Youth Voice and Participation Worker - (Internship)
The youth voice and participation worker (Internship) role is a twelve-month paid internship to begin during March 2024, supported by the Jack Petchey Foundation - https://www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/opportunities/internships/
You must be ready to take up post by Monday 24th March 2025.
This role is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and receipt of two successful references.
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Job title: |
Youth Voice Participation Worker - Internship |
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Responsible to: |
Operations Manager |
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Location: |
Harrow (some travel to surrounding boroughs may be required) |
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Job Purpose: |
To work alongside a team of youth workers to develop youth voice initiatives whilst delivering transformational youth work. |
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Hours: |
35 hours per week (including occasional evenings and weekends) |
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Duration: |
Fixed Term (12 months) |
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Salary: |
£25,207.00 (£13.85 per hour/35 hrs week) |
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Closing Date: |
Monday 3rd February 2025 (9 am). |
The Role
Ignite Youth www.igniteyouth.org.uk is a progressive youth work charity based in the London Borough of Harrow, who have been providing help and support to young people for over 23 years.
Ignite is a Christian charity, working equally with young people of all faiths and none. We are faith based but not faith biased!
We are looking for someone who has a passion for empowering young people to drive change and
is enthusiastic about developing a career in the youth/charity sector to join our friendly team.
Experience from unpaid or voluntary activities is valued!
In this role you will develop transformational work with at-risk and marginalised young people, leading our youth voice initiatives and ensuring their perspectives shape decisions locally and beyond.
Working alongside a small team of seven youth workers and five admin staff, your main responsibilities will be to:
Empower young people to express their views creating platforms for them to share their experiences and spark meaningful change.
Understand the needs of young people, develop and trial innovative youth-led approaches and measure the impact of Ignite Youth's programs.
Join us in making young voices impossible to ignore!
Benefits
In return, you can expect a salary in line with the London living wage, support and training, a generous leave allowance of 25 days and staff pension scheme.
You will receive an extra training bursary of £1,000 for approved training. You will also be matched with a mentor from another organisation to support you in your professional development.
About the Jack Petchey Internship Programme:
This programme will involve you attending a launch conference, four professional development workshops through the year and a celebration event at the end of the programme.
The Jack Petchey Internship Programme training and events will take place in person in London, and you will be expected to take full part in this programme alongside your role at Ignite Youth.
How to Apply:
If you’d like to be part of the Ignite team than please read the full job description below and send your CV along with a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining how you meet the points included in the person specification. To: office@igniteyouth.org.uk before 9am on Monday 3rd February 2025. Interviews are scheduled for the week beginning 10th February 2025.
JOB DESCRIPTION
This fixed-term, 1-year post is made possible through the Jack Petchey Internship Programme https://www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/opportunities/internships/, which you will be part of with 20 other interns from different youth organisations in London and Essex.
You will develop transformational work with at-risk and marginalised young people aged 11-25 helping them to amplify their voices and transform their communities for the better. In this role, you’ll work closely with young people, creating platforms for them to share their experiences, influence policy, and spark meaningful change in their communities and further afield, in-line with Ignite’s vision, mission and values.
Responsible to: Operations Manager
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1 Duties and key responsibilities
Youth Voice
Empower young people to express their views and influence decision-making processes.
- Understand the needs of young people, develop and trial innovative youth-led approaches and measure the impact of Ignite Youth's programs.
- Develop our existing media platforms e.g. a podcast, Instagram or a film.
Youth Work
- Develop relationships with young people aged 11-25 across Harrow and encourage them to engage in our daily positive, diversionary activities such as our boxing, mixed sports, and music projects.
- Invite young people to meet for 1:1 mentoring sessions to encouraging them to make positive life choices and re-engage with education or employment.
- Develop and grow our youth offer with support from your Manager and the wider team.
- Carry out outreach work with our experienced youth workers in known Harrow hot spots for young people.
Monitoring and Evaluation, Admin & data collection
- Report on projects that you work on and enter all data onto Ignite’s electronic management information system to monitor the impact and effectiveness of the projects and outcomes achieved.
- Provide case studies that will show the impact of your work and achievements of young people.
- Work in line with data protection, maintaining confidential service-user records of interventions and contact details in line with Ignite’s case management policy.
Personal/Professional Development and Team work
- Maintain and improve competencies through continuous professional development. You will have a training budget of £1,000 to be supported to achieve this.
- Attend and prepare for regular line management meetings and team meetings.
- Take responsibility for self-care and managing vicarious trauma, promoting the importance of self-care both internally and externally.
- Be flexible and carry out other associated duties as may arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the position.
- Abide by all the organizational policies, codes of conduct and practices.
- Support and promote inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- Treat with confidentiality any personal, private or sensitive information about individual organisations and or clients or staff and project data.
2 Person Specification
Personal Attributes & Other Requirements
- A desire to amplify the voice of young people.
- Interested in developing a career in the youth sector.
- Commitment to the core values of Ignite: love, compassion, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, and self-control.
- Willingness to travel across Harrow to outreach appointments and partnership offices.
- Interested and motivated to further own skills and knowledge.
Knowledge
- An understanding of the issues facing young people.
Experience
- Experience of paid work and/or volunteering with groups of young people.
- Building effective and transformational relationships with young people.
- (Desirable but not essential) Experience of undertaking research, analysing data and presenting data
- (Desirable but not essential) Experience of social action or campaigning or an interest in gaining more experience in using research to campaign.
- (Desirable but not essential) Experience of co-creating and co-developing opportunities and programmes with young people.
Skills and Abilities
Ability to work in an empathetic young person-centered way.
- Ability to problem-solve difficult situations and deal with them calmly and effectively.
- Self-motivated with confidence to work alone but can also work co-operatively and flexibly as part of a team.
- Good communication skills.
- Accurate note taking and ability to summarise information to identify key themes.
- IT skills at a level that supports report writing, email, internet and use of a database.
Education/Training/Qualifications
No specific education/training/qualification but a desire of developing a career in Youth work is required.