Enterprise and Employability Coordinator
Salary £ 30,679 per annum
The Way Youth Zone
Vacancy listed 16/04/2025
Application deadline 09/05/2025
Details
JOB PURPOSE:  
  
To take a lead responsibility for the delivery of The Way Youth Zone’s Enterprise and Employability offer, ensuring all young people have access to exciting enterprise projects and the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge to improve their employability. The post will deliver “The Way 2 Work” in partnership with NIS Group, the main sponsor of the programme. The post also involves the delivery of a targeted programme to support young people not currently in education, employment or training into positive destinations.  


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – DETAILED  
 
To manage the coordination of “The Way 2 Work” from: 

  • Recruitment 
  • Delivery 
  • Retention 

  • To lead on the delivery, and ongoing review and evaluation, of The Way Youth Zone’s Employability Programme and offer, “The Way 2 Work”, working closely with the Youth Services Managers to ensure projects take place and contribute towards the core Youth Zone offer 
  • To work in partnership with the employability team at NIS Group; facilitating mutually beneficial relationships with local employers. 
  • Develop meaningful relationships with young people to support them, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, in order to achieve positive outcomes. 
  • To manage our employability programmes which may differ from year to year. 
  • Provide personalised support and high-quality advice to enable young people to overcome personal and practical barriers, based on individual needs. 
  • Deliver in line with the programmes test and learn approach by developing and testing new and varied approaches to find out the impact in progressing different young people toward employment. 
  • Implement effective and timely reviews in line with the programmes monitoring requirements. 
  • Job brokering for students, working with local employers and patrons to secure live opportunities for our young people. 
  • Carry out regular review and evaluation of the enterprise and employability offer, including capturing the outcomes and positive impacts, recording soft and hard outcomes, presenting case studies and celebrating the achievements of young people. 
  • To achieve KPIs set by the Board, CEO, Head of Youth Work & Partnerships and external funders, including for example, progression into employment and training or the development of employability skills. 
  • To link into national and local initiatives such as “equalex”, making these available to The Way Youth Zone members and creating more opportunities for young people. 
  • To support the delivery of accreditations such as PEARL or BTEC to young people, including taking responsibility for related administration. 
  • To manage, train, support and develop part-time youth workers and volunteers to contribute to “The Way 2 Work”. 
  • To work with the Youth Zone staff to identify opportunities and funding for additional experiences and openings for young people relating to employability. 
  • To develop effective joint working with schools and other agencies to ensure a holistic approach in service delivery to young people, including representing The Way Youth Zone at meetings with partner agencies. 
  • To support sessions across The Way Youth Zone offer as required.
  • Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested by management. 
 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – GENERAL  
 
  • Be a role model for young people and present a positive “can do” attitude 
  • Take personal responsibility for own actions 
  • Commit to a culture of continuous improvement 
  • Work within the performance framework of The Way Youth Zone.  
  • Represent The Way Youth Zone positively and effectively in all dealings with internal colleagues, and external partners 
  • Comply with all policies and procedures, with reference to safeguarding, codes of conduct health and safety and equality and diversity to ensure all activities are accessible  
  • To be alert to issues of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring the welfare and safety of Youth Zone members is promoted and safeguarded, and to report any child protection concerns to the designated Child Protection Officers using the safeguarding policies, procedures, and practice (training to be provided) 
  • To assist with any promotional activities and visits that take place at the Youth Zone. 
  • To actively promote the Youth Zone and positively contribute towards increasing the Youth Zone membership. 
Benefits

Access to amazing facilities including a fully equipped gym
Access to Charity workers discount scheme
33 days holiday including bank holidays and an extra day off on your birthday (pro rata)
Access to free therapy and counselling
Training opportunities and CPD delivered in-house or by partner organisations - including First Aid, Safeguarding and Health and Safety
Career development opportunities
Subsidised food from our in-house canteen

Notes

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