Youth Group Coordinator

5 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY Full time

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

Title: GFS Youth Group Coordinator
Location: Cardiff CF11 7LJ
Contract: Term time only

Hours: 5 hours weekly

**Salary**: £2,903 **(£14.99 per hr.)**

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

Responsible for: N/A
Other: Female only applicants

We are recruiting a Youth Group Coordinator to run our new GFS group in Cardiff. (location to be confirmed) Your responsibilities include promoting GFS in schools and local networks, recruiting girls/young women; training and leadership of a team of volunteers to plan and deliver weekly sessions as well as supporting the growth of GFS in the local area.

**About GFS**

GFS is a small national charity. 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**

You will have experience of youth work or a related field including developing and delivering activities for children/young people.

You will have the ability to lead, motivate, and inspire volunteers and work as part of a team to deliver a structured programme of activities.

You will be an effective communicator able connect to a variety of audiences; and build your local knowledge to develop effective partnerships with people and organisations.

This post will require unsocial hours. (Evenings and weekend) This post is eligible for an enhanced child workforce criminal record check with the DBS.

**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.

**Other task**

**Group coordination**
- Coordinate the effective running of weekly GFS sessions, through regular attendance and practical implementation of plans and resources.
- Maintain effective communication with parents/carers, e.g., responding to new registrations and appropriate permissions.
- Build good working relationships, including with venue management and establish local partnerships.
- Actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion across all areas of work.
- 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
- Coordinate and support events, trips out and residentials
- 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.
- 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.

This post is eligible for an enhanced child workforce DBS criminal records check.

**Statement of exemption with reference to the Equality Act 2010**
The employee may provide girls and young women with personal services, promoting their welfare or education, which can be provided most effectively by a person of the same sex.

The girls need a positive role model to build self-esteem, confidence and to help them take responsibility for their lives.

Due to the nature of the role this post is restricted to female applicants only under the
Equality Act.

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