Youth Group Coordinator Leytonstone

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY Full time

**Job Description and Person Specification;**
**GFS Youth Group Coordinator Leytonstone**

Title: GFS Group Coordinator
Location: St John the Baptist, High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1HH(Tuesday 5.30 - 7 pm)
Contract: Term time only

Hours: 5 hours weekly (variable)

**Salary**: £2,507 **(£12.86 per hr. rising to £14.99 per hr. following successful probation)**

Holidays: 25 days pro rata
Reporting to: Head of Operations

Responsible for: N/A
Other: Women only applicants

**About GFS**

Established in 1875, GFS is one of the oldest UK registered charities working to support girls and young women. We believe in challenging gender inequality by empowering girls and young women. We achieve this by providing groups where girls and young women build friendships, gain confidence, and learn that they are unstoppable.

We create a programme of activities designed to develop confidence, self-esteem, emotional wellbeing, and resilience, and recruit and train women volunteers to run those activities in a single gender space.

**About the job**

**Key responsibilities**
- Recruit girls/young women to the group by promoting GFS in schools and local networks.
- Liaise with staff teams and provide timely reports, such an individual group budget, registers, and outcome measurement for girls and young women.
- Train and lead a team of volunteers to plan and deliver weekly GFS sessions and represent your group within the wider organisation, for example regional meetings.

**Key tasks**

**Group coordination**
- To coordinate the effective running of weekly GFS sessions, through regular attendance and practical implementation of plans and resources.

GFS Group Coordinator Leytonstone
- To maintain effective communication with parents/carers, e.g. responding to new registrations and appropriate permissions.
- To collaborate and communicate regularly with GFS Fundraising and Communications,

Finance and People staff teams and provide updates.
- To build good working relationships, including with venue management and establish local partnerships.
- To actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion across all areas of work.

**Volunteer management**
- To deliver training and support your volunteer team to run GFS sessions, implementing a solution driven approach.
- To liaise with the Volunteer Support and Training Coordinator to manage volunteer development and compliance training.
- To induct and support new volunteers to the team.
- To confidently delegate tasks and support volunteers to run their group effectively.

**Programme & planning**
- To put girls and young women at the centre of decision making.
- To organise and lead termly planning meetings, ensuring the group runs a varied programme that supports GFS outcomes.
- To liaise with the programme lead to develop, monitor and evaluate programme content
- To coordinate and support events, trips out and residentials
- To support the development of new GFS groups identified in the GFS cluster model.

This could include identifying venues and developing partnerships for future groups.

**Organisation responsibility**
- To attend regular staff and volunteer meetings.
- To understand and demonstrate GFS values.
- To undertake appropriate training
- To support financial monitoring and budgeting processes
- To demonstrate a practical commitment to equal opportunities and inclusion
- To understand and comply with health and safety procedures - when organising activities for girls and young women, and in support of volunteers, including first aid cover and submission of risk assessments for venue and trips out.
- To ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are followed and incidences are accurately recorded and reported.

**Person Specification**

**Essential Experience Skills and abilities**
- Experience of youth work or related field in particular, developing and delivering activities with children and young people
- Excellent communication and presentational skills, with the ability to connect successfully to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to lead, motivate and inspire volunteers
- Ability to work as part of a team and to deliver a structured programme of activities
- Effective time management, record keeping, and ability to prioritise workload.
- IT literate - comfortable using IT including Outlook and virtual meeting systems, and electronic record keeping systems.
- The ability to work unsociable hours including evening & weekends
- Access to a professional home working environment (with excellent broadband connectivity)
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and an understanding of intersectional practice.
- Ability to build strong local knowledge and develop effective partnerships and working relationships with people and organisations.

**Desirable**
- Understanding of current issues affecting girls and young women
- A commitment to GFS aims, values and ethos.
- An understanding of volunteering
- Ability to negotiate, influence and effect chang

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