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Job description

Both roles will work with young people aged 14-24 years, facing disadvantage, and support them to engage positively with others from a different background and increase personal, civic and employability skills. .

Responsibilities

• Ensures youth development approach and principles are embedded in delivery and lead to change, with co-design processes creating a genuine climate for engagement and clear role in design and delivery.
• Contribute to the engagement, recruitment, and selection of participants within agreed profile. Proactively build networks and collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with parents/guardian to ensure consent (as required) and support for young person and act as an advocate for young person's interests.
• Contribute to induction, baseline & final assessments across personal, social, cultural, and employability areas and co-design of individual personal training plan based on identified need.
• Assume leadership in creating and fostering a climate which encourages positive growth and personal development in the participants.
• Lead and mentor, coach, and support young people to reflect on development and facilitate personal, social, cultural growth and build employability.
• Ensure effective participant recording systems and caseload management.
• Contribute to programme design with programme team. Deliver (both online and face to face, as needed) non-accredited training to increase personal, social, cultural development and employability.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Has or currently studying 3rd level qualification in related field plus 3 years paid experience working with young people. Or, Minimum Level 4 qualification in related field plus 3 years experience working with young people.
• Two years paid experience of facilitating non-formal learning and delivering accredited qualifications.
• Experience of recruitment and engagement of young people onto programmes.
• Experience of individual needs assessment, mentoring young people facing multiple/complex issues, recording and reporting on work.
• Experience of undertaking funder-related duties and working in a target driven environment.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills including planning and prioritisation of work.
• Ability to work on own initiative, be self-motivated, flexible and work under pressure.
• Computer literacy (use of Microsoft Outlook/Word).
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Good social skills for internal and external communication.
• Ability to work as a key member of a team.
• Commitment to own development.
• Ability & willingness to work outside of normal hours on some occasions.
• Full clean driving license and access to transport, or alternative arrangements to fulfil the travel needs of the project.

Desirable Skills

• GCSE Maths and English (Grades A-C) OR Level Two Literacy & Numeracy or above.
• Experience of working with young people participating in a range of creative and/or outdoor learning opportunities.
• Category D1 on licence.