Youth Voice

Job description

**The YWF Youth Voice Coordinator Role**

This role offers an exciting opportunity to coordinate and lead YWF’s revamped youth engagement initiatives. Collaborating closely with our Youth Voice Consultant and the entire team, you will bring passion, creativity, professionalism and ambition to implement our youth voice plans. These plans are informed by a recent review and are supported by a theory of change. Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in amplifying this work and the voices of young people involved with YWF through our social media platforms.

This position also provides avenues for professional growth and development. By directly overseeing interns engaged in YWF activities, you will gain valuable experience in staff development and play a crucial role in nurturing the next generation of youth leaders Furthermore, you will acquire experience in YWF’s broader organisational functions, creating opportunities to leverage your expertise in youth engagement to contribute to strategic and operational decision-making within the organisation.

**Key roles and responsibilities**

**Youth Outreach and Recruitment**
- Undertake outreach and recruitment efforts to attract a diverse group of young people from the YWF membership to participate in YWF's engagement initiatives (currently known as the Young Ambassadors) - working closely with members and key stakeholders to do so.
- Ensure these strategies and communication channels are youth-focussed, inclusive and accessible.

**YWF Youth Engagement Strategy Development & Coordination**
- Help develop and coordinate YWF's youth engagement and youth voice initiatives including engaging the Young Ambassadors in a YWF engagement program, workshops, internships, trusteeships, panels, peer-research, grant-making, member visits etc.
- Ensure young people are supported to engage in outward-facing opportunities - events, social media, co-production, member visits.
- Work with the youth voice consultant, young people and key stakeholders to help further develop practices that promote youth empowerment, both within the organisation, the membership and the borough.
- Support internal pathways for the Young Ambassadors into YWF Internships and external pathways into supported paid opportunities within the borough e.g. research, youth consultancy etc.

**Social Media**
- Work closely with the Marketing & Engagement Manager to communicate the voices and work of young people within YWF through various social media platforms - including supporting young people to gather content.

**Internship Oversight**
- Support and coordinate YWF interns - providing guidance, mentorship and direction to ensure effective program implementation - working to integrate and support interns within different areas of the team.

**Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration**
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including young people, members, staff, volunteers and partner organisations to share best practices, support collaboration and drive forward impactful strategies.

**Project Management**
- Ensure clear documentation, processes, and policies are in place to support the efficiency and effectiveness of YWF youth engagement initiatives, including supporting the Youth Voice Consultant to develop role descriptions, session plans, and risk assessments and safeguarding.

**Grant Making**
- Support the Grants Manager in delivering a youth-led grants programme, led by a group of young grant makers

**Measuring Impact**
- Work with key members of the team, young people and stakeholders to ensure the ongoing effectiveness of YWF’s youth voice initiatives.
- Work with the team to quality - assure YWF’s programmes to ensure programmes meet the needs of young people

**What we are looking for**

**Skills**:
**Youth Engagement**: Proficiency in designing and delivering creative and dynamic youth engagement initiatives, including outreach, recruitment, and sessions. _(Essential)_

**Session planning and delivery**:Able to design engaging and creative sessions with young people, that use different methods to keep them engaged, safe and informed. _(Essential)_

**Social Media**: Familiarity with social media platforms and digital communication tools for amplifying youth voices and promoting engagement initiatives. _(Essential)_

**Project Management**: Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple small projects simultaneously. _(Essential)_
- **Communication**: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with diverse young people, stakeholders and team members. _(Essential)_
- **Collaboration**: Ability to work collaboratively in a team and membership environment, fostering positive relationships and driving collective action towards common goals. _(Essential)_
- **People Management**:Skills in developing team members - in this case interns through formal line management _(Desirable)_
- **Monitorin