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Job Vacancy:
Programme Coordinator
with responsibility for NCS
(National Citizen Service)
Salary: £23,530 (NJC point 14)
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week
Location: GMYN offices in central Manchester, with flexible homeworking arrangements
Reporting to: NCS Manager
Direct Reports: No staff management; occasional sessional worker supervision
The Role: We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic individual with experience supporting
young people from diverse backgrounds to join #TeamGMYN as a Programme Coordinator.
You will have responsibility for coordinating the delivery of National Citizen Service (NCS) in
Manchester. You will also support our wider youth programmes, including new and existing
programmes of work.
Welcome Thank you for your interest in joining #TeamGMYN! This is a great opportunity to join the charity during a period of development and excitement. I’m really looking forward to seeing applications from candidates with a variety of skills and experiences. That’s what really drives GMYN and creates our dynamic team culture. I founded GMYN in 2007 and it’s really changed and grown over the years to be the leading charity it is now. I’m really proud to see how the team has worked hard to ensure the quality of our delivery and the passion for supporting young people is demonstrated. We’re really pleased to be part of the NCS network, helping to provide fantastic experiences for all the participants. Young people take part in amazing activities and develop key skills whilst learning more about their own community. This role will join our existing team, so you be part of a very supportive group, all working together to ensure young people have an amazing time. Thanks for showing an interest and good luck with your application! Alex Fairweather Chief Executive & Founder
About GMYN: What We Do For many young people, the transition to adulthood isn’t easy. In the UK, one third of young people are lonely, half feel unready for work and half feel like they don’t belong to their community. What’s more, in Greater Manchester, 1 in 3 children live in poverty. With the additional challenges of Covid-19, young people have never been more in need of support: one million under 25s in the UK are expected to face unemployment and 80% of young people with a history of mental ill health have said their condition is getting worse. Our vision is #YoungPeopleCan and we help young people in Greater Manchester overcome this. We deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people aged 13-25 transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive. Our focus is supporting young people who face significant challenges, including those with experience of the care system; special educational needs and disabilities; and social, emotional and mental health challenges. Founded in 2007 by our Chief Executive, Alex Fairweather, we have grown from a single volunteering project to a registered charity and have helped over 11,000 young people.
About GMYN: Our Values
We embed our values across everything we do at GMYN, from our internal staff culture, to
our partnerships and, most importantly, our youth work. Co-designed with the team, our
values are:
• Compassion: We care.
This sounds like an obvious value for a charity but it is something we are very
passionate about at GMYN. We listen to young people and our team and take
concerns, ideas and experiences seriously. We want everyone who engages with
GMYN to have the best experience possible so we are always evolving and developing
to ensure that anyone can feel comfortable, happy and fulfilled.
• Inclusivity: We want to involve everyone.
We are a learning organisation and are committed to becoming fully inclusive. We
know that real, meaningful inclusion is never a tick-box exercise, so we are devoted to
educating and re-educating ourselves and constantly evaluating our practices to make
sure that anyone can contribute and feel valued at GMYN.
• Collaboration: We work together.
We believe that the best can only be achieved by working together, whether that’s as a
team, with other organisations, with young people or with other experts. Our vision
that #YoungPeopleCan is only achievable by sharing knowledge, learning and the
workload.
• Authenticity: We are real.
We believe in integrity and honesty throughout all aspects of our work and we are
realistic in our ambitions. This means that we get to the root of the issues that young
people face, take them seriously and provide the support that we know is needed. We
also believe in transparency and foster a culture of honesty throughout or practices,
within the team, with our partners and with the young people we support.
• Transformation: We make change.
We believe that everything we do should have real intent and design. We don’t believe
in the ‘sticking plaster’ approach so every programme we deliver, every session we run
and every decision we make is done with a genuine aim to make a positive difference
in the lives of young people.
NCS at GMYN: How We Do It
GMYN is a delivery partner of NCS in Manchester. We deliver the NCS programme with
young people from Central and South Manchester and we have strong, working relationships
with a number of schools and colleges across the area.
Most of our programmes take place in the summer and autumn school holidays, which we
supplement with a year-round, term-time School Support offer of life skills sessions.
Our small NCS team oversees the programme from start to finish, planning and delivering
recruitment events; building relationships with young people, schools and parents; and
designing, organising, staffing and delivering the programme during school holidays.
NCS in the North West is led by The Growth Company and nationally the programme is
overseen by the NCST Trust, however, as Programme Coordinator, you will have autonomy in
how you plan and deliver NCS at GMYN. You will also play a vital part in helping to design
and shape the programme, whilst supporting key decision making.
Head of Programmes
Oversees all of GMYN’s programme delivery, reporting and safeguarding.
NCS Manager
Responsible for overseeing the programme as a whole, including managing contractual
requirements, target, budgets, staffing, and liaising with managing partner and other
stakeholders.
Programme Lead
Responsible for overseeing recruitment and retention of young
people to the programme, and managing relationships with
venues, and curriculum and community partners.
Programme Coordinator x2 (one already in post, one being recruited)
Responsible for day to day programme planning, managing relationships with schools
and colleges, delivering recruitment and retention events, liaising with young people,
parents and guardians, and leading on programme delivery.
