Vacancy: compliance, membership and growth coordinator

This is a permanent, part-time paid role, helping to provide more opportunities for young girls and women across the city to become members.

Please find the job description below. If you’re interested, please email edincounty.lindsey@gmail.com with a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability.

Reporting to our County Commissioner, currently Lindsey Devin, you will be responsible for ensuring that the recruitment of volunteers and young members in Girlguiding Edinburgh is effectively promoted and managed through the GO membership system, while ensuring all necessary compliance checks are completed in line with Girlguiding and Disclosure Scotland policies.

While this role is hybrid, attendance in the office is required one day a week—which can be discussed. Attendance at recruitment fairs and events will also be part of the job.

Location: Home/16 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7AH

Employment hours: 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday (specific days and hours to be agreed). The role requires availability for occasional evening and weekend work.

Salary: £14.70 per hour.

Contract type: Part-time, permanent

• Monitor and maintain the Girlguiding GO membership system to ensure compliance in line with policies:

1. Respond to new enquiries gathering additional information from applicants

2. Liaise with local commissioners to match prospective volunteers to units requiring help (where no commissioner placed, liaise directly with leaders)

3. Follow- up with each new volunteer after first unit visit to assign role and arrange/conduct recruitment checks (PVG and Safer Guiding Safeguarding Training) in timely manner

4. Conduct weekly reviews of Enquires, Disclosures and Safer Guiding training progress to ensure compliance in line with internal and external policies

• Support and help leaders and commissioners using the Join Us/GO system

• Conduct regular review of volunteer needs throughout the City of Edinburgh

• Complete monthly reports on volunteer and enquiry numbers

• Work with Girlguiding Edinburgh’s Executive team as Membership Coordinator, continuously improving volunteer and young member recruitment and retention processes

• Support Lead Volunteers in proactively raising awareness of opportunities to attract new members and volunteers

• Proactively seek new opportunities to recruit volunteers and young members (social media, volunteer platforms, recruitment events)

• Plan and assist in the delivery of welcome sessions for new volunteers

• Provide ad hoc administrative support to the County Team as required (events, training, newsletter, minutes taking etc)