Youth Programmes & Outreach Coordinator

3 Days a week (Wednesday-Friday)

Global Generation is looking for a Youth Programmes and Outreach Coordinator who is
passionate about engaging young people and local communities in reaching their full potential
and creating positive social and environmental change. In this role, you will co-lead on the
outreach and engagement of local communities, especially with a focus on involving and
recruiting young people, as well as planning and facilitation of land-based, cooking and
creative workshops. You will particularly focus on working with communities in Islington as we
increase our engagement initiatives towards the co-build of our permanent community garden in
King’s Cross (which sits on the Islington side), due to start this summer.

Main Duties and Responsibilities 

The two main areas of the role are:

1. Outreach, engagement and recruitment

• Lead on the recruitment and engagement of young people throughout the year,
  primarily through schools, colleges, community groups, local referral agencies, and local
  network meetings and events
• Develop a diverse range of engaging outreach / recruitment materials, including
  social media content for the purposes of showcasing our work and inspiring other young
  people to join
• Create and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of audiences, including
  young people, parents, local community groups and businesses
• Inspire young people to participate via assemblies, talks, outreach workshops and
  follow up phone calls
• Assist young people and their parents through the sign-up process from initial
  expression of interest to joining our programmes, through being in regular contact in the
  ways that work best for young people
• Retention of young people through active engagement in person and phone calls
  and/or texts prior to each session
• Attend local forums, actively participate in networks of local organisations, and
  build relationships with organisations and local people to engage them in the co-build of
  the new permanent garden

2. Programme Planning, Coordination and Facilitation

• Work closely with the Youth Programmes team in planning, facilitating and
  evaluating sessions with young people
• Inspire and support young people to lead on their own socially and environmentally
  impactful projects in the local area
• Work alongside the wider Global Generation teams (kitchen, garden, natural build)
  and in partnership with other local organisations and businesses to enhance the
  opportunities available to young people
• Document and evaluate the youth programmes you are working on using creative means
  through a wide range of approaches, incorporating quantitative and qualitative
  data
• Report to funders in a range of formats depending on what is needed
• The programmes you will coordinate and co-facilitate are:
• Friday Night Out: Fortnightly after-school cooking programme (4:00-6:30pm),
  engaging children (8-12 year olds) in discovering the joys of seed to plate, seasonal and
  sustainable food, growing, harvesting and cooking their own produce. You will work
  alongside one of our chefs so do not need to be a chef, though an interest in sustainable
  food and gardening experience is desirable
• Generator programme: Regular after-school workshops and experiences for young
  people aged 13+, incorporating a range of approaches and hands-on and reflective activities
  to support the holistic development of young people and encourage them to take social and
  environmental action in their communities
• Partnership with Heatherwick Studio as part of a collaborative Young Inspirers
  programme, linking local school children with opportunities in their studio

You will also work with the Youth & Community Team to plan and deliver community /
intergenerational events and experiences that bring people of different ages together.

What we are looking for

As the Youth Programmes and Outreach Coordinator, you will be outgoing and love working
and reaching out to people across backgrounds and sectors; you will be ready to take
initiative, have a flexible attitude, be able to think on your feet and enjoy finding solutions
when faced with challenges and change. You will be able to communicate your passion for Global
Generation’s work, the natural environment and social justice to others, particularly young
people, in a creative and engaging way, responding to where people are at, and adapting your
approach based on this. You will have prior experience of working with schools and finding ways
to make the offer relevant to the priorities and needs of young people.

You will readily pick up the phone, follow up on emails sent, visit other organisations
and schools, and offer activities in spaces where people are at. You will love to work deeply
with young people over a long period of time, finding out what engages them, building on their
interests and finding ways wherever possible for them to grow, progress and lead within Global
Generation and beyond.

You will have experience of actively seeking out partnerships to make our offer even
more compelling, beneficial and holistic for the young people. You will have strong project
management and coordination skills, as well as planning and facilitating year long programmes,
building in different ways of knowing and creative approaches so as to reach a cross-section of
young people, adapting to different abilities and needs. 

Ideally you will have experience and a love of urban gardening and/or food growing and
engaging people in getting their hands in the soil. You will also have an interest in action
research and/or participatory approaches to learning, acting and reflecting.

Please visit our website to download full job description and equal opportunities monitoring form. 

How to apply: Email your CV, covering letter and equal opportunities monitoring form
explaining why you are best suited for the role to [email protected]