Youth Engagement Coordinator

Youth Engagement Coordinator focuses on delivering engaging and relevant activities and programmes on a daily basis to young people.

What the role involves

• Delivering engaging and relevant activities and programmes on a daily basis to young people.
• Supporting, mentor, coach and ‘walk alongside’ individual young people in their pursuit of their personal goals.
• Supporting the delivery of activities that involve the wider community, including at our adjacent youth centre.
• Engage with third parties to enable them to deliver specialist support and activities to young people.
• Supporting access for them into agencies and services appropriate to the young people’s needs.
• Actively support job search, training, and volunteering opportunities with young people who are not in education, employment, or training.

Skills and requirements

• Demonstrable experience of programme delivery in youth, adult or community-based service.
• Experience of working with young people who have experienced trauma, poor emotional wellbeing or substance misuse will be useful.
• Ability to react positively and effectively when faced with unwanted high-risk behaviours from young people.
• An understanding of safeguarding principles and procedures.

Confirmed role details

• Some flexibility needed for occasional weekend and Bank Holiday working.
• Employer pension contribution.
• 25 days holiday FTE, increasing with length of service up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Pay: £23,810 per annum.

Additional role context

• 37.5 per week Monday to Friday.

Known job details

• Pay: £23,810 per annum