Volunteer Community Officer

The function:

To develop and ship the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) volunteer programme
together with revolutionary and inventive volunteering actions; managing volunteer partnerships and
tasks a part of the onsite discovery programme to have interaction our every day guests.

To help the event and supply of neighborhood partnerships programmes and discover
alternatives for continued improvement of the neighborhood and discovery programmes.

A number of the stuff you’ll do:

• Contribute to and develop, monitor and keep, an RZSS Technique, plan, and insurance policies for
  volunteering
• Lead on the planning, improvement, supply, coordination and analysis of the volunteer
  programmes and sources to attain agreed outcomes together with the NLHF exercise programme.
• Be certain that RZSS are assembly or main greatest apply in volunteering practices.
• Lead all facets of volunteering actions for agreed goal individuals, to agreed
  requirements supporting RZSS’ imaginative and prescient and mission, making certain all actions ship significant
  outcomes.
• Help and take an energetic function within the: improvement and supply of the annual neighborhood
  plan; assembly agreed engagement targets.creation of programmes together with the broader discovery
  programme(s) which promote the RZSS’ useful resource as neighborhood hub to help initiatives to
  strengthen neighborhood.
• Preserve dynamic first-class customer support and public engagement, specializing in delivering
  informative, skilled displays and exceeding viewers expectations.

What we’re on the lookout for:

• Educated to a level stage in a related topic of in depth apply expertise in a
  related area different zoo associated administration methods
• Glorious working data of the Microsoft Suite (Excel and Phrase)
• Substantial expertise and understanding of working with communities together with the
  improvement of neighborhood programmes
• Sensible working data of GDPR rules
• Sound understanding of public engagement greatest practices
• Working data of the pure world, conservation, and science
• Intensive sensible understanding of nonformal studying and engagement greatest practices
• Substantial understanding of the Scottish volunteering processes and insurance policies.

What you’ll get in return:

• Beginning wage between £31,531- £32,413 (provide primarily based on expertise) with future wage
  development as much as £36,250 each year
• 37.5hr working week 
• 34 days annual depart (professional rata)
• Low cost in each retail/catering
• Entry to a healthcare plan
• Employer contributory pension scheme
• You’ll obtain a workers membership which will provide you with (and household/associates) free (and
  discounted) entry to each the Highland Wildlife Park and Edinburgh Zoo in addition to quite a lot of
  different Zoo’s throughout the UK.