Youth Engagement Co-ordinator- West Midlands

2 months ago


Remote, United Kingdom Volunteer It Yourself Full time

**Youth Engagement Co-ordinator (YEC) / West Midlands - Job specification**

**About Volunteer It Yourself (VIY)**

VIY combines volunteering and DIY by challenging young people aged 14-24 to learn trade and building skills, on the job, by helping to refurbish and transform youth and community facilities in need of essential improvements (e.g. youth clubs, community centre’s, sports clubs, and arts, music and cultural venues).

The majority of young people who take part and benefit are disengaged or excluded from mainstream education and training, at risk of disengagement and/or unemployed.

VIY participants are mentored by professional tradespeople and gain vocational skills accreditations as well as access to further training, work placement and apprenticeship opportunities with local providers and employers beyond the project.

VIY launched in 2011 and, to date, over 700 youth and community buildings across England and Wales have been repaired/refurbished, involving 13,000 young people and 1,100 trade skills mentors, with 4,500 young people gaining a City & Guilds accreditation.

Due to expansion of our work in the West Midlands, we are looking for a determined, communicative and confident individual to join our team to support our work.

**Job purpose**

Our mission is to support young people with meaningful trade and construction work experience opportunities and inspire them to want to take a positive step within the sector. Youth Engagement Co-ordinators (YECs) play a critical role in this, helping often disengaged young people raise their aspirations, aspire to achieve something positive, learn new skills and, importantly, develop self belief and confidence.

YEC’s are responsible for engaging young people onto VIY projects, ensuring they have a positive experience and working with our Progressions colleagues to support them at the end of the project with progression opportunities where relevant/appropriate, into further training and employment opportunities. To support this, a key part of the role is to identify and establish partnerships with local organisations who share our ambitions of supporting young people with brilliant, potentially life changing opportunities and experiences.

**The role**

**Accountable to**:Project Manager

**Location: Across West Midlands**:This is a home-based role, however, there will be elements of travel
- in particular to Redditch and Bromsgrove, as well as Solihull, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Flexibility and willingness to travel on occasions is important, to support business needs in other regions (for example, include East Midlands, North West).

This is an exciting and varied role which offers opportunities for experience and development across a broad range of VIY teams.
- Identify, establish and maintain relationships in the region with new and existing youth referral partners to drive young people’s engagement with VIY
- Communicate directly with young people about VIY projects through presentations to group of young people, with a view to engaging them onto projects
- Work with project management team to understand details and opportunities of multiple projects simultaneously, and to ensure mentors are appropriately briefed on young people attending
- Work with the youth engagement team to maximise young people on projects through creative, innovative and engaging methods
- Achieve recruitment and progression targets for each project
- Monitor number of young people engaged and adjust recruitment plans accordingly to maximise engagement with each project, ensuring targets are met
- Ensure young people/ youth referral partners are well briefed on VIY and the opportunity available, including project logistics and an overview of the experience they can expect
- Engage directly with young people through Welcome Calls and other forms of communication, as required, to ensure young people feel excited, informed and motivated to take part in a project
- Co-ordinate all logistics relating to young people’s attendance and participation e.g travel, registration, evaluation surveys etc
- Deliver employability workshops to groups of young people on VIY projects
- Work with VIY colleagues to support young people to progress, where relevant/appropriate, to new training and employment opportunities beyond VIY
- Engage with new and existing organisations to aid the support of learners in sustained opportunities post project. This can include but is not limited to: Construction organisations, Training Providers, Colleges & Employability Services.
- Work with colleagues to ensure accurate and regular data collection from young people and venues, which is appropriately recorded and maintained on Salesforce
- Any other tasks as may be reasonably required

**Skills and Experience**

**Essential**
- Experience of working with young people
- Excellent organisational skills and experience of multi-tasking
- An ability to build rapport with people from a wide range of backgro


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