Joining #TeamG MYN: Our Offer
Joining #TeamGMYN: Our Offer
At GMYN, we strive to be inclusive. Every member of #TeamGMYN is involved in all aspects
of decision making, from strategic planning, setting the organisational values through to basic
everyday practices to give everyone an active voice. We are responsive to the needs of the
team and all support available is designed through consultation.
We are regularly reviewing our practices to create a safe, welcoming and supportive
environment and encourage suggestions and feedback from staff to improve our offer.
• Health Assured: Staff have access to the Health Assured Employee Assistance
Programme (EAP), a confidential third party offer to help you and your immediate
family members deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting
your home life, work life, health and general wellbeing. The 24/7 service offers a wide
range of support, including life support, legal information, bereavement support,
medical information, CBT online and much more. Find out more here.
• Wellbeing Days: Staff can also benefit from five annual wellbeing days. Wellbeing
days are ‘no-questions-asked’ days of annual leave, to be taken on the day they are
needed, to allow you ad-hoc time away from work to manage any personal
circumstances.
• Flexible Working: We operate flexible working hours and working from home policies
to allow you to fit your personal commitments around your work.
• Childcare Vouchers: Anyone registered with an existing childcare voucher scheme can
continue to benefit from this with GMYN.
• Accessible & Ethical: Our office is based at Greenfish Resource Centre, an ethical
property committed to making social change. The building is accessible with a
passenger lift, bike racks and gender neutral toilet and shower facilities.
• Renumeration: We are a living wage employer, setting salaries in line with NJC scales
and reviewing annually. Our processes also remove barriers to progression and
empower staff to formally request performance-based payrises.
• Annual Leave: All staff receive 25 days of annual leave, pro rata, rising after five
years of continuous employment.
• Pension: We offer an 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contributions.
Whilst our staff team is diverse in many ways, we recognise that we are not currently
representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are currently working with
specialist charities to adapt our practices to make sure that anyone, no matter their
background, can work with us to their fullest potential. We therefore welcome applications
from people from BAME backgrounds and people who identify as having additional needs
or disabilities.
Job Role: Key Responsibilities
• Provide effective delivery of the NCS programme ensuring GMYN meets delivery
targets set out by NCS Trust and managing partner.
• To create effective relationships with young people from diverse backgrounds and
differing needs, equipping and enabling them to overcome barriers.
• Meet regularly with GMYN’s NCS Programme Lead to review current performance
across all aspects of the NCS programme and wider GMYN delivery you are
undertaking.
• Market the NCS opportunity through schools and colleges liaising with key teaching
staff and management.
• Promote NCS to partners and recruit young people on to the Manchester programme
using a variety of mechanisms including presentations, social activities and innovative
ways to engage the target group
• Ensure that all participants are safeguarded, and that good safeguarding practice is
followed in all project activities.
• Develop and deliver social action activities by liaising with local community groups,
charities and volunteer agencies.
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• Ensure that provision is of the highest quality and achieves positive outcomes for
children and young people.
• Monitor and evaluate the programme outputs and outcomes using GMYN’s/NCS
Trust’s data collection tools and report these to management to agreed deadlines.
• Attend related networks, meetings and NCS events, supporting partnership and
sharing good practice.
• Comply with GMYN policies and procedures.
• Provide appropriate group and 1:1 support with a flexible approach that encourages
participation within identified pieces of GMYN delivery.
• Be led by and focussed on the aspirations of the young person, in order to offer the
most effective support.
• Deliver relevant key activities including life skills, wellbeing and youth leadership
projects to enable young people to develop key skills, build confidence and gain the
knowledge they need to support a positive future.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities that contribute to the
organisation’s overall aims and objectives.Job Role: Person Specification
Our aim is to find a suitable candidate that can meet the selection criteria below. This can be
from a past/current communications role, or a role with transferable skills. More importantly
we are looking for your passion and ability to fulfil this role, whatever your background.
Essential Criteria:
• Experience of delivering programmes and group activity with young people.
• Experience supporting young people to volunteer or participate in youth-led social
action projects.
• Experience of supporting young people with complex needs, e.g. SEND, SEMH and
Care Experience.
• Understanding of behaviour management in youth work settings.
• Basic safeguarding knowledge.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety, including good practice in risk assessment.
• Experience of working in partnership with proven success of encouraging new
organisations to support delivery.
• Flexible and adaptable, with ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines and targets as set by GMYN and the NCS Trust.
• Friendly, approachable and dependable.
• Confident, resilient and able to overcome barriers.
• A strong commitment to GMYN’s vision, mission and values.
Desirable Criteria:
• Experience of delivering the NCS programme.
• Experience of delivering residential programmes with multiple participants.
• Experience of promoting and directly recruiting participants to programmes.
• Experience of producing programme reports to demonstrate impact.
• Friendly, approachable and dependable.
• A valid driving license or the ability to travel.
• First Aid training certificate.
• Youth Work qualification.
• Basic IT skills.
How to Apply:
Your invitation to interview will based on how you demonstrate that you meet the points on
the person specification. We will consider skills and experiences from various roles as long as
you can demonstrate how they can be transferable to this role.
Please keep your answer to no more than two sides of A4 and submit, along with your up
to date CV and the Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form, to jobs@gmyn.co.uk by Monday
13th September 2021.
Interviews will be held on Monday 20th September 2021 in central Manchester, however we
are able to hold virtual interviews where necessary. We are also able to reimburse reasonable
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