Vacancies

Volunteer Co-ordinator – Green Buddies Project

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our dedicated team as our new Volunteer Co-ordinator (VC). The VC will take the lead in recruiting and supporting volunteers across FarmAbility’s host sites.  They will help volunteers to effectively fulfil their roles through providing recruitment, induction and supervision support as well as annual access to formal training.  They will also take responsibility for: monitoring volunteer numbers and data; effective communications; ensuring that our volunteers feel valued and supported in their roles.  The postholder will have experience supporting people with Learning Disabilities and those who are autistic within practical activities and the skills and knowledge to guide our volunteers in their own development.

Additionally, the new VC will lead on our new Green Buddies project.  This will develop a strand of Supported Volunteering for existing co-farmers, who will benefit from a 1-1 buddy, a person who can support them to access individual environmental/ horticulture volunteering opportunities, with our own projects and with partner organisations around Oxfordshire.  This is a funded project and at least 1 day per week will be spent on developing and creating this new opportunity for our co-farmers.  The VC will liaise closely with the Programme and Office Administrator, Co-Farmer Outcomes Lead and Programme Leaders about volunteer recruitment, site allocation and priority needs for our day-to-day service and the new project.

This is a multi-faceted role, with opportunity to grow and develop. FarmAbility is a warm and friendly place to work and we put a lot of store on creating strong team relationships and a flexible, accommodating work environment.  All staff share our goal of a more inclusive society and a determination to enable co-farmers to achieve positive outcomes and experiences within our service.

To find out more about the role you can read the job description and person specification below.  If you would like to apply, please follow the instructions on the documents and send in your application together with a completed Diversity Monitoring Form to jobs@farmability.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 9th September 2026.

Volunteer Co-ordinator JD August 2026

Diversity Monitoring Form 2023 (word)

Diversity Monitoring Form 2023(pdf)