Administrative Assistant

Purpose of the role: 

The role of volunteer administrative assistance is to support the board of trustees in running the charity and communicating with the public including our members when necessary. 

Main Duties: 

• Monitoring of administration email inbox and forwarding emails to the correct personnel 
• Liaison with external agencies and companies as and when required 
• Sending documents as and when required 
• Scanning and filing or disposal of documents. 
• Upload of documents onto local or cloud-based storage systems 
• Respond to application enquiries 
• Send application forms 
• Schedule interviews and update database 
• Keeping a register of members booking onto sessions. 
• There may also be some work adding details of events and sessions to our social media pages. 
• Updating information on our Sensory Resource Library storage system. 
• This list of duties may increase or decrease as we develop our range of volunteering roles.  

Skills required: 

• Good Communication Skills 
• The ability to work independently 
• Some office skills, in particular with office 365, emails and phone systems. 
• Prefer the volunteer to have own computer. 

Work Hours: 

Up to 10 hours a week, preferably during the morning, but we can be flexible.

Working remotely 

What’s in it for you: 

This is an opportunity to work with a diverse group of people with one goal which is to ensure local families are supported through our existing services with the potential to expand our services into the wider community. 

There will be regular monitoring by a supervisor 

Training provided with the possibility of further training to support your development.