Working pattern: 21 hours, over 3 days per week, Wednesdays & Thursdays required + one flexible day

Location: Home-based (with occasional travel within England/Wales)

Contract type: 12 month fixed term

Salary PA: £28,000 FTE (£16,800 Pro-Rata)

Join us and help shape the future of education governance.

Governors for Schools is a national education charity committed to ensuring every school, trust and college benefits from excellent governance. We connect diverse, talented volunteers with governing boards that need their skills — improving outcomes for children and young people across the country.

We’re currently looking for a proactive, people-focused Recruitment Resourcer to help us match skilled volunteers with impactful governance opportunities.

What you’ll do

Volunteer Recruitment & Matching

· Create eye catching volunteer adverts using our CRM and Canva.

· Promote roles on job boards and proactively source potential candidates.

· Review new applications against our current vacancies to effectively match their experience with the roles.

· Carry out targeted outreach for priority vacancies.

· Ensure volunteers receive an exceptional experience.

Relationship & Process Management

· Keep CRM records accurate and up to date.

· Build warm, professional relationships with volunteers and partner schools/trusts/colleges.

· Understand and be able to translate key volunteer preferences and motivations into matches against school, trust and college needs

· Follow up with unresponsive volunteers to keep placements moving.

· Assist in identifying new leads and partnership opportunities.

Administration & Support

· Manage our information inboxes.

· Oversee remote video conferencing facility (Zoom, Teams) account setup for presentations and collect/collate attendance data.

· Ensure volunteers can access our ongoing training and support offer, coordinating invites and attendance where needed.

· Manage scheduled contact points with vacancy holders.

What we’re looking for

· Someone organised, friendly and confident communicating via email and phone.

· A natural relationship builder who enjoys helping others succeed.

· A detail oriented professional who manages multiple tasks with care.

· Experience in recruitment or volunteer management is helpful, but not essential.

Role details

· Part time: 3 days per week

· Wednesdays and Thursdays required

· One additional day can be flexible

· Homebased, with occasional travel for team meetings

· Work alongside our supportive Partnerships and Marketing teams

· Contribute directly to our strategic goals of increasing governor placements and growing our national profile.

Make a real impact

If you’re passionate about education, love working with people, and want a role where your work directly supports the education sector, we’d love to hear from you.

Why apply?

Working with Governors for Schools, you’ll be able to impact the education of thousands of children, as well as helping people develop their skills by volunteering as a governor. We have team away days twice a year, so there'll be occasional travel to take part in these.

· Flexible working - Our working day allows you work within the hours of 7am - 7pm. We ask that working hours include 10am-3pm (with a lunch break!) to allow time for meetings with colleagues. The role working days are set out as above.

· Generous holiday allowance of 33 days (pro rata for part time employees) including Bank Holidays.

· Wellbeing Hours – Additional allocation of time off to focus on wellbeing

· Volunteer hours given to carry out a governor role.

We know that diversity is a strength in the workplace and that harnessing this diversity will create a workplace in which everyone feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised, and where our aims are met. We welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

To help us recruit and retain diverse employees, we have reviewed our recruitment process and will:

· Advertise on a range of job boards to reach a diverse pool of applicants.

· Redact identifying information from applications before shortlisting.

· Have different people shortlist and interview candidates.

· Have set criteria which candidates are scored against to minimise bias.

· Involve all employees in the recruitment process.

· Commit to training staff on Diversity and Inclusion and hold ourselves accountable to our Diversity Policy.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via email to hr@governorsforschools.org.uk

The closing date is 6pm on Sunday 15^th March 2026

Interviews to be held by MS Teams between 23^rd March and 2^nd April.

CVs without a cover letter won’t be accepted.

If shortlisted you will be asked to attend an interview on MS Teams with two members of staff. Governors for Schools share interview questions with candidates ahead of the interview to ensure we are recruiting the right people with the right skills.

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