Engagement Lead – Challenge Programme Job Description

Organisation: Babbasa CIC

Office Location: Redbrick House, 6 York Court, Wilder St, Bristol BS2 8QH

Contact Number: 0117 329 0717

Job Type: Fixed Term contract

Hours: 35 hours

Salary: £24,000

Start date: June 2019

About Babbasa Babbasa is an award winning Bristol based social enterprise, which supports aspiring young people with their professional aspirations. Our vision is creating a world where all young people are able to realize their employment and enterprise ambitions, irrