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Two positions available: Volunteers Officer (International) and Volunteers Officer (Warwickgrad)

The University of Warwick is looking for two talented Volunteers Officers to join their growing Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) department.

As Volunteers Officer (International), you will develop a coordinated approach to grow and diversify our global volunteering programme, with the potential for some international travel. You will champion our international ambassadors programme, supporting groups and networks through 121 relationships and large-scale engagement.

As Volunteers Officer (Warwickgrad), you will grow our virtual community platform as a valuable tool for our alumni and supporter community and our team. This will include developing and fostering groups shaped around personal and professional development (across sectors, careers and demography).

Warwick is firmly established within the top ten of all UK university rankings and is #64 in the QS Global World Rankings 2023. We’re rightly proud of our diverse alumni and supporter community, who are both our largest stakeholder group, and the most far-reaching expression of our global reputation.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

These new roles would suit dynamic and experienced volunteer, donor relations or alumni engagement professionals, who are ready to shape volunteer programmes that channel the energies and passions of our vibrant global community in support of the University’s strategy.

These roles will each play a pivotal role within a programme that generates engagement, supports long-term relationships and motivates volunteers, so experience of purposefully-driven engagement on a global scale will be key. You will bring experience in relationship management, programme development, communications and/or events, and skills you’ve grown through roles in alumni/stakeholder engagement, business development, community partnerships, or membership organisations.

You’ll understand how to work with colleagues in our faculties and key departments to grow alumni and supporter networks, and be comfortable liaising with and influencing a range of stakeholders including senior leaders.

You’ll be part of a new Volunteers team, led by our Volunteers Manager and growing in time to include four officers. And you will thrive on demonstrating our team behaviours every day:

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: We are ambitious to make a difference

COLLABORATION: We collaborate to achieve together

SOLUTION FOCUSSED: We are accountable for creating solutions

PASSION FOR LEARNING: We learn from our best performances

The Alumni and Supporter Engagement team at Warwick is passionate about making a real difference at one of the UK’s most successful young universities. We’re a friendly, supportive team growing at pace to play a key role in Warwick’s future. Find out more about our team, our culture and our ambitious plans here.

Although based at the University, a balance of home and office working is available. DAE recognises the importance of a healthy work/life balance, and welcomes discussions about variations to working pattern and arrangements.

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

• QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

For informal enquiries, please contact Rebecca Kilcullen, Head of Alumni and Supporter Engagement via [email protected].

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date of 5 October 2023. Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history. Your cover letter should detail how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for this post.

The interviews will be held on 17 October 2023.

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

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