Corporate Volunteering Events Leader

Salary: £28,500 – £30,500 (FTE) 4 or 5 days
Contract length: 0.8/1.0 FTE for 12 months (with possibility to extend)
Location: Working on-site at outdoor locations around London, at Thames21
offices at Guildhall and Bow, and at Thames21 offices and/or stores at Bow, Brent and
Greenwich, and occasional working from home.
Report to: Head of Fundraising
Liaison with: Corporate Volunteering Officer, Thames Programmes Manager,
Thames21 Event Support Staff and Contractors. Occasionally, Thames21 Project Officers (for
tributary events), local authorities, Port of London Authority

Purpose of the job

The purpose of this job is to plan, prepare for, lead and deliver river clean-up and
restoration events (1x half day event and 1 x full day event or 2 x half day events a week) for
corporate volunteer groups, including planning, timing, conducting pre-event visits and risk
assessments, lead the event on the day, briefing, inspiring, motivating and thanking
volunteers, sort and load/unload equipment, set-up and break-down, clean, sort and maintain
equipment post-event.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Plan, prepare for, lead and deliver river clean-up and restoration events for corporate
  volunteer groups, including planning, timing, conducting pre-event visits and risk assessments,
  lead the event on the day, sort and load/unload equipment, set-up and break-down, clean, sort
  and maintain equipment post-event
• Fill and submit forms relevant to event booking such as PLA, Canal & Rivers Trust, and
  Leaside Canoes
• Engage, inspire and motivate volunteers, taking full responsibility for delivering
  successful and safe events and collect content for Thames21 communications
• Brief volunteers on and lead them in a range of environmental activities, including
  clean-ups on the Thames foreshore, riverbanks of tributaries and in-channel, vegetation
  management such as removing invasive species or clearing scrub to improve diversity, planting
  and maintaining wetlands, tree-planting, toe board removal, etc
• Brief volunteers about Thames21’s aims, the purpose of the volunteering activity and the
  direct impact it will have on river health, and essential Health and Safety protocols, ensuring
  that volunteers comply. At the end of the event, thank participants and signpost them towards
  other Thames21 activities and volunteering events.
• Liaise with Corporate Volunteering Officer to ensure that groups’ needs are clearly
  understood and met
• Liaise with the Corporate Volunteering Officer on event details; communicate directly with
  corporate contacts on logistics if necessary; report promptly on event data and feedback and
  maintain records on Thames21’s database;
• Stand in for the Corporate Volunteering Officer during any absence and ensure that
  corporate volunteering events are adequately staffed and delivered, stepping in if necessary
• Supervise and liaise with Event Support Contractors to ensure safe, effective and enjoyable
  events
• Regularly generate and adapt Risk Assessments and Method Statements in advance of events
• Where necessary, conduct site visits and attend inventory days
• Oversee, brief and where necessary, train Event Support Contractors and volunteers in
  setting out and offering refreshments before and after the event; and in boot cleaning,
  biosecurity and hand washing stages at the end of event
• With Event Support Contractors, load and unload the Thames21 vehicles with event equipment
  before and after the event and manage the cleaning of event equipment if required
• Book vans for events and drive Thames21 vehicles around London to equipment stores and
  event locations.

This job description cannot cover every issue or task that may arise within the post at various
times and the post holder will be expected to carry out other reasonable duties from time to
time which are broadly consistent with other Thames21 activities and with those in this
document.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• The postholder must be willing to travel throughout Greater London and hold a full, clean
  UK driving licence
• The postholder must be fully comfortable with driving 3.5 tonne Vans and require no
  training
• The postholder must be able to undertake physically demanding work regularly e.g., loading
  and unloading vans
• 25 days paid annual leave are available (pro rata) plus public holidays. In addition, the
  Thames21 office. is closed between Christmas and New Year
• An ‘auto enrol’ Workplace Pension Scheme, with an 8% pension contribution from Thames21
• Training allowance
• Thames21 operate a flexitime system of working
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Mobile phone and laptop for company use

Please see the job description on our website for more details about this position.

If you are interested in applying, please email your CV and covering letter of no more than two
sides, stating your suitability for the position to: [email protected] by no
later than 18th February 2024, however
interviews will be conducted if and when suitable candidates apply before the above closing
date.

We appreciate the time you will have taken to apply to this role, and we do appreciate that it
is disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a role you have applied for. However, due to the
high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable respond to or give feedback on
individual applications, but we do want to be able manage expectations.

Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that
your application has not been successful on this occasion. Closing
date is 18th February 2024. Interviews expected to
take place on
1st, 6th or
8th March but these dates are subject to change.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Thames21 is key to our success and as such we employ staff
from a diverse range of backgrounds, this we feel is key in ensuring that everybody has an
equal opportunity and is not treated differently or discriminated against because of their
characteristics.

We value the voices of our individual employees, and we strive to work in a collaborative,
innovative balanced way. The postholder must actively support this.