Volunteer & Business Development Manager

Volunteer & Business Development Manager

📍 Central London + Travel to Prisons | Full-Time

Some jobs pay the bills.

Some jobs actually change lives.

This is one of those roles.

We’re supporting a fast-growing charity that helps prison leavers rebuild their future through real opportunities. Real training. Real employment. Real support systems.

They’re now looking for someone exceptional to build and lead a volunteer programme that genuinely makes an impact.

Not maintain it.

Not “manage” it.

Build it.

This is an opportunity to create something meaningful from the ground up. A volunteer network that gives people leaving prison a proper second chance and surrounds them with support that actually works.

You’ll take ownership of a growing 200+ volunteer community and shape the entire journey from recruitment and onboarding through to engagement, events, partnerships and long-term growth.

If you’re the kind of person who sees gaps and instinctively starts building solutions, keep reading.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Designing and launching a full volunteer programme from the ground up

- Creating structured pathways across mentoring, employability, events and skills-based volunteering

- Recruiting, onboarding and training volunteers, including prison-specific compliance processes

- Building engagement strategies that keep a large volunteer community active, connected and motivated

- Developing corporate partnerships that help fund and grow the programme

- Planning and delivering impactful events both inside prisons and within the wider community

- Managing budgets, reporting, policies and programme impact tracking