Youth Project Lead

3 months ago

Coventry, United Kingdom The Highlife Centre Full time

**About the Highlife Centre**

The Highlife Centre is a charitable company incorporated on 21st October 2010. We are an agile and forward-thinking organisation that co-creates impactful programmes with our service users and partners. Our vision is to create a welcoming environment that removes life-improving barriers for people from disadvantaged and minoritized backgrounds. Our mission enables our beneficiaries to become confident and productive in their communities so they can have a sense of purpose, access resources, and skills that could turn their aspirations into reality, and make positive changes in their lives to aspire and achieve their full potential.

**Job Overview**:
We are seeking a dedicated Youth Leader to join our team and make a positive impact on the lives of young individuals. You will support the delivery of the Youth Vision Project, leading the Aspirations and Leadership. You will manage and work with the young people to develop a series of projects and events that will set them up with the skills to become young professional adults. This strand is broken down into the following areas:

- **No Limits**:

- a 5 week programme that will focus on specific soft skills and community ideas that young people can benefit from having in the work place.
- **Leadership in Practice**:

- Facilitating an initiative that the young people come up with and supporting them to deliver this.
- **Active Citizenship**:

- working with local communities and governing bodies to enable the young people to engage in activities that will allow them to make a difference on an official level.
- **Youth Club**:

- Informal workshops that will enable the young people to have discussions about valuable topics whilst engaging in fun activities.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support with the delivery and management of the Youth Vision Project
- specifically programmes that enable the development of young people’s professional and leadership skills.
- Lead the programming of the Leadership in Practice events.
- Lead the Active citizenship activity.
- Supervise the Youth Club
- Manage the youth executives under your strands and help run facilitation, training and events.
- Ensure young people play a strong leadership role across the work.
- Be a mentor and role model for young people participating in your strand.
- Manage budgets for Leadership in Practice activity.
- Manage data collection and monitoring processes and ensure projects achieve their outputs and outcomes on time and within budget.
- Manage the scheduling of activities including volunteers.
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders including partner organisations.
- Update the project’s progress to internal stakeholders via meetings, written reports and presentations.
- Be the direct liaison for parents of young people participating in your strand.
- Participate in marketing, recruitment and community engagement activities.
- Build relationships with aligned organisations identifying opportunities to work in partnership where appropriate.
- Work closely with colleagues to cover for each other as and when required.

**Communication**
- Assist the centre admin and marketing staff in developing marketing and communications materials.
- Lead the delivery of events to showcase activities as well as events that form part of the learning experience for young people.
- Keep up to date on new developments and trends within the youth sectors.
- Manage and operate within the agreed Youth Vision plan and budget to ensure that departmental targets are met.
- Represent at events and conferences.
- Act as an ambassador for the organisation, contributing to the effectiveness of meetings, the sharing of knowledge and experience and the development of the Highlife Centre and its profile.
- Ensure the Highlife Centre’s Health and Safety and Safeguarding and any other appropriate policies are adhered to where necessary.
- Undertake any other duties and reasonable requests that are in keeping with the nature of this post.

**Behaviours and Expectations**
- An understanding and belief in the inclusion of all staff, partners and young people irrespective of race, gender, sexuality, age, religion, ability, identity, and experience.
- Actively promote and embed an understanding of equity, diversity and an inclusive culture.
- Able to provide detailed feedback to direct reports on performance and development areas.
- Able to mentor and develop skills in others.
- Able to support others to learn from mistakes and support well-being.
- Able to delegate work effectively and provide practical support.

**Person specification: Project Manager Experience**
- Demonstrate some project management experience.
- Experience in leading facilitation and training teams to deliver content for young people.
- Understanding and empathy for the current issues facing young people.
- Strong people management skills.
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to connect with peop

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