35 Hours
Hybrid working - 2 days in the office

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

This is an exciting time to join St John as we embark on our new 10 year strategy and our digital transformation continues. We are seeking a Volunteering Delivery Coordinator to join our team and manage administrative and project support for all St John regional and district leadership teams. This key role helps to facilitate delivery of national, regional and district objectives and provides critical day-to-day support to the regional and district leadership teams. If you’re passionate about service delivery, possess strong customer focus and are keen to utilise your skills to support across a range of functions and projects we’d love to hear from you.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days. 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You:

• Experience of supporting the planning and successful delivery of projects, training and events within a dispersed team
• Experience of effectively managing relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure targets/goals are achieved
• Experience of data analysis to report on performance, capture learnings and enable future planning
• Strong written communication skills with experience of producing a range of documentation including guidance and reports

About The Role:

• Co-ordinate and manage administrative and project support to regional and district leadership teams to ensure delivery of objectives and advising external contacts in relation to implementation and best practice
• Organise, book and manage travel for large scale events in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Manage People Recognition system to ensure timely and consistent recognition is delivered to people within Regional and District Networks
• Own agreed processes within the area of Volunteering Delivery to evolve processes ensuring a culture of continuous improvement for our stakeholders
• Manage data extraction and analytics to measure district performance. Ensuring lessons learned are recorded and actions are taken to embed changes into future planning

About Us:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.            

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.