Lead Facilitator (Trainer) in Schools

Beyond Equality is a UK not-for-profit organisation that works with men and boys to promote gender equality, inclusive communities, and healthier relationships. Founded by students from Oxford University, it focuses on gender equality, healthier relationships, and more positive masculinities.

We have worked across schools, universities, workplaces and with professional sports teams and have collectively reached over 100,000 boys and men. We combine expert facilitation with best practices from psychology, anthropology, philosophy, management and economics to deliver pragmatic, evidence-based training and workshops.

By starting vital conversations within schools about the state of gender inequality and masculinities, we hope to help boys become aware of the issues, but crucially, to make them part of the solution. Beyond Equality offers expert training and development for teachers, school staff, and parents and workshops for pupils. We work with all types of schools, at both primary and secondary, including mixed gender schools, all boys, state, grammar, independent and sixth forms.

We create an open, welcoming and interactive environment where students can ask questions, get the chance to reflect and learn about the ideas and attitudes of their peers.

Duties and Responsibilities

Workshop Delivery

Once trained, Lead Facilitators will deliver workshops to school student on the topics of:

• Rethinking Masculinities
• Healthy Relationships
• Mental Health and Emotional Literacy
• Stereotypes, Discrimination and Objectification
• Consent

Feedback on Workshops

• Standard feedback and other basic administration tasks are required after every workshop.

Person Specification

Our dream Lead Facilitators can think creatively about how to reach people through facilitation and are able to create spaces for people to navigate difficult conversations. 

Values

• Demonstrated commitment to compassion
• Commitment to anti-oppression work, including anti-racism and gender justice work.

Skills

• Strong facilitation skills with groups of young peopl, and the ability to create courageous spaces for individual and group reflections.
• Capable of guiding young people through new and challenging ideas in creative and engaging ways.

Knowledge

• Understand the importance of putting adequate time into preparing for a workshop in advance, and who can think on their feet
• Knowledge of gendered socialisation & stereotypes, social norms & group dynamics, power dynamics (particularly systems of privilege/oppression, including race and class oppression)
• Awareness of the challenges surrounding masculinity in today's society

Experience

• Experience in facilitating group learning at a professional level (including youth work in community organisations)
• Experience of working with young people
• Training or experience in these areas; Youth Work, Coaching or Mentoring, Allyship, Healthy Relationships, Mental well-being training, Gender/Masculinities Workshops or Safeguarding
• Experience working in anti-oppression, sexual violence prevention, masculinities or mental wellbeing.

Geographic Location

• We are currently recruiting for Lead Facilitators based in London and pupil workshops will be delivered within the London region. Future opportunities may also be available to deliver workshops at other locations within the UK.

Development

Onboarding/Training

• All onboarding is paid
• All Lead Facilitators are required to attend an training course (dates TBC)
• All Lead Facilitators will be trained & observed to deliver relevant workshops 
• You will begin by co-facilitating with a more experienced facilitator.

Workshop delivery 

• Beyond Equality prides itself on a culture of reflection, iterative improvement and learning 
• Lead facilitators will have access to the Beyond Equality ongoing learning and training, including monthly events, resources and learning platforms.

Equal Opportunities 

Beyond Equality strives to be an inclusive employer. We want to provide a working environment, and a recruitment and hiring process, that is welcoming, accessible and supportive for everybody - including and especially those who are marginalised in society. With this in mind, we’ve worked to create an application and recruitment process that is as straightforward and transparent as possible. We welcome applicants with non-traditional educational backgrounds, and only ask for degree-level qualifications where this is absolutely necessary for a role. We appreciate the value of varied experience and fresh perspectives - if you are not sure whether you are qualified or experienced enough for a role, but you think you meet the person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. We particularly welcome applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people, women, new or expectant parents/carers and disabled people. 

We aim to share most interview questions and tasks five working days in advance of the interview to give applicants time to prepare, with extra time available for disabled applicants upon request. You are able to submit longer answers by voice note emailed to the contact address, please note this on the form. If there is anything else we can do to make the application and/or interview process more accessible for you, we want to hear about it, and will do our best to meet your requirements - please reach out via the contact email address in the job pack for the role you are applying for and tell us what you need.

We are a diverse organisation and we appreciate the value of lived experience. When our team members want to draw on their own lived experience to inform aspects of their work, we do our best to support them - but we’ll never expect or require you to draw on your own experiences if you don’t want to, or to do extra work on the basis of any aspect of your identity.