Volunteer Co-ordinator with Harpenden Child Contact Centre

What will you be doing?

As a result of the forthcoming retirement of the Co-ordinator, HCCC now seeks to recruit his replacement. This is a part-time voluntary position, reporting to the HCCC Trustees, and the successful applicant will work alongside experienced colleagues to manage the operation of the Centre. The key responsibilities are to provide good leadership to the team of volunteers who run the contact sessions, and an effective service for families enabling non-resident parents to have contact with their child(ren) in a safe environment. Other tasks will include meeting prospective families to tell them about the Centre and to be available to see individual family members during contact sessions (or to have telephone discussions between sessions), to seek to improve contact and help families move on. The Co-ordinator will work from home but on occasions will attend contact sessions. Each contact session (on the 2nd and 4th Saturday afternoon of each month) is run by 6-7 volunteers from a pool of 30-35 volunteers. The successful candidate will be committed and supportive of the vision, value and work of HCCC.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will be committed and supportive of the vision, value and work of HCCC. S/he will demonstrate the following qualities:

Professional experience at management level Honesty, integrity and reliability Strong inter-personal skills: able to deal with a wide range of people with sensitivity, fairness, impartiality and confidentiality, showing leadership and engendering confidence Ability to work independently, and to show initiative and flexibility

What difference will you make?

Being involved with the Contact Centre is  immensely rewarding. The Co-ordinator will provide good leadership to the team of volunteers and an effective service for families, enabling non-resident parents to have contact with their child[ren] in a safe environment.