Youth Engagement Officer - Barnsley, United Kingdom - Barnsley FC Community Trust

Description

This postholder will be responsible for the planning, coordination, delivery, and evaluation of our Youth

Engagement projects, including our Premier League Kicks programme. Effectively engaging and recruiting

young people, in and around the Barnsley Community, working closely with schools, partners and stakeholders.


Qualifications (Essential)

• Recognised Level 2 Sport specific certificate i.e UEFA C (FA Level 2, Level
• Multisports/skills
• First Aid Qualification (Or willingness to update)
• Safeguarding Certificate (Or willingness to update)

Desirable

• Level 2 Youth Work certificate/qualification or equivalent
• Level 2 / 3 AfPE
• Level 3 Youth Work or above

Experience ( Essential)

• A minimum of 2 years' experience or equivalent of working with children and young people in a range of environments
• Experience of working with a range of partners
• Experience supervising and mentoring assistants and support staff
• Experience of promoting activities within the community and schools.
• Experience of working effectively with a range of partners including sports clubs and schools Experience of working with a range of partners.

Desirable

• Experience of working with Salesforce or other data management systems
• Experience of developing delivery plans for sports and physical activity projects within local communities.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to evaluate sessions and provide quality feedback to participants, assistants, and support staff.
• Have the ability to effectively monitor and evaluate schemes of work, producing written reports.
• Ability to communicate effectively with participants, parents and people within the community.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, able to prioritise and work within deadlines. Ability to remain calm, efficient, and professional whilst working under pressure.
• Ability to motivate participants, assistants, and support staff.
• Ability to work constructively both on your own and as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Conscientious, honest and reliable Friendly and outgoing personality.
• Enthusiastic and selfmotivated.
• Ability to work independently and supervised if required.
• An understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities issues both within the workplace and the community in general.
• Must be happy to work across evenings and weekends as well as during weekdays.

• Adaptability to change.

• Approachable, committed, organised and resourceful.
• Good judgement of knowing when to seek advice/support.
• An understanding of and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Ability to undertake any necessary travel in connection with the duties of the post.
• Able to work flexible as normal working hours will include evening and weekend work.

Key Accountabilities
To plan, coordinate, deliver, monitor and evaluate the Premier League Kicks programme and other relevant funded programmes.

To be the main point of contact for stakeholders and ensure strong relationships are maintained within Premier League Kicks and wider programmes.

To promote and expand the reach of the Premier League Kicks programme and the wider activities of the Participation and Inclusion department, creatively and proactively.

To ensure Premier League Kicks and youth engagement associated projects and meet and exceed all KPI's within contracts and service level agreements.

To work closely with colleagues across the department and wider Trust, proactively promote signposting opportunities onto Premier League Kicks and other Youth Engagement programmes.

To keep accurate records and registers to enable full completion of all monitoring and evaluation requirements.

To ensure Sales Force data system and other reporting systems are maintained and updated.

To plan, coordinate and deliver celebration events and tournaments to project participants.

To establish and carry out the relevant administration, prepare reports, undertake research, provide briefings, attend meetings and provide management with information as necessary.

To manage workloads, working both independently and collaboratively with a range of colleagues to tight deadlines.

To plan and implement a programme of outreach education and volunteering workshops within hard-to-reach communities.

To be prepared to work evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the role.

To ensure that recruitment of young people onto programmes follows all appropriate safeguards and data capture processes.

To support in ensuring that all staff and volunteers are suitably qualified, DBS checked and adhere to health and safety and safeguarding policies and procedures.

To cover as and when required across departments within the Trust.

To line manage and act as a role model and mentor casual members of staff delivering on the programme.

To ensure all delivery is high quality, engaging and provides the best experience for participants.

To ensure compliance with all Barnsley FC Community Tr