Community Outreach Officer – Holiday Provision and Volunteering
Job Description
Job title: Community Outreach Officer – Holiday Provision and Volunteering
Company: City Football Group
Job description: Closing Date for Applications: 6th March 2024
Purpose
Established in 1986, City in the Community is Manchester City’s official charity. We support people across Manchester by empowering healthier lives through football. Our programmes place physical and mental wellbeing at their core, whilst also creating healthy futures and healthy communities.
The purpose of the Community Outreach Officer – “Holiday provision & Volunteering” is to design and lead the delivery of Community Outreach programmes, specifically our holiday provision and volunteering within community settings. The Community Outreach Officer will be a strategic lead across the foundation, supporting staff CPD and ensuring delivery across all programmes is inclusive and addresses inequalities and barriers to participation, healthy meals and employability.
Accountabilities * Leading a robust holiday activity programme across multiple venues in Manchester; designing and implementing quality workshops and activity curriculums that positively impacts physical and mental wellbeing of young people in Manchester through football.
- Leading the 93:20 volunteering programme ensuring the highest quality curriculum, workshops and mentoring framework are designed and implemented to enable positive outcomes for participants and opportunities for pathways into employment.
- Responsible for inclusive recruitment and effective onboarding of volunteers and a seasonal casual workforce. Assessing and coordinating appropriate training and development across those groups to ensure engagement, educational and compliance needs are met.
- Working collaboratively across CITC departments to ensure effective rota planning, line management, training and handover of a full-time workforce assigned to the holiday provisions.
- Utilising coach development assessments, volunteer mentoring and monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure quality assurance of programmes.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Sound experience of project management.
- Experience of coaching community-based programmes, specifically around holiday provision, and volunteering or mentoring.
- Solid experience of working in and liaising with schools, community organisations, facility partners, local government departments and external funding partners.
- Hold or be working towards a minimum Level 2 Coaching Certificate in Football or Multi-skills.
- Experience and knowledge of working within a brand environment and understanding the responsibilities that are associated with representing a Premier League Football Club
- Experience of working as part of a team to achieve joint outcomes.
- GCSEs in English, Maths and Science
- Competent across Microsoft office
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Understanding of City in the Community Foundation and its projects
- Knowledge of the holiday activity fund and it’s purpose
- Creative and passionate about continuous improvement
- Resilient and adaptable to change
- Excellent and inclusive team-working abilities
Desirable
- Degree level education
- Coaching Level 2 qualification in one other relevant sport.
- Knowledge and experience of Youth Work theories and practise.
- Specific knowledge of mentoring, youth engagement
- and/or disability/Girls programmes
- Experience in operating booking systems
- Remote line management
- Experience of managing a team
- Presentation skills
- Experience of delivering CPD sessions for wider team.
City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.
Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.
Expected salary:
Location: Manchester
