Youth Worker

**Job Title**:Youth Worker (United Youth Initiatives)

**Responsible to**: Youth Work Manager

**Based at**:Omagh

**Hours per week**: 16 hours (flexible working hours).

**Holidays**:The leave entitlement is 20 days Annual Leave, plus 10 days Public Holidays (calculated pro-rata for part-time employees). The leave-year runs from 1st January to 31st December.

**Contract**:This post is funded until 31st December 2027.

**Probationary Period**:6 months

**Additional benefits include**
- Access to Private Health Care scheme
- Flexible working conditions

**Purpose of Post**

To provide support to membership organisations across NI through the delivery of sports, wellbeing, and good relations activities. The post-holder will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating their delivery, and ensuring key targets are met.

**Key Responsibilities**
- To deliver all outcomes involved in the United Youth Initiatives. This is a project that uses sports, physical activity, and health & wellbeing, and environmental awareness to engage with children & young people.
- Promote youth participation and involvement in all organisational activities.
- To work as part of a youth work team, designing, delivering, and coordinating youth activities and events. The post holder must also ensure that all activities are compliant with current legislation; that policy and best practice is maintained at the optimum level in relation to all work with young people.
- Design and participate in regional initiatives, maintain organisational relationships, and work with other youth workers to enrich the project.
- Design and deliver activities that promote the message of positive community relations.
- To facilitate and develop youth participation in decision-making, through building positive relationships with young people, and those who work on their behalf.
- To create awareness of and signpost for services for young people on a range of youth issues including employability, drugs and alcohol abuse, mental health etc.
- To maximise and enhance youth participation and empowerment by utilising and developing electronic communications, social media platforms, networks, and other appropriate forums of benefit to the organisation and its beneficiaries.
- To identify a cohort of project youth ambassadors, nurture their development through a variety of training schemes and empower them to become active volunteers in their communities.
- To support the project coordinator to maintain accurate administrative documents as requested by the project manager.
- Ensure compliance with all Boys & Girls Clubs (NI) polices reference to the safeguarding, health and safety, equal opportunities, and communication policies

**Person Specification**

**Shortlisting Criteria**

**(i). Education experience**:
Educated to Level 3 (A Level) or equivalent.

**(ii). Experience & Knowledge**:
Minimum one years’ experience of designing and delivering programmes and activities to meet the needs of children and young people.

**(iii). Skills and abilities**:
Knowledge of ICT with proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office packages and digital platforms.

Proven track record of implementing and maintaining monitoring and evaluation processes and producing reports in a timely manner.

(iii) **Desirable Criteria and Qualifications.**

These will be used for shortlisting purposes in the event of a large number of applicants.
- **Qualifications.** A relevant qualification in the community youth work, education, health, sport or social science field.
- **Experience**. Experience working, in a paid capacity, within a youth work setting.

**Please Note**:
CVs and cover letters must arrive no later than:
**LATE APPLICATIONS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED.**

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: £25,221.00-£27,560.00 per year

Expected hours: No less than 16 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/02/2025
Reference ID: UYIYW25