Volunteer & Learning Coordinator

Introduction

37.5 Hours per week

£31,000 

Permanent

“The support that I get from Rowcroft has been excellent! When I go on events and meet fellow volunteers and see all the contributions they make, it’s clear that everybody plays an important part.”

Make your work count! 

Are you friendly, welcoming, customer focused, super organised, and confident using Microsoft applications and databases?  If so, you could be our new Volunteer and Learning Coordinator.

What you’ll be doing

This is a busy, hands-on, site-based role with lots of variety, where good organisation and prioritisation and the ability to work alongside colleagues really matters. In an average week you could be:

• Supporting managers to recruit and onboard volunteers
• Administering and maintaining the learning database 
• Supporting colleagues with systems and tech 
• Drafting the volunteer newsletter
• Setting up a training room and welcoming the trainer 
• Speaking with a volunteer about a potential new role
• Hosting a volunteer event
• Producing reports

What you will need

To be successful in this role you will need to be a black belt in time management, able to build sustainable processes and systems to enable you to keep abreast of your responsibilities and overall be engaging, welcoming and customer focused while juggling multiple responsibilities.  

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be driven by our cause and enjoy working in a fast paced environment with a supportive, hard‑working team, while also enjoying the autonomy and ownership that comes with being fully accountable for your own areas of work.

We work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming.  It can be tough. We don’t shy away from that. But you’ll see clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable. 

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year.  Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. 

Take a look here to find out what our team says about working at Rowcroft and the employee benefits on offer.

For more Information

Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Claire.booth@rowcrofthospice.org.uk.  

Applications will be shortlisted as and when received so please apply early.

Interview date 9th April 2026.