Project Officer - Youth Mentoring

This is a role which we hope will match the Charity’s aims for growth in the coming months as we aim to achieve the key milestones set out in our vision and strategy.

The role will report directly to the Development Manager within the Inclusion team.

Project Breakdown aims to nurture positive change in participants, improving behaviour, facilitating personal development, and decreasing risk factors in young people whose lives have often been shaped by crime, family dysfunction or learning disabilities. The project will offer a package of mentoring in one-to-one and group settings. The Project Officer will be working in partnership with The Pavilion Study Centre to shape holistic mentoring programmes for participants.

If you are excited by the idea of working with our Foundation team, we’d love to hear from you.

DETAILS

·         JOB TITLE: Youth Mentor Project Officer                                       

·         LOCATION: StoneX Stadium, Greenlands Lane, Hendon, London, NW4 1RL & The Pavillion Barnet, N20 9DX

·         CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

·         REPORTING TO: Development Manager

·         SALARY: £25,000-£28,000 (subject to experience) per annum

·         KEY STAKEHOLDERS:  All internal departments and external stakeholders

The role will include leading and developing supportive relationships with young pupils by engaging them in long term mentoring and creating a powerful curriculum of workshops and discussions. As part of the workshop creation, particular focus should be paid to topics such as resilience, personal responsibility, problem solving skill and anger management. The successful candidate will have both knowledge and experience in developing and delivering workshops or life-skills classes with young people, they will also be able to look for collaboration opportunities between mentoring sessions and project partners. Ideally, the candidate will lead weekly group sessions which will support the 1:1 mentoring activities and provide an opportunity to discuss personal challenges and topical issues.

Key roles and responsibilities to include but not limited to:

1.       Develop and deliver sessions with children and young people which supports them to address violent or negative behaviour at home, in school or in the community

2.       Lead 1:1 mentoring sessions with young people

3.       Develop a curriculum of impactful workshops and coordinate their delivery

4.       Keep accurate files and records to produce impactful evidence

5.       Build strong, productive relationships with participants and partners

The successful candidate will have the following:

Skills

• An ability to motivate, inspire and mentor people towards achieving their goals
• Be comfortable delivering 1:1 and group sessions, face-to-face
• An ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a range of partners
• Ability to monitor, evaluate and assess project performance
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of a team
• Good judgement and knowing when to seek advice or support

Experience – (Desirable)

·         Lived experience of the challenges being faced by young people at risk of harmful behaviours

·         Experience of working with children and young people who have shown negative or offending behaviours

• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding requirements when working with young people and vulnerable adults

·         Youth Mentoring or similar working background

·         Mentoring, Youth Counselling qualification

BENEFITS

Compensation

·         The Foundation conduct an annual pay review. However, proactive pay increases will be implemented to reflect growing responsibilities

Working from home

·         This role will involve being on site at The Pavillion at least 3 days a week. We generally all work from the office on Monday and Thursdays. This keeps team collaboration and engagement high. 

·         If you are normally office-based, you can still work from home occasionally - as long as you have a good internet connection and a private, quiet space which allows you to do your best work

Holiday

·         25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays - please use them all!

Health & Wellbeing

·         Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health

Sports & Entertainment

·         After work events including PT, football and tag rugby

·         Ballot tickets for Saracens Home Games

·         Ballot tickets for International Rugby Games

·         Opportunities for discounted tickets to Saracens games and events for you and your family

Family

·         Enhanced paid maternity, paternity, adoption, or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for at least 26 weeks

·         Life assurance with Zurich

Commuting

·         We’re a member of the cycle-to-work scheme