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Senior Youth Worker &8211; Sports and Outreach

Goodman Masson
Posted 15 hours ago, valid for 8 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • XLP is seeking a Senior Youth Worker for Sports and Outreach in London, offering a salary between £27,500 and £29,000 per annum with hybrid working options.
  • The role requires experience working with young people in an inner-city context and focuses on enhancing sports participation and life skills development for youth aged 11 to 25.
  • Key responsibilities include leading football sessions, coaching fitness activities, and developing projects specifically aimed at girls and young women.
  • Candidates should possess strong communication skills, the ability to mobilize volunteers, and a passion for using sports to engage youth.
  • This is a permanent, full-time position with an occupational requirement for female applicants to foster a supportive environment for girls in sports.

Senior Youth Worker - Sports and Outreach London, UK £27,500 - £29,000pa + Hybrid working Permanent + Full time

XLP is a youth work charity working to create positive futures for young people and at the cutting edge of tackling poverty and educational failure in inner London. We deliver holistic, long-term work with young people aged 11 to 25 in schools and communities. We're looking for a Senior Youth Worker to join the team to enable us to continue this amazing youth work. As well as to grow our current offer for girls and young women. You'll also increase young people's physical participation in sports and fitness activities and help them develop greater life skills and more positive relationships along the way. There is an occupational requirement that this newly created role is performed by a female: we are particularly wanting to grow our fitness and sports activities for girls and young women and provide a supportive and safe environment we are therefore welcoming applications from females for this position.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead football sessions for 11-18-year-olds, creating games that include football coaching principles;
  • Help coach and encourage young people in fitness sessions, with our running and cycling clubs and in XLP's gym in Stratford;
  • Lead / Develop our Girls Gym and Football Projects
  • Register young people and collect their details, inputting them into our tracking systems;
  • Design session plans for football and gym sessions;
  • Plan and attend regular sporting and activity day and weekend trips.
  • Deliver 1:1 community support for young people who are at risk of serious youth violence, exploitation and disengagement
  • Work with the other Senior Youth Workers and Youth Work Managers to identify the types of activity and locations that are appropriate to grow the projects;
  • Develop project resources and building team to deliver the project to our beneficiaries effectively and efficiently;

Requirements

  • Working with young people, with experience in an inner-city context;
  • Energising and mobilising volunteers to get the best out of a team;
  • Using sports to engage young people and have an interest in coaching;
  • Communication, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport easily
  • Setting a good example to the young people you work with;
  • Thinking on your feet and being able to respond quickly to challenging situations;
  • Being encouraging and having patience with people you work with;
  • Taking initiative and leading others
  • Working on your own;
  • Using MS Office and video conferencing software.

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.