SPW Youth Events and Engagement Officer

1. Single Parents Wellbeing is a peer led, compassionate and connected approach to being in a single parent household, improving the mental wellbeing of single parent families.
2. This creative role will be integral in the set up and engagement of children and young people in this project.
3. The role will also be responsible for co-producing events and an action based learning approach to ensure that children and young people’s voices are heard from single parent households.

SPW Youth Events and Engagement Officer for Newport

18 hours per week | £11,512.80 per annum

This creative role will be integral in the set up and engagement of children and young people in this project. The role will also be responsible for co-producing events and an action based learning approach to ensure that children and young people’s voices are heard from single parent households.

Job Description 

• Organise, pilot and facilitate activities and events/ meet ups coproduced with CYP.
• Coproduce and design innovative ways to implement action based learning
• Foster a creative environment for exchange of ideas and possible solutions.
• Implement a peer led approach to working with CYP.
• Have a knowledge and grasp of adhering to budgets and KPIs of a project.
• Engage and network with a group of young people from diverse single parent families, single parents, partners and organisations working with young people. Uphold Inclusivity.
• Create online content to further support young people and to engage a wider audience of young people from single parent households
• Coproduce and empower children and young people to discover, define, develop and deliver a programme of activities throughout the life of the project.
• Set up activities and resilience programme with CYP and CYP Action Group, including monitoring and feedback of these sessions and liaising with partners around evaluation.
• Complete Field Notes and admin around events
• Work with key partners throughout communities and across sectors to promote the project.
• Feed into training needed by CYP and C4Cs volunteering on the project
• Attend partner meetings and where possible get CYP to attend and chair the meetings.
• Act as a role model for creativity and positive relationships with CYP

Personal Specification 

• Demonstrates key behaviours that encompass SPW main aims, including having a compassionate, empowering and collaborative approach to your work.
• Essential experience in working with mental health, wellbeing, single parents and complex issues. Including having personal experience of being a single parent or from a single parent household. 
• Youth work experience: leading groups and running events for young people, building positive relationships and being a reliable role model to vulnerable children.
• Good communication skills across partners and children and young people
• Organisation skills
• Event planning/delivering
• Experience of working across partners 
• Engagement experience 
• Action based and peer led approach experience 
• Ability to use social media and tech platforms from Gsuite

SPW is actively committed to promoting positive mental health and a productive workplace, through a pioneering model of support around flexible working. We welcome an individual approach and conversations with employees around this.

We are committed to actively diversifying our team here at Single Parents Wellbeing. We know that people from underrepresented groups can sometimes hold back from applying if they don’t meet all of the criteria. We care much more about getting to know you as a person so if you’re on the fence – just go for it! If you are Black, Asian, any other ethnic minority, or disabled, you are guaranteed an interview if you meet all essential criteria. We also give the interview questions 30 minutes before the interview starts.

Please apply by sending a CV and a letter that covers how you meet each point of the criteria of the role before the 23rd January. Interviews will take place on the 3rd and 4th February.