Role: Senior Volunteer Officer 

‍Salary: £25,016 0.8 FTE (equivalent to £31,270 FTE) 

Contract: 2-year fixed term contract from January 2025 until 31 December 2026

Hours: 32 hours per week (including regular evenings and weekends) inclusive of 1 hour lunch (0.8 FTE). This role will work across all 7 days and we expect one of your working days will be a weekend day of your choice. For example the work pattern might be Wednesday to Saturday or Sunday to Wednesday.

Location: Hybrid. Crystal Palace Park, Ledrington Road London, SE19 2BB

Responsible for: This role is responsible for developing opportunities for community volunteering, creating sandwich placement, internship and work experience opportunities at Crystal Palace Park.

Line Managed By: Senior Community Programmes Manager

Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory holidays, increases by a day each year completed, up to 30 days. Employer Pension Contribution 5%. Employee Assistance Programme. Flexible working by agreement within the role requirements

About the role

The Senior Volunteer officer will work to involve the local community in enhancing and taking care of the park and will support all areas of the Trust’s work, including visitor experience, gardening and supporting the delivery of the Trust’s growing public programme of seasonal, community-focused activities and events. You will work as part of the project team that includes a new Senior Community Engagement Officer. The postholder will also create opportunities for paid sandwich placements, internships and work placements.

The role is offered on a two year fixed term contract with Crystal Palace Park Trust. Any extension after 31 December 2026 is subject to funding. 

This role is funded by the Lottery Fund as part of the partnership project between Crystal Palace Park Trust and London Borough of Bromley. 

‍About Crystal Palace Park Trust

The role offers the opportunity to join a young and growing charity at an exciting point in its evolution, and to help lead on establishing Crystal Palace Park as an exemplar in urban park management, community-led regeneration and culture and heritage programming.  

This appointment comes at a pivotal moment: after 25 years of community campaigning, Crystal Palace Park Trust took over custodianship of this unique landscape, on 15 September 2023, via a 125 year lease from the London Borough of Bromley.

We are now working closely with the London Borough of Bromley and a wide variety of other park and community stakeholders to deliver our mission: to protect, manage and improve Crystal Palace Park as a green, historic, ecological, recreational, sporting, cultural and educational resource in the interests of park users and of the wider community.

The Trust’s team will soon consist of 14 staff members organised into three departments: CEO & Corporate functions (Finance, fundraising, communications, HR & office management), events & programming and park management. 

You can read more about the park, the Trust and its work for the park’s community, its heritage, and ecology at:  www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org and in the Trust’s strategy, ‘Connections’.

How to apply

For more information on how to apply, please download the application pack here. Please submit the required documents to jobs@crystalpalaceparktrust.org with the subject: ‘Role: Senior Volunteer Officer’.

Applications must be received by 10:00 on Monday 28 October 2024

First-round interviews will be held on 13 and 14 November 2024. All applicants must submit an Equal Opportunities Form

Crystal Palace Park Trust is an equal opportunities employer. We believe that our staff should represent the communities, organisations, and individuals that we work with and support. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or nationality.

We thank all applicants for their interest.