Start Date: ASAP
Hours: 16/week
Duration: 6 months
Location: Remote Working (must be based within the GMT to GMT+3 time zones)
Remuneration: This is a voluntary role. There is no financial compensation associated with this role.
Benefits
- Being part of a wonderful team and helping amazing grassroots organisations find volunteers.
- Mentoring support & training related to the role and your development interests.
- Flexible working hours.
- This role can be accounted as an official internship.
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Purpose
We are looking for a part-time External Partnership Coordinator at Indigo Volunteers. You will play a pivotal role in fostering and managing external partnerships that contribute to growing Indigo’s impact and further the support offered to our charity partners. You will be primarily involved in exploring, forming, and nurturing partnerships that bring in training and wellbeing support opportunities for Indigo’s volunteers and charity partners.
This is an exciting opportunity to really help us grow our network and bring important skills and support into the charity sector.
Responsibilities
1. Training Opportunities Exploration, Set Up, and Coordination:
- Coordinate Indigo’s collaboration with The Pandora Project.
- Conduct research to identify new training opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Volunteer Coordinator to identify training needs.
- Maintain relationships with training providers to ensure ongoing support for volunteers.
- Plan and implement training promotion.
- Facilitate administrative tasks around training set up and registrations.
- Collect impact data.
2. Wellbeing Network Growth & Coordination:
- Coordinate Indigo’s wellbeing network.
- Establish and nurture new relationships with mental health and wellbeing professionals.
- Collect impact data.
Skills & Experience
- Previous experience in partnership development or a related field.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent organisational and project management abilities.
- Proficient in administrative tasks, including document drafting and record-keeping.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote setting.
- Alignment with the mission and values of Indigo Volunteers.
- Interest in working remotely, managing your own time and multitasking.
- Previous experience and/or demonstrated interest in the refugees and migrants sector, knowledge of the responsible volunteering concept is welcomed.
At Indigo Volunteers we see our differences as our strength.
We are committed to cultivating an equal and fair working environment free from discrimination on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion or age. We believe in promoting a sense of belonging, where our people are heard and valued and diversity of experience and perspective is celebrated.
About Indigo
Indigo Volunteers is a charity that recruits volunteers, supports grassroots organisations, and creates networks along the European refugee route. We believe in the power of ordinary people, and enable them to work together to support refugees and displaced people. We work within a community of remarkable grassroots charities, volunteers, sector experts, and humanitarian organisations that are positively dedicated to supporting communities coping with displacement, inequality, and social injustice. Have a read about us on our website.
OUR VALUES
- Human-centred. We put relationships, lasting collaborations and human wellbeing at the centre of everything we do.
- Humility. We acknowledge that we do not have all the answers; we welcome feedback and strive to continuously learn.
- Accountability. We follow through on our commitments; we are honest and transparent.
How to apply
To apply, please fill in this application form by November 1st.
