Youth Work Team Leader - Digital Communications And Engagement

Youth Work Team Leader - Digital Communications and Engagement

Permanent, Full Time

£24,799 to £27,434 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

This is an exciting opportunity for a Youth Work Team leader who is passionate about young people across Essex. The purpose of the role is to manage the creation, publishing, and distribution of our digital footprint across Essex Youth Service owned media channels, websites, newsletters, and blogs collaborating with young people on content- to meet the Youth Services objectives and in line with priorities.

This will be a Youth Work based role with a theme of Digital comms and Engagement throughout.

Line management of Youth Support Workers and Apprentices maybe required.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage the development of organisational capability through good people management, including the training, development, mentoring and coaching of team members.
• Thinking creatively, challenging the norms, and constructively challenging those around them to ensure continuous improvement, and inspire the same in employees.
• Ensure the proper assessment, management, and mitigation of risk, including Health and Safety and Business Continuity
• Work as part of a team, to ensure young people's needs are at the forefront of all project delivery.

Role Specific Accountabilities:

• Work alongside Young People creating the Essex Digital Footprint across the Youth Service.
• Write, commission, and edit content across all digital platforms used to maintain a consistent tone of voice in all marketing communications.
• Develop content on the main Essex Youth Service site via our web content management system Umbraco
• Access and manage reputational risk on all digital platforms.
• Test and optimise online content to increase audience reach and Engagement.
• Report on the effectiveness of content marketing campaigns at appropriate intervals
• Attend Communications and marketing network meeting / events.
• Staying up to date with the latest social media trends and digital technologies
• Monitoring and responding to young people and stakeholders' comments and social media posts.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• A nationally recognised JNC qualification in youth support work, minimum Level 2 (QCF, VRQ, NVQ or Local) with a willingness to undertake a relevant level three qualification.
• Experience working with a diverse range of Young People across Essex aged between 13-25
• Experience working with various social media platforms
• Great communication skills in order to liaise with stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of Youth Work methods and techniques.
• Excellent level of numeracy, literacy (GCSE A - C or equivalent or demonstrable experience) and good IT skills.

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Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

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We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

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What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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