The Role
Post: Fire Cadets Volunteer Coordinator
Grade: FRS C
Starting salary: £29,244 per annum
Salary range for the FRS C grade: £29,244 - £35,107 per annum
Status: Fixed-term contract until 01/04/2021
Closing date: Tuesday 14 May 2019 at 16:00 GMT
Fire Cadets is a national organisation for young people aged 11-17 delivered by London Fire Brigade at local fire stations across London, and is one of London’s newest unformed youth organisations that is expanding fast. It aims to provide young people with a sense of purpose and belonging, great life experiences, self confidence, effective presentation and communication skills, teamwork opportunities, progression paths, and nationally recognised qualifications.
Recent funding from the Mayor of London is enabling a large increase in the number of Fire Cadets units to open one in every London Borough by April 2020. To do this, we need adult volunteers – lots of them!
As a Fire Cadets Volunteer Coordinator (FCVC) you will be employed in a supervisory management role and will be responsible for promoting volunteering opportunities and recruiting adult volunteers to support the delivery of Fire Cadets units across London.
Successful candidates will need to be articulate and confident team players who are also self motivated, enthusiastic, and innovative. They must have proven experience in recruiting, supervising and developing adult volunteers. Most importantly they will need to demonstrate a commitment to ensuring consideration of diversity and inclusion runs through everything they do.
This is very much a coordinating role however there may be some evening and weekend working. Although you will work a 35-hour week and primarily be based at London Fire Brigade Headquarters, there will be a requirement for you to organise and attend volunteer related events across London, deliver training on planned weekends, and visit Fire Cadets units one evening a week to meet with and develop volunteers. The ability to work flexibly and travel is essential.
With experience of working within the public, community or voluntary sector in a similar role, you will also possess high levels of written and oral communication skills. FCVCs will be required to build professional relationships with internal staff and external partners, generate funding, deliver training, organise and participate in events, work as a team, and help to develop and raise awareness of the LFB Fire Cadets brand.
This is an busy and rewarding role in an exciting time for LFB Fire Cadets – are you ready for it?
Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the attached job description. For further information about Fire Cadets please visit:
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/FireCadets.asp
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications will not be accepted.
Eligibility
We are keen to hear from anyone with the ability to do this job to help us achieve a workforce as diverse as the communities that we serve.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Assessment Overview
As part of the online application form, candidates must provide evidence to address the following criteria:
Selection Criteria 1 - Experience of working with young people and/or community and voluntary sectors.
Selection Criteria 2 - Experience of staff management and development, monitoring and measuring staff output and training and motivation in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Selection Criteria 3 - A good level of written, oral and presentation communication skills in order to liaise and interact effectively with staff at all levels members of the public and representatives of external organisations, and to prepare correspondence and reports.
Selection Criteria 4 - Ability to support and develop people to achieve personal and organisational objectives.
Assessment for this role is due to place early/mid-June 2019. Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment date, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements.
Additional Information
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications will not be accepted.
In line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed for the successful person, which will include an enhanced criminal records check. The successful person will be required to declare any convictions for offences which are not spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a basic disclosure will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
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