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Volunteering Matters
- VO100955
Are you looking for a rewarding way of sharing your experiences and life skills in order to make a positive impact in your community and help tackle poverty? This is the opportunity for you!
Volunteering Matters are now recruiting volunteer mentors for the MSV (Mentoring & Supported Volunteering) project in Dundee. Mentors will provide 1:1 support to an individual in their community to overcome barriers they face in reaching positive destinations e.g. employment, further education, volunteering etc.
MSV is a person-centred project, putting mentees at the heart of the match making process. The volunteer mentor role is fully supported by the MSV team, and the time commitment is very flexible, we ask for a minimum of 4 months commitment, but many mentoring relationships have gone on longer than this. This role will involve getting to know your mentee and the challenges they may face, discussing their future goals, building their confidence, sharing your own experiences or skills, and ultimately championing them to progress in life and work.
MSV mentoring can take place face to face in/around the Dundee area, or remotely/online where necessary.
Our volunteers do not need to have any specific career experience or qualification – just a positive and empathetic mindset and a passion for helping others to succeed. Some mentees are looking for a career-based match (working with someone who has experience of the area they want to pursue), whilst others are looking for more general support in identifying their goals, building their self-confidence or working through challenges they face with a new, objective perspective. Your personal outlook, life experiences or professional expertise could be exactly what a mentee is looking for in mentoring support – so please get in touch!
Experience required
Enough personal and professional experience that you would feel confident in being able to competently support somebody in their own employability journey or in overcoming barriers to positive destinations.
Empathetic, positive, non judgemental. Interested in improving your own leadership/coaching skills. Willing to comply with required application/ PVG check, training/ monitoring processes of the volunteer role.
Travel expenses
Travel expenses paid within the Dundee area.
Support
Training details
Becoming a mentor and Safeguarding training.
Restrictions
Minimum age: 18
Availability
Mon
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Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Frequency & commitment
Flexible. This really depends on what works best for both you and your mentee to work around your life/work schedules. We typically suggest trying to meet regularly for 1 hour every 1-2 weeks, but this is not fixed.
Volunteers (aged 18-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.
Find out more
Please fill out this form to register your interest in the opportunity Volunteer Mentor (MSV Dundee) with Volunteering Matters
Your email address and phone number will only be used by the organisation/TSI you are contacting to discuss in more detail the opportunity you are enquiring about.
Your details and message will be sent to:
MSV Dundee Team, Volunteering Matters
MSV Dundee Team, Volunteering Matters
Email address: msvdundee@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
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