Hub Leader Support

About us

DKMS is a charity dedicated to the fight against blood cancer and blood disorders. We raise awareness, recruit blood stem cell donors to the register and raise funds to help give more people with blood cancer a second chance of life.

We also support patients from day one of their diagnosis, as well as their families and friends who often wish to organise events to encourage more people to join the register. This is a really positive way to get involved, and help to rally community support and provide hope at a time when it’s so needed.

About the role

A hub is a group of people who come together and organise activities and events to support DKMS. This can be a group of friends, family, colleagues, or just local people getting together to do something to support our cause.

They do this by organising donor recruitment events, fundraising activities or raising awareness. Any activity they do helps us to acheive our goal. The role of the Hub Leader is to be confident in guiding and organising activities and events. There can be more than one Hub Leader in each hub.

• Main point of contact within DKMS and Hub volunteers.
• Ensure the group fulfils the aims of DKMS UK and follow policy and procedures of the charity
• Plan and organise a calendar of varied Donor Recruitment, Blood Cancer Awareness and fundraising events (ideally four events) with other Hub Volunteers
• Manage and lead a small team of volunteers on all events agreed
• Ensure the group is organised to take into consideration the strengths of other group volunteers, local needs and resources
• Responsible for managing Hub’s social media platforms
• Recruiting more volunteers into the Hub
• Promote the Hub and DKMS UK charity and campaigns within your local community
• Record and process all income within the hub from fundraising events to DKMS UK
• Assist with preparing and circulating DKMS promotional materials
• Supporting with ad-hoc tasks to support the charity when necessary

Volunteers will ideally commit to a minimum of 10 hours a month or a minimum of four small events per year. Hours are flexible and negotiable to suit the volunteer. 

Skills

• Strong leadership skills and delegate task to other volunteers
• Ability to recruit own volunteers
• Ability to use own initiative and be organised
• Honest and reliable
• Good communication skills
• Possess good people skills
• Have a good knowledge and understanding of your local community
• Good numeracy, administrative and organisational skills
• Basic IT skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel. Email and social media platforms