Youth Project Coordinator (Y’s Girls)

JOB PURPOSE:  

You will work together to ensure the mentors and young people work to build the young person’s resilience, empower them to lead fulfilling lives, and improve their overall mental health and well-being.

This post is part of the national Y’s Girls Mentoring programme and will involve working closely with colleagues in YMCA England & Wales, YMCA Scotland and those other YMCAs across the UK who are delivering the programme.  It will also involve working locally with colleagues in social work, education and local grass-roots organisations to develop mentoring pathways and community engagement to enable girls locally to access the programme. The post holder will recruit, train and support a team of volunteer mentors to prevent vulnerable young girls from developing mild to moderate mental health difficulties by engaging them in a range of positive activities. The role involves engagement with other professionals to ensure appropriate referrals and appropriate monitoring of safety and progress throughout the mentoring relationship.

The post holder will work as part of a team delivering a range of youth work interventions, support and guidance. They will contribute to the national Y’s Girls programme to record and monitor outcomes and to deliver best practice and engage in peer support, as well as work towards developing the evidence base for mentoring in the field of early and effective intervention across the UK.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Project management. Specific responsibilities:

1. Recruitment, training and support for a team of volunteer mentors for the Y’sGirls Mentoring Programme
2. Delivery of training, recruitment, support and development for volunteer mentors.
3. Managing a caseload of young people
4. Planning and facilitating group work sessions for young people and volunteer mentors
5. To ensure 100% data required is collected and recorded on to relevant reporting databases.
6. To support and engage with the local and national programme evaluation and development of best practice.
7. Play a key role with professional partners in the identification, referral and monitoring of young people and ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are upheld.
8. Effective management of all aspects of the project including administration, budgeting and data collection.
9. Effective implementation and management of best practice policies and procedures.
10. To actively support service user involvement in the development of services.

2. To have significant input into the performance of the Team and organisation. Specific responsibilities:

a) To have input into, and work to Key Performance Indicators and specified outcomes, ensuring they are realistic and relevant to the organisational and project aims

b) To work to the organisational and project Aims and Objectives, as well as Training Needs Analysis

d) To facilitate a monitoring process for checking paperwork, files and risk assessments – both electronic and paper.

e) To keep records, minutes of meetings, documents and paperwork in an accessible format for the department

f) To build and maintain good working relationships with appropriate professionals in voluntary and statutory agencies and to ensure the Association participates in local forums and operates with good practice.

3. To carry out other duties that reasonably falls within the scope of the post. Specific

responsibilities:

a) Responding to emergencies / crisis.

b) Attendance at meetings deemed appropriate by the Support Services Manager and YMCA England and Wales

d) Participation in training and supervision.

e) You must work constructively with other departments within the YMCA Cardiff Group.

f) Assisting with jobs that usually fall to another member of staff, but in whose absence, failure to carry out the work would present a risk or offence to others or would be detrimental to the organisation’s service provision.

g) To be able to respect the Christian ethos of the YMCA and uphold its values