Life Champions Regional Representative - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Fight for Peace

Fight for Peace

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job title:
Life Champions Regional Representative

Location:
Pat Benson Community Sports Foundation with 50% local travel

Hours: 6-months, 12 hours per week,

Salary:
£1,000 monthly

Application Deadline: 27th Of April 2024

Background and context:

Fight for Peace was founded in the Maré favela, Rio de Janeiro in 2000 as a small boxing gym to provide a safe space and support in a community where increasing numbers of children were being employed by armed drug gangs.

Fight for Peace London Academy opened in 2007 as a response to a wave of knife violence in Newham, and has since become an international youth development organisation, with an office in Jamaica and global impact through the training of over 220 organisations in 26 countries.

In April 2022 Fight for Peace became one of 120 Sport England Systems Partners.

The aim is to deliver system-wide change against Sport England's 10-year strategy, Uniting the Movement, to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country.

One of the goals of this programme is to increase engagement of under-represented and under-served groups in sports and physical activity.

Fight for Peace believes that it can be done through
championing clubs and coaches as assets for social change, and champion the skills of coaches.

About the Life Champions Course

Purpose of the role

The long term aim of this initiative is to enable sports coaches to effectively engage with young people experiencing inequalities, particularly from Black and Asian communities and women.

Fight for Peace is working for everyone to have the opportunity to engage in physical activity for improved health, wellbeing, and personal development outcomes.

Recruiting and promoting the Life Champions (LC) training course within their region.
Running the monthly live online sessions for all LC coaches in coordination with other regional reps.
Organising local informative and social events between LC coaches i.e. guest speakers from YOT, practising some tools, data collection tools, learning from each other etc.
Facilitating exchange meetings between LC coaches
Organising networking events (i.e. coaches meet YOT workers, staff from CAMHS, other youth workers)
Mapping of all services for young people (services that B&MA clubs could sign post their members to) and share this with LC coaches relevant to their area.
Creating partnerships with local service providers facilitating/formalising referral pathways between clubs and other youth services
Collecting data for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning purposes

Other when possible

Signposting boxing and martial arts clubs to join the Alliance (when appropriate)
Accessing discounts and membership deals for LC coaches
Promoting all other initiatives / resources from the Systems Partner project (i.e. youth leadership resources, personal development resources etc)
Local level influencing via local social media handles/channels.

Personal Specification
Essential

Minimum of 21years of age
Must currently be an active coach in their chosen sport in the desired region.
Experience of working with young people (up to 25 years old) experiencing inequality.
At least 2years coaching experience with groups of young people.
Excellent communication and networking skills
Proven project management skills
Multitasking and meeting deadlines
1:1 mentoring experience with others

Desirable

Qualifications or experience of youth work
Experience in event planning.
Experience providing mentoring and guidance to other coaches.
Coached young people to become champions in their sports.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding, Equality and Inclusion:

Fight for Peace will only ask an individual to provide details of sensitive information, including convictions and cautions, that it is legally entitled to know about.

Most of our staff and volunteers will be in Positions of Trust and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check must be completed by anyone who meets the government's definition of 'Regulated Activity' or 'Regular Activity' within our activities and services.

We do not want this to be a barrier to those who have the potential to add great value to the work we do.

All information disclosed for the purposes of employment will be used for the sole purpose of assessing whether an individual is suitable and appropriate to work with our members and/or if any specific arrangements around supervision and support might be required.

All information gathered as part of our recruitment processes will be treated sensitively and equitably, with confidentiality strictly maintained.

Right to work in the UK is essential.

Job Types:
Part-time, Freelance

Salary:
£1,000.00 per month

Expected hours: 12 per week

Benefits: