Job type: Full Time (40 hrs/week)
Location: Based at Changemaker Studios Westminster, City of Westminster College Maida Vale Campus, 129 Elgin Avenue, W9 2NR
Time period: Initial 12 months fixed term (with a view to extending)
Salary: £38,350 – £41,350
Apply by: Monday 6th May 2024
Interview Date/s: Tuesday 14th May (1st Round) and Wednesday 22nd May (2nd Round)
Start date: 1st July 2024
Job Description – Are you passionate about working with young people and businesses?
Join an exciting, fast-paced and growing social enterprise as the local manager for our London team focused on building relationships with stakeholders, managing the facilitation team & delivering programmes to young people in the nation’s capital.
We believe every young person can be a changemaker. By developing young people’s skills and confidence, we empower them to shape their lives and the world around them.
Unloc is continuing to grow its presence and impact in London and is looking for a local manager to help support the ambitious two year strategy to increase our presence and impact within local communities in Central London. This individual will also be part of our front line team; delivering innovative and exciting programmes with young people across our network of schools, colleges, businesses and community organisations. We pride ourselves on being innovative, embracing new technology and ensuring that we have young people at the heart of everything we do.
What we offer:
- A fun, driven and passionate team.
- A fixed term post with a view to extending the contract.
- Technology including a MacBook, iPhone and relevant accessories 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, your birthday, and all bank holidays (not already falling within the Christmas break); a total of 39 days holiday.
- Access to PerkBox, an external employee benefits & rewards scheme.
- A generous workplace pension scheme whereby the employer contributes 3% of total employee earnings, rather than the legal-minimum of 3% of employee earnings above the threshold.
- A comprehensive mental health support scheme for you and your immediate family through Health Assured including the Wisdom app.
- A London Zones 1-6 Travelcard to make your working life easier.
- A full year of team-building and CPD opportunities.
All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks returning satisfactory results including an Enhanced DBS Check, a social media check and Right to Work checks. We carry out these checks as an organisation that undertakes ‘regulated activity’ as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (SVG) Act 2006. Please note that such checks will include both spent and unspent convictions. Any candidate with convictions relating to offences against children or other vulnerable people will be deemed as unsuitable to work at Unloc and any job offer will be made on this basis.
The recruitment process is outlined in Unloc’s Safer Recruitment Policy available at https://www.unloc.org.uk/policies-and-procedures/.
Key Responsibilities:
Supporting the implementation of the Unloc London Strategy
- Working in partnership with the Operations Manager to ensure the delivery of the Unloc London strategy. This includes;
- Building new relationships with local schools and colleges.
- Facilitating a free to access enterprise event for local schools in the borough of Westminster.
- Delivery of workshops and presentations, attendance at events to to promote Unloc’s programmes and initiatives to schools, colleges and community groups.
Working in partnership and building new stakeholder relationships
- Liaise and act as a primary point of contact for current key stakeholders to promote Unloc’s work. This will include Local Authorities, Education Trusts, Businesses and Community Interest Groups.
- Implement engagement strategies to build new relationships with key stakeholders through needs assessments and stakeholder surveys to gather insights into the preferences, challenges and priorities.
- Represent Unloc in external meetings, conferences and networking opportunities.
Organise, plan and facilitate entrepreneurial skills and career pathway projects and programmes
- 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 generally involves designing agendas, booking speakers, managing event resources, leading individual sessions, briefing event support staff, liaising with key points of contact and managing attendance from multiple schools, colleges and partners.
- Examples of recent programmes include our Burberry/Verizon Women in Tech programme, the Palo Alto Skills for Success project, and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Changemaker Programme . You can read more about these on our website.
Managing staff
- To line-manage multiple other members of staff in line with Unloc’s People Management Approach. This includes:
- Providing wrap around support to individual team members when they require it.
- Promoting a culture of excellence in programme management and facilitation.
- Ensuring that facilitators you manage operate in line with Unloc’s policies, procedures and practices whilst instilling Unloc’s core team values.
- Maintaining a working knowledge of each staff member’s portfolio and current progress on programmes and providing a source of accountability..
- Holding regular check-in meetings with team members.
- Carrying out formal progress review meetings with team members every 6 months.
- Dealing with staff member HR requests and scenarios such as flexible working, holiday requests, sick days, etc.
- Supporting staff members to make progress against their CPD plans.
- Providing praise and encouragement to staff members, and formally recognising and sharing excellent practice.
Providing regular updates to management
- To provide regular (written or verbal) updates to management on current progress and achievements of individual projects you manage, this includes using and keeping each contract’s monday.com board up-to-date.
Providing additional support and opportunities for students
- Providing support and additional opportunities for young people you work with where possible, including the promotion of Unloc+ (unloc.online/oppportunities)
To support other Unloc projects
- To aid other Unloc projects as and when required by the team (in consultation between you and your line manager).
Person Specification:
Qualifications
Essential: GCSE Maths and English at grade 9-4 (A*-C) (or equivalent).
Essential: A-Levels at grade A*-C (or equivalent).
Desirable: Level 3 ICT qualification.
Desirable: A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent experience).
Desirable: A recognised qualification or chartership in management e.g. CMI
Experience and Knowledge
Essential: Previous work with young people.
Essential: Previous experience of managing other staff members.
Desirable: Previous experience of youth engagement and empowerment.
Desirable: Previous knowledge of the youth sector across London.
Desirable: Previous experience in a social enterprise environment.
Abilities and Skills
Essential: High-level writing skills.
Essential: Ability to network and manage partner relationships.
Essential: Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
Essential: Ability to manage a budget.
Essential: Ability to work as part of a team.
Essential: Ability to work independently.
Desirable: High level of skill when using G Suite (formerly known as Google Apps For Work).
Desirable: Ability to use Facebook, Instagram and X.
Other
Essential: Passion for young people!
Essential: Willingness to undertake staff training and development as required.
Desirable: Car driver with a clean UK driving licence.
