VCS Coordinator

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO5 (£52,194 – £55,323)
Hours per week: 36 per week, hybrid
Contract type: FTC – 2 Years
Closing date: Sunday, 24th May 2026
Interviews: w/c 1st June 2026 (Expected)

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This role provides strategic coordination across Haringey’s Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), working closely with the council’s Capacity Building Partner, Haringey Community Collaborative, to support the voluntary sector with peer support, skills development, and identifying funding opportunities, all with a view to building a strong and sustainable sector. The role is key to growing long term relationships across the VCS, facilitating the collaborative delivery of Haringey’s Borough Vision 2035.

The VCS Coordinator will work across council services to build relationships between the council and the VCS, ensuring grass roots organisations and residents are able to shape and work in partnership on the delivery of projects and services. This role will also lead on the implementation of our Social Value Leases Policy, providing an equitable assessment process for community buildings to be allocated and rented.

About the Team

The role is based in the Placemaking and Community Development Service and sits alongside the Resettlement Team (supporting vulnerable migrants to settle in Haringey), the council’s anti-racism work, and Community Networks which bring VCS groups and community representatives together with senior leadership from the public sector to build trust and find shared solutions to challenges and opportunities.

The service area has a strong culture of strengths-based practice, honesty, and compassion. We work collaboratively with our partners and residents and have seen the greatest impact where trust between residents, VCS groups, and the council is built and maintained through good communication, collaboration and shared responsibility.

About You

You will be a confident and highly organised relationship builder, with a strong commitment to equity and community empowerment.
You will bring:
•    Excellent communication skills and the ability to build productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including grassroots organisations, residents, senior officers and external partners
•    A strong understanding of the VCS, including the challenges and opportunities facing voluntary and community organisations
•    Awareness of the impacts of discrimination and marginalisation, and confidence in working with disadvantaged communities to identify and remove barriers
•    Experience of developing or supporting successful funding applications, managing competing deadlines and maintaining high standards of professionalism
•    Good analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to manage complex and sometimes sensitive issues
•    The confidence to operate in a politically sensitive environment, with an understanding of – or the ability to quickly learn – how local government operates
•    A reflective, compassionate approach, with the ability to handle sensitive conversations with honesty, integrity and care

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk.