Youth & Community Coordinator

The post holder will be responsible for the development of a programme aimed at supporting young people to plan, deliver and evaluate a range of community projects.

Our development areas will be:

· Building a caring mentoring and befriending relationship programme.

· Youth leadership and development support.

· Support for young people’s health, fitness & well-being.

Facilitating and supporting regular youth engagement projects, youth bank, health, and fitness programme.

The person appointed will be responsible for setting up and coordinating the project which aims to enhance skills in self-management and behaviour control through mentoring and befriending, leadership, multi-sports, advice and guidance sessions and team working activities.

The main aim of the project is to support young people to make informed decisions, providing them with an increased sense of control over their own lives, encouraging them to feel more positive about themselves and future opportunities

Main Duties & Responsibilities

To create working conditions in which young people can have fun participating in community projects.

To support young people to identify and appreciate learning outcomes from their experiences.

To create working conditions in which young people feel safe, secure, and confident enough to take control of their own activities, feeling valued for their knowledge and experience.

To carry out face to face work to develop and support the work of the youth forum

To co-ordinate training programmes for young people and ensure learning outcomes are met

To provide one to one support to young people participating within the projects

To support young people in data collection activities and peer evaluation exercises

To work within the Confidentiality, Equal Opportunity, Health and Safety and Child Protection policies of COSG.

The worker will:

· Deliver and support a caring mentoring and befriending service.

· Support young people to engage in projects and other activities.

· Address young people’s barriers to participation

· Raise the confidence and motivation levels of young people

· Enable young people to become more proficient at using social media technology

· Provide creative arts, music and media workshops and work towards delivering community events

· Facilitate topic based awareness workshops e.g. youth culture, hate crime, substance misuse

· Use appropriate assessment tools in order to identify and assess young people’s barriers and achieve positive change

· Co-ordinate young people’s volunteering and training opportunities

· Support young people to achieve a better quality of life

· Provide monthly/ quarterly statistical monitoring information

Other associated tasks:

· Local networking with community partner projects.

· Contributing to the delivery of general events and activities as part of the team.

· Ensuring quality assurance in delivery.

· Risk assessment of venues & activities.

· Promotion of positive community values in line with COSG’s ethos supporting participants to participate and integrate at all times.

· Promotion of equal opportunities at all times.

· Full participation in staff supervision, staff meetings, the staff appraisal process and personal/professional development.

· Contribution to fund-raising events and activities.

· Assistance with marketing and publicity, contributing to COSG newsletters.

Person Specification

COSG has developed the use of selection criteria to aid objective recruitment in line with our Equal Opportunities policy. Candidates must address all the following criteria in their supporting statement.

Experience

· Experience of delivering client specific and structured group sessions.

· Experience of working with disadvantaged young people who sometimes display challenging behaviours.

· Experience of working to targets, implementing monitoring, and recording systems.

· Ability to lead a project/programme.

· Experience of delivering programmes that are focussed on soft skills, mentoring and employability.

· Experience of facilitating activity-based programmes and ensure learning outcomes are met.

· Experience of delivering football training sessions.

· Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with young people, the public, staff, and management (face to face, telephone, reports to funders, letters, and emails).

Knowledge and understanding

· An understanding of the needs of those deemed NEET and socially disadvantaged groups.

· Knowledge of local and national policy and legislation relevant to voluntary sector, youth, and other relevant topics.

· Knowledge of health and fitness theory and practice.

· Understanding of young people’s mental and physical health issues.

· Understanding of equality and diversity values and ability to apply them.

· An understanding of safeguarding and child protection legislation and practice.

Skills and abilities

· The ability to organise and to be self-motivated.

· A willingness to undertake continuous personal development.

· The ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

· IT literacy.

· A confident and calm approach to problems and an ability to use initiative in finding solutions.

· Skills in delivering value to clients: service orientation, problem solving; demonstrating leadership in role including being tolerant, flexible, and open minded to new ideas and driving change within the organisation.

· Contributing to the organisation’s development and showing a clear commitment to innovate.

· Good communication skills including delivering presentations to local community and educational establishments.

· Strong organisational skills.

· Knowledge of social networking and use of social media sites

· Writing articles for inclusion on a website/blog/newsletter

· Ability to be able to work independently.

· Ability to promote activities via outreach work as necessary.

· This post includes evening working (Friday, Saturday, and occasional Sunday).

Qualifications

Experience and/or qualifications to a level at least equivalent to:

· Degree level or appropriate HND/HNC

· Qualification or training in youth work, social work, education studies or other relevant subject area.

· Relevant Mentoring or coaching certifications.

Candidates must have achieved a basic educational level including:

· GCSEs or equivalent in English and Maths

Equal Opportunities:

The Youth & Community Co-ordinator will be expected to work within the principles of equal opportunities and to implement all aspects of COSG’s Equal Opportunities policy.

The post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Other requirements

The post includes working Friday, Saturday evenings and our annual Sunday community events.

Further information:

For application information please contact COSG on 0161 881 4631

or email admin@yosg.org.uk

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £20,858.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Gym membership
• On-site gym

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 29/04/2024