Corporate Volunteering Manager (Maternity Cover)

Salary: £42,000 – 44,000 FTE per annum, pro rata 20 hours per week, worked across 4 or 5 days
Contract length: Maternity cover up to 12 months
Location: Thames21’s main office at the Guildhall, City of London; but we also offer hybrid working (1 day a week)
Responsible to: Head of Fundraising

About Thames21

Thames21 is an environmental charity putting healthy rivers at the heart of community life. Through environmental improvements, community engagement, education and advocacy we bring about effective and lasting change by working hand-in-hand with communities to deliver tangible and measurable improvements to our network of rivers.

Diversity at Thames21

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Thames21 is key to our success and as such we employ staff from a diverse range of backgrounds, this we feel is key in ensuring that everybody has an equal opportunity and is not treated differently or discriminated against because of their characteristics. We value the voices of our individual employees, and we strive to work in a collaborative, innovative balanced way. The postholder must actively support this.

Purpose of the job: The purpose of this role is to deliver a significant unrestricted income stream through corporate volunteering activities, while ensuring an excellent experience for participants and corporate partners.

What will you be doing?

• Oversee the delivery of around 100 river clean-up and restoration volunteering activities each year for corporate volunteering groups, ensuring events are well planned, safe and professionally delivered.
• Work closely with the Corporate Partnerships Manager and Corporate Volunteering Officer to match high-quality volunteering opportunities with corporate partners.
• Manage budgets, forecasting and income targets to ensure the programme delivers a strong financial return for the charity.

Main duties and responsibilities

People Management and Operational Oversight

• Oversee and plan circa 100 river clean-up and restoration volunteering activities for corporate groups on the Thames and tributaries per year.
• Manage the Corporate Volunteering team to ensure effective scheduling of volunteering activities, including staffing cover, identification of sites, pre-event site visits and risk assessments, equipment preparation, van loading and unloading, set-up and break-down, and post-event equipment cleaning, sorting and maintenance.
• Lead all client communication with regards to corporate team day bookings and event follow up process.
• Manage a delivery team of 2 staff members and 1-2 freelance event leaders and liaise with a small pool of Event Support Contractors. Ensure appropriate staffing levels for holiday, sickness and crisis cover.
• Work with Corporate Volunteering Officer (CVO), Corporate Volunteering Events Leader (CVEL) and other colleagues to identify suitable sites and activities, to match with client needs (group size, location, activity)
• Ensure all activities are run with high standards of health and safety, complying with Thames21’s H&S procedures and reporting, with effective risk assessments for each event, ensuring information is up to date and accurate; attend Thames21 H&S meetings.
• Oversee CVO and CVEL to liaise with river landowners and stakeholders e.g. Port of London Authority, local authorities and others on permissions and waste clearance;
• Oversee logistics of equipment and vans for the corporate volunteering function, monitor and ensure maintenance of equipment and vans to ensure smooth operations.

Working with Corporates

• Manage and oversee bookings for corporate volunteering events, bookings, T&Cs, invoicing, and pre- and post-event communications, ensuring high quality, prompt and efficient service. Ensure postponements and cancellations are based on Thames21’s T&Cs.
• Identify and promote additional fundraising and engagement opportunities to corporate volunteering clients, contributing towards agreed income targets.

Working with Colleagues

• Manage the corporate volunteering budget, ensuring the programme delivers a strong net contribution to support the charity’s work and achieves agreed income targets. Identify opportunities for sustainable growth in income and impact.
• Ensure close liaison with the Corporate Partnerships Manager to identify prospective corporate partners from the corporate volunteering client base;
• Oversee and design targeted messaging and promotions via Thames21 website, bespoke e-newsletter to corporate volunteering clients, social media, working with the Communications Manager.

Management, Administration and Finance

• Forecast revenue and expenditure for corporate volunteering budget line, keeping track of revenue and all expenditure to maximise contribution to the charity, record and code accurately
• Prepare partnership proposals and annual impact reports for corporate volunteering partners;

Other duties

This job description cannot cover every issue or task that may arise within Thames21. At various times the post-holder will be directed to carry out other reasonable duties in support of other Thames21 activities that are consistent with those in this Job Description.

The closing date for applications is: midday, Thursday 10th December.

Interview dates: Week commencing 14th December, subject to change. Interviews will be in person at Walbrook Wharf, 79-83 Upper Thames Street, EC4R 3TD.

We appreciate the time you will have taken to apply to this role, and we do appreciate that it is disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a role you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable respond to or give feedback on individual applications, but we do want to be able manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.