Skills Booster Coordinator

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East Midlands — Full Time / Fixed Term Contract
£20,750 - £24,350

Position Description

Ingeus is all about people, our mission is to enable better lives. We specialise in delivering employment, health, justice and youth services, creating new and improved ways to support everyone daily and drive social change.
Our Youth Services programme works in line with the government led NCS initiative and offers a unique opportunity for participants to build life skills such as effective communication, team building and independence in preparation for their next stages of adulthood.
The Skills Booster Coordinator role is an exciting opportunity to plan, deliver and manage a suite of personal development sessions to young people across our network of educational settings. The role will involve working in a fast-paced environment, engaging a diverse mix of young people, building relationships with, and managing a caseload of educational settings. You will be expected to deliver a suite of engagement sessions tailored to suit the needs of the educational establishment, working closely with the Skills Booster Management Team.
The successful candidate will be experienced in youth work delivery, account management, and be creative with the ability to adapt session content to suit to the demographic of students across the board.
You will be involved in some interesting day to day responsibilities, such as:

• Engaging with young people in an educational setting
• Planning and delivering quality sessions in a school environment across a suite of subjects
• Ensuring the safeguarding of young people
• Leading on the delivery of Teacher Meetings to effectively plan school support engagement
• Data entry onto CRM system including session evaluations within required timeframes
• Responsibility of all mainstreams, non-mainstream, college, and non-school channels
• Designing and implementing a suite of engagement sessions
• Engaging directly with stakeholders such as school leads and external partners
• Acting as role model and mentor in youth engagement and delivery activities
• Seasonal staff responsibilities, monitoring and evaluating their skills to support the programme

We are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable team player with excellent communication skills who has experience designing and delivering activities and presentations that engage young people, someone who can work under pressure and manage multiple priorities at the same time. Experience working within the youth sector through either NCS programmes, schools, youth camps or similar is a must.
Due to the nature of the role, all candidates are expected to have a full, clean drivers licence with access to a car, as this role will involve travelling to location sites. Overnight hotel stays may be required at times.This is a fixed term position until the end of December 2021 and will be based across East Midlands. On offer is a salary between £20,750 - £24,350, depending on experience.
Why join us?
As an Ingeus employee, you will have access to a range of benefits such as 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, life insurance, private medical care, company pension, online discount shopping, additional leave for personal development and community volunteering, the opportunity to buy those extra perks such as extra annual leave, critical illness cover, dental insurance and discounted gym membership, wellbeing services and more.
At Ingeus, we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment, including a positive working environment. We are a Disability Confident Leader, a Mindful Employer, a Stonewall Champion, and we’re committed to the Armed Forces Covenant.
For more information about Ingeus, the services we provide, a more detailed benefits overview and how you can become part of the team, please visit https://ingeus.com/uk/work-for-us.

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Job no:
495785

Applications close:
07 Sep 2021

Interested?

If so, please submit your CV. We look forward to receiving your application.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract