time, 12- month FTC.

Closing Date: 31st March 2025.

Interviews:9th April 2025.

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Volunteer and Business Support Manager for the Southwest Area to join our team.

About the role:

The Volunteer & Business Support Manager (VBSM) is a full-time employee of MSSC, and is a member of the Area Officer’s (AO) staff. The VBSM will work in close liaison with the NSC Business Management Team and will be functionally accountable to the Assistant Director of Business Support (ADBS) for business, volunteering & growth-related matters.

The role will undertake evening & weekend working as required to fulfil the requirements of the role and will be required to travel to other MSSC, Sea Cadet Corps (SCC) (and other organisation’s facilities), especially within the designated Area of the MSSC, but also to its London National Support Centre.

Due to the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the post holder will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

Purpose of the Role:

All cadets, instructional and uniformed volunteers join the national Sea Cadet organisation, with the local charity operated by a Unit Management Team (UMT who are the local trustees). The Area team supports the Sea Cadet units that fall within that geographic area.

This post will play a key role in the delivery of effective support for volunteers (both uniformed and non-uniformed volunteers), the growth of Sea Cadets and good business practice in support of MSSC’s objectives under its Vision and Strategy.

The key elements are to:

a) Support volunteers and units by overseeing all aspects of business management and governance across Sea Cadet units (whom are independent charities) in the Area including the development of capacity and capability of their units through advice or signposting (where appropriate) on business, volunteering, growth, compliance, finance, fundraising & promotion, health & safety, recruitment, and property issues.

b) Support the AO through:

– Contributing to the development and monitoring of the Area business plan.

– Overseeing the Area budget.

– Compliance monitoring and management of business risk.

– Identifying growth opportunities.

c) Line manage Volunteer Support Officer/s (VSO) and liaise directly with their functional manager in relation to their allocated workload.

Requirements:

* Experience of delivering business advice and contributing to business, growth and development plans.
* Experience of case, complaints and investigation management.
* Communication and interpersonal skills (written and spoken) with the ability to present information in a manner appropriate to the audience, including delivering presentations to large audiences.
* Building partnerships – Good influencing skills and an ability to foster and maintain successful working relationships with colleagues and contacts.
* Self-servicing – ability to self-service and work unsupervised, organising own workload, meeting deadlines and taking the initiative, whilst working as part of a team.

Benefits:

* 25 days annual leave per annum increasing with length of service
* Hybrid working for many roles
* Life assurance (4x salary)
* Private medical insurance
* Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
* Employee development: We are investing in our employees’ development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Volunteer Coordinator, Volunteer Manager, Support Manager, Business Support Specialist, will also be considered for this role.

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