Youth Engagement Partner
Location: Merthyr Tydfil
Salary: £24,961 to £27,049 (Appointment to bottom of Band)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours of work: 37 hrs (30hrs – 4 Day Week)
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Are you passionate about working with our younger generation to discover their potential?
If so, we would love you to come and join our amazing mutual!
The role will be based on-site at our Calon Las Youth Service and will include evening working.
Are you our ideal candidate?
As our new Youth Engagement Partner, you’ll contribute to shaping and delivering our youth engagement programme to our local communities. The role will be responsible for the creation and delivery of a range of youth engagement activities.
You will report to our Senior Youth Engagement Partner and will work alongside a team of Youth Engagement Partners and other agencies to encourage young people’s participation, providing a range of opportunities for growth and development, whilst creating lasting positive relationships.
Our ideal candidate shares our mutual values and is passionate about working in partnership with tenants and our wider communities. You’ll need to be an excellent communicator – someone who is warm, compassionate, and approachable, with a sense of humour. You’ll be confident in working alongside a range of audiences, tailoring your approach, and able to facilitate discussion.
You can speak from the heart and are driven by seeing young people and communities thrive. You have bucketloads of initiative and be a great event organiser with excellent project planning skills.
Please be aware that due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check.
How to apply:
You will need to submit your CV and fill out a short application form which you can do by clicking on the Apply button at the top of this page.
When you upload your CV, can we ask that you don’t include any personal information that identifies you. This means we can recruit based on your knowledge and skills, not background, gender and ethnicity.
Personal information would include the following:
• Name/Title
• Educational institutions
• Age
• Gender
• Email and postal address
• Phone number
• Nationality/immigration status
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Closing date for applications is Wednesday 8th May 2024 at 14:00pm.
Interview Date: Monday 20th May 2024 (On-site)
Merthyr Valleys Homes reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a high number of sufficient applications are received prior to the closing date.
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