Volunteering Engagement Manager

Job id: 157505. Salary: £45,031 - £52,514 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 04 September 2026. Closing date: 20 September 2026.

Business unit: International, Engagement & Service. Department: Service & Impact.

Contact details:Laura Beswick. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

King’s Volunteering embraces creativity and innovation. Our mission is to connect the King’s community with our third-sector partners, through inclusive and transformative volunteering experiences that have a positive social impact. As the Volunteering Partnerships Manager, you will actively seek opportunities to enhance and expand our service, using data and stakeholder insights to refine our approach and further our impact.

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The IES Directorate at King’s brings together the expertise of teams engaging with communities and partners locally, national and globally. IES provides strategic leadership for the university’s engagement at home and abroad, while providing a home for a portfolio of innovative programmes that generate and measure impact and serve the communities we work with and for. IES is home to some of King’s most innovative and impact-driven programming including Sanctuary, the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, King’s Volunteering, One King’s Impact, among others, as well as our civic and place-based engagement in London, and across the world.

Based in the broader Service & Impact team within the International, Engagement, and Service Directorate (IES), the Volunteering Partnerships Manager will play a key role in driving the service forward. Working alongside a small but ambitious team, you will help deliver the King’s Volunteering strategy- encompassing events, internal engagement activities, voluntary-sector partnerships, and impact evaluation.

In this role, you will oversee the service’s operations and lead the development and execution of a communications and engagement plan tailored to key stakeholders, including students, staff, and community partners. You will work with the team to ensure the delivery of a high-quality volunteering service for the King's Community.

This is a full time post (35 per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 25th October 2027.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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