Contract: Permanent, 7.5 hours per week

Salary: £4,995 - £5,528 (£24,976 - £27,643 FTE)

Location: Sheffield S7 2PY

Closing date: Thursday 26th November 2026

Interview date: 2nd and 4th December 2026

We’re recruiting a Volunteer Coordinator for our Rehoming & Fostering Team in Sheffield!

As Volunteer Coordinator, you’ll recruit, support, and inspire volunteers to enhance rehoming and fostering services, while promoting Blue Cross in the community and driving local volunteering initiatives. You’ll be joining a team who strive to be the best versions of themselves, so that they can do the best for the pets who need our help.

Responsibilities

Our Sheffield rehoming, advice & behaviour unit is in South Yorkshire which is just a short drive from the beautiful peak district. Our team are proactively helping the local community in many ways such as helping people and pets in need with our food bank as well as offering rehoming services for a wide range of pets. We don’t have cattery or kennel facilities so we need to be innovative as a team to ensure we can help with the most urgent of cases.

The Volunteer Coordinator will recruit and support our amazing volunteers in the local area, promote the benefits of volunteering and raise the awareness of our centre and Blue Cross.

As a Volunteer Coordinator you will be responsible for recruiting and supporting a diverse team of volunteers across practical and administrative roles. Working closely with the Centre Manager and Assistant Managers, you will ensure that our volunteers are fully integrated into the team, ensuring that the team welcome and collaborate with these wonderful people. Volunteers make such a tremendous difference to what we can achieve in Sheffield and we truly appreciate the part they play in the number of pets we are able to help.

In addition to this, you will be building relationships with local communities and partners, promoting the benefits of volunteering to provide more targeted support.

This is a part-time role working 7.5 hours each Monday.

This position can be combined with our current Reception & Administration vacancy, which is 30 hours per week, to create a 37.5 hour per week schedule. Please apply for both roles if you are interested in this.

If you excel in an environment where you can see the difference you make every day, then this is the role for you. Interested? Then apply and let’s work together to see if this is the role for you.

Skills

You will be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to actively promote to a range of external stakeholders the work of Blue Cross and the benefits of volunteering. You will be a self-motivated individual with a focused, creative, and forward-thinking approach to volunteering and will enjoy the opportunity to be involved in a range of local volunteering events and national initiatives.

With the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with people at all levels, you will have a passion for ensuring that volunteers have the right opportunities to thrive in their roles.

You will be organised, flexible and analytical in the way you work, and you will enjoy working to targets and managing a diverse team of volunteers. With an approachable and supportive manner, you will be able to offer guidance and advice and will have the confidence to deal with volunteer situations should they arise and be able to offer pragmatic solutions.

You will know what it is like to work in an emotionally charged environment and have excellent ‘bounce back ability’ and resilience. In addition, you will be emotionally intelligent, showing empathy and knowing how to support volunteers and your colleagues.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

Demonstrable experience of supervision or management of volunteers or colleagues.
Working with and relationship building with a range of stakeholders.
High standards of verbal and written communication.
Previous experience in working in a client focused environment where delivering a high level of customer satisfaction is the norm.
Strong organisational, administration and analytical skills, including use of computerised systems.
An awareness of health and safety legislation.
Current full driving licence.
Ability to demonstrate, understanding and apply our Blue Cross values

It would also be great (but not essential) if you had:

Qualifications in managing volunteers or similar.
Training or coaching skills.
Presentation skills.
Working with animals, and knowledge of animal welfare.
Organising events.
Understanding of safeguarding issues.

Using AI in your application

We’re happy for you to use AI tools to help you prepare your application, for example to organise your thoughts, improve clarity or check spelling and grammar. However, your application must be an honest reflection of your own skills, experience and achievements, and AI should not be used to write your application for you or create examples that aren’t your own.

Please read our guidance on using AI when applying to Blue Cross before submitting your application.

How to apply

Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Benefits

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.

Our generous benefits package includes:

Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
Health cash plan
Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
Life assurance
20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
Enhanced family friendly policies
Recognition scheme
Annual volunteer days
Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.