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Are you passionate about working with young people and have excellent project management skills?
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Join an exciting, fast-paced and growing social enterprise as our Programme Facilitator (Entrepreneurial Skills & Career Pathways), with responsibility for the project management and delivery of Unloc’s enterprise courses, enterprise events, inspiring speaker sessions and our bespoke career pathways projects across the Unloc network.
Unloc was founded in 2013 by award-winning young leaders and advocates Hayden Taylor and Ben Dowling. Our mission is to empower young people to be innovative changemakers who seek to build stronger communities and sustainable businesses. We develop young people’s skills, enhance their potential and boost their determination to succeed. This is encapsulated in our ‘Developing Young Potential’ tag-line. We work towards our mission by delivering inspiring educational programmes in our network of 100+ schools and colleges.
Our agile team, based at our central HQ in Portsmouth are looking for a dedicated individual passionate about supporting and developing young people’s entrepreneurial skills and promoting alternative career pathways. We are passionate about giving young people the opportunity to be entrepreneurial and creative problem solvers whilst understanding all career pathways available to them. We pride ourselves on being innovative, embracing new technology and ensuring that we have young people at the heart of everything we do. This approach is summarised in our 7 pillars:
- Developing young people’s confidence and aspiration
- Tailoring programmes to meet young people’s needs
- Investing in young people’s skills
- Engaging young people through innovative approaches
- Championing young people’s successes
- Working closely with partners
- Demonstrating youth leadership with a dynamic team
What we offer:
- A fun, driven and passionate team.
- A fixed term post with a view to extending the contract.
- Technology including a MacBook and a mobile phone to make your working life easier.
- Growth: we invest in individuals and are an ambitious organisation.
- The opportunity to work with amazing young people.
- A flexible approach to working life and 28 days holiday plus a week at Christmas and all bank holidays (not already falling within the Christmas break); a total of 38 days holiday.
- Access to PerkBox, an external employee benefits & rewards scheme. See https://www.perkbox.co.uk/goldcard/deals for a full list.
Specific Responsibilities:
(with support and oversight from the Operations Manager)
Organise, plan and facilitate enterprise courses and ‘bootcamp’ sessions
- To organise, plan and facilitate inspiring weekly enterprise courses and ‘bootcamp’ sessions. These fun-filled weekly or ‘bootcamp’ sessions are practical, creative and structured courses that cover the key skills and knowledge associated with starting a business. Learning is geared towards creating their own businesses, projects and ideas with students pitching their concepts and business plans to a panel of judges at the end of the programme. This will involve liaising with key points of contact to build and agree course timings, prepare resources for the weekly/full day ‘bootcamp’ sessions and deliver these sessions.
Organise, plan and facilitate enterprise days and events
- To organise, plan and facilitate inspiring one-off enterprise days and events for schools, colleges and businesses. These fun-filled events are designed to allow young people to explore entrepreneurship and creative problem solving. Young people hear from an entrepreneur, take part in skills workshops and undertake a creative entrepreneurial challenge – all before pitching their team’s idea back to a panel of judges. This will involve liaising with key points of contact to build a tailored agenda, prepare resources for the events, brief the team in advance and be the lead member of staff on event days.
Organise, plan and facilitate inspiring speakers sessions
- To organise, plan and facilitate inspiring speakers sessions and events for schools and colleges. These sessions are inspirational talks followed by short workshop sessions to help inspire young people to consider self-employment as a career pathway. This will involve liaising with key points of contact to build an agenda, prepare resources for the session(s) and lead on delivering talks.
Organise, plan and facilitate entrepreneurial skills and career pathway projects
- Organise, plan and facilitate bespoke enterprise and career pathways events (with support from the Operations Manager) for individual businesses, grant giving bodies, schools & colleges. This will involve building programmes that meet the individual needs of the commissioning organisation.
Working with key partners
- Liaise and work in partnership with key programme sponsors, including involving them in event planning, inviting them to attend relevant events and providing them with programme updates. This will include businesses, Local Authorities, schools and community interest groups.
To review & update Unloc’s core enterprise course
- Work in partnership with the Content & Quality Manager and other Programme Facilitators to review and update Unloc’s enterprise course delivered to schools and colleges across the Unloc network.
Providing regular updates to the Operations Manager
- To provide regular (written or verbal) updates to the Operations Manager on current progress and achievements of individual programmes you manage, this includes using and keeping the Unloc project management tracking software up-to-date .
Providing additional support and opportunities for students
- Providing support and additional opportunities for young people you work with where possible.
To support other Unloc projects and programmes
- To aid other Unloc projects and programmes as and when required by the team (in consultation with your line manager).
Person Specification:
Qualifications
Essential:
- GCSE Maths and English at grade A*-C / 9-4 (or equivalent).
- Two A-Levels at grade A*-C (or equivalent).
Desirable:
- Level 2 ICT qualification.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent industry experience).
Experience and Knowledge
Essential:
- Previous work with young people.
- Previous experience of working in the business world and/or self employment (in some way).
Desirable:
- Previous knowledge of the education sector.
- Previous experience of stakeholder management.
Abilities and Skills
Essential:
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- High-level communication skills including written and verbal communication.
Desirable:
- High level of skill when using G Suite (formerly known as Google Apps for Work).
- Ability to maintain a professional online image including social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. This includes promoting Unloc’s work and opportunities for young people.
Other
Essential:
- Willingness to undertake staff training and development as required. This could include the opportunity to undertake a degree level apprenticeship.
- Willingness to travel across the Solent region on a frequent basis and occasional travel across the London, Cambridgeshire region.
Desirable:
- A full UK driving licence.
