Job Title: Growth and Development Worker Location: Home based Salary: GBP27,250 gross per annum Job type: Fixed term until 31st March 2026 : Full time 35hrs per week Closing Date: 21st July 2025. Assessment Day: 5th August 2025. Are you looking for a new opportunity? The Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five:year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success. We are currently looking for a Growth and Development Worker based in England to join our team. This is an externally funded post which will be focused on opening new provision and supporting existing provision in order to reduce waiting lists within specific funding areas. This is a very varied and rewarding role that requires someone who is self:motivated, organised, creative, tenacious, positive, IT competent and with a real interest in people. You need to be able to coach, empower and inspire our volunteers and cadets, both in person and remotely, to grow the Sea Cadets. Responsibilities: * Delivering a variety of training sessions on, for example, recruitment of cadets and volunteers * Developing new growth and recruitment tools and ideas * Promoting flexible volunteering and the volunteer strategy * Assisting with running our social media accounts * Working with and empowering our volunteers to develop plans for growth * Planning and setting up Juniors Sections in new and existing locations/units * Delivering assemblies in schools * Forming part of various working groups with colleagues to develop the tools, resources and processes needed to increase the positive impact of the Growth and Development team. * Supporting the delivery of funded outreach projects Requirements: * Previous experience of working with volunteers * Experience delivering on multiple project plans simultaneously * Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a variety of stakeholders remotely and face:to:face * Experience delivering workshops and/or training * Self:motivated and able to manage your time and workload effectively * Flexible and enthusiastic * Able to work as a team player with creative ideas and solutions who will empower our volunteers to make a difference to the lives of even more young people across the UK Benefits: * Flexible Working hours and a hybrid culture * Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan * 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays * Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension * Private medical insurance * Pension (employer contribution up to 10) * Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling * Employee development: We are investing in our employees development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential. * National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise. If you are interested in this Growth and Development vacancy, please apply now Additional Information: MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries