Project Coordinator (Fathers)

Location:

This role is primarily based in our Brent office with occasional travel to our Croydon and Kings Cross offices.  However, our hybrid working model allows staff members to do some homeworking.

The Role

The Youth Development Coordinator is responsible for the development and delivery of our youth development programme for young refugees and asylum seekers.

You will be focused on ensuring our programme activities achieve our outcomes, are in line with our strategy and identify areas for change and development under the direction of the Head of Services. An excellent communicator and skilled at working with partners, you will be key in the implementation and running of our weekly Youth Club and Advice and Support Hub working closely with the Youth Development Worker and having oversight of our weekly Young Women’s group and Skills Workshops.  

Working with the Brent team, and wider Young Roots staff, you will play a key role in our youth participation and youth leadership work in Brent. 

You will prioritise the participation of young people in all activities, ensuring excellent safeguarding by following our policy and protocols, and ensure that we collect excellent data for monitoring and evaluation and to aid our future planning. You will also assist with staff and volunteer recruitment and reporting to our funding partners. 

We particularly value lived experience of the asylum system.

Job Description 

To be responsible for coordinating, planning, and delivering our youthwork programme in Brent, ensuring you are focused on achieving our outcomes and impact for young refugees and asylum seekers – and working within our current strategy, youth development strategy and implementation plan. Our current youth work activities are: 

·       1:1 youthwork 

·       Young Women’s’ Group 

·       Support and Advice Hub (including cricket and football) 

·       Youth Club 

·       Trips and Residentials 

·       English classes 

2.    To manage the Brent Youth Development Team 

·       Line manage Youth Development Workers  

·       Supervise volunteers to enable them to support activities with young people 

·       Assist the Head of Services with the recruitment and induction of staff and volunteers, ensuring young people’s participation in the process.  

·       To ensure excellent monitoring and evaluation 

·       To have a supportive and wellbeing-focused approach to line management of staff - ensuring regular one-to-one supervision meetings and annual Performance and Development Reviews. 

3.    To play a key role in the delivery of our weekly Youth Club and Advice and Support Hub. This includes working closely with the Head of Services, Casework Manager and Hub partners and subsequent follow-up actions relating to supporting young people access their rights and entitlements.  

4.    To play a key role in developing and co-ordinating youth participation work, working closely with young people and the Head of Services:  

·                To ensure the views of young people are central to the shaping and delivery of all youth activities in Brent.  

·                to be responsible for ensuring young refugees and asylum seekers are meaningfully involved in participation opportunities – or other relevant projects. 

5.    To be responsible for ensuring there are adequate volunteers/staff present to safely run each session/trip and to find staff cover in the case of illness or absence. 

6.    To identify, propose and with agreement from the Head of Services, develop and run new projects in line with our new strategy and implementation plan, meeting unmet need and with advice from young refugees and asylum seekers in Brent and surrounding areas.  

7.    To ensure targeted outreach to young asylum seekers and refugees, publicising projects creatively and appropriately, including at relevant schools and colleges in the local area.  

8.    To ensure excellent safeguarding practice, and always follow our Safeguarding Policy, reporting any Safeguarding incidents to the Designated Safeguarding Lead ad ensuring they are informed, and appropriate, timely action is taken. 

9.    To work with the Impact and Communications Manager to provide content (photos, videos, quotes, case studies) which is safe for and respectful of the young people we support, with the right permissions that can be used as part of communications to our supporters, on social media and as evidence of our work to funders. 

10. Ensure activities in Brent are monitored and evaluated in line with the agreed protocols. 

11. To build collaborative relationships with partners and referral organisations attending and organising partnership meetings as required. 

12. Manage new referrals to the service alongside our Casework manager 

General Responsibilities

·                To work within Young Roots’ values at all times. 

·                To have a creative approach to your work highlighting new areas of need/new service ideas to the team and your manager. 

·                To attend regular supervision, project planning, team and debrief meetings as agreed with your manager. 

·                To attend and take part in training as agreed with your manager 

·                (optional) To attend youthwork supervision (clinical is also available) 

·                To read, understand and agree to Young Roots youth participation statement. 

·                To read, understand and agree to Young Roots child protection/safeguarding policy. 

·                To read, understand and implement the Young Roots Equal Opportunities policy.

·                To undertake other tasks as requested by the Head of Services. 

For further details please download the job pack for the role.