Volunteer Mentor

6 hours ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom City Year UK Full time

City Year UK is a youth and education charity which empowers 18-25 year olds to tackle educational inequality through a year of full-time volunteering in schools.

Our mission is twofold:

- to give every pupil the chance to succeed, by partnering with schools to coach those furthest from opportunity to achieve the social, emotional and academic results they need to progress at every stage of their education; and
- to tap into the talent, energy and idealism of diverse young adults to drive social change in education and develop the standout experience, leadership skills and networks to launch any career.

In School...

*Building meaningful and trusting relationships with targeted pupils to support them in school

*1-to-1 mentoring, working with a designated list of pupils who require more intensive support (when required), delivering a range of interventions in English and maths using content provided by the school

*Supporting teachers in the classroom by working with small groups of pupils

*Being an example of good behaviour for all children at all times

*Helping to encourage attendance and punctuality in all pupils

*Encouraging library use, supervising homework or study clubs, supervising fun before-school activities for the whole school (such as breakfast clubs), to get pupils energised and ready for school

*Running a range of extra curricular clubs, e.g sports, music, homework, debating etc to help build children’s confidence

*Measuring the impact of your interventions on your focus list students through access to student data

*Supporting the school with break and lunch duties, creating displays, coordinating of special events and trips, sorting or marking of books or materials, and entering valuable pupil data

*Planning special projects to engage parents and the local community

And out of school

*Developing your career with training, coaching and career workshops

*Attending external events with our business partners and influential figures

*Appearing at recruitment events, in order to inspire and tell prospective volunteers all about what we do and how it all works

*Taking part in volunteering days with our funders

*Shadowing our staff and business partners while at work

*Supporting with the planning and delivery of social action projects in the local community

*Connecting with a mentor for your own professional development

**Job Types**: Full-time, Volunteer

**Salary**: £18.00 per day

**Benefits**:

- Free or subsidised travel

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- BIRMINGHAM: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK as we cannot sponsor work VISAs at this time.
- Are you 18-27?

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: One location


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