Career Opportunity

YouthAction is seeking a Youth Worker to join their team on the Our Generation project funded by PeacePlus. The Youth Worker will be based in YouthAction's Enniskillen regional office. This is 1 of 2 regional youth worker posts currently being advertised.

Our Generation (OG) is a regional cross border, cross community initiative to building peace through emotional resilience across NI and the border regions of Ireland resulting in meaningful, purposeful and sustained contact between children and young people from different communities. Our Generation builds a renewed, confident and hopeful society, conveying a light on what is possible as individuals, communities and as a wider society.

YouthAction NI targets and deliverables for Our Generation – delivered by the collective OG team.

The Our Generation Project will engage with 3,750 young people broken down as follows:

Developmental Youth Work

1620 young people will engage in projects in local communities that will use educational youth work methodologies to explore the issues that impact on their lives (masculinities; femininities; violence; safety; peacebuilding; motherhood; fatherhood; education; employment; physical & mental fitness; sexuality etc.) that equips them with the skills to deliver a social action project. Young people will engage in developmental youth work projects for a minimum of 20hrs.

180 young people that need additional support in their lives will engage in one to one mentoring support. These young people will range from those having low mental health; social anxiety; learning needs; behavioural issues; living in care; living in supported housing; involvement with social services; known to the justice system/PSNI etc. Young people will engage in one-to-one mentoring support for a minimum of 20hrs.

Accredited Training

450 young people engage in a range of accredited training programmes. These include but aren’t restricted to OCNNI Level 1 in Youth Work; OCNNI Level 2 In Youth Work Practice; ONCNI Level 1 Health & Fitness; Carbon Literacy Training etc.

Inter Group Contact

1500 young people will engage in inter group projects that will bring together groups from different cultural backgrounds to participate in specific activities (i.e. Hunger Games for Peace). Inter Group Contact projects will be delivered over five sessions.

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Qualifications

1. JNC/NSETS professionally qualified with Degree in Community Youth Work

Or

Be working towards the completion of the Degree in Community Youth Work

Or

Youth work qualified to Level 4 i.e. Certificate in Community Youth Studies and have a minimum  of 2 years’ experience of delivering community youth work. Skills/and Experience (showing evidence):

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2. Recruitment: proactive recruitment and range of methods to engage young people.

3. Retention and support: individual and group-based support to young people, employing a range of approaches that involves co-design with them.  

4. Social action: nurturing individual and collective efforts through campaigns, protests and other modes of social action.

5. Youth participation: flexible and varied methods of young people in decision-making or advisory roles.    

6. Peace-building: cross community, community relations and peace-building through youth work.  

7. Cross border: initiatives and youth work experience on a cross border level.

8. Partnership: working and collaborating with other external groups and organisations.

9. Organisational and administrative skills (e.g. filing, planning, record-keeping, note-taking, priority plans, reviewing, setting goals, managing workflow, monitoring and evaluation, practice recordings).

10. Full driving licence and access to a car to facilitate the requirements of the job or working towards a full driving licence within 6 months.

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Knowledge of:

12. Emotional resilience, mental health and well-being.      

13. Conflict, division and peace-building approaches.

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· Inclusive and Friendly Working Environment

· Attractive annual leave with length of service rewards

· Allocated well-being days at Christmas

· Occupational Family Friendly Policies

· Occupational Sick Pay

· TOIL (Time Off In Lieu)

· Personal Development including in service training opportunities

· Investors in People Award (Gold)

Application forms can be requested from joanne@youthaction.org

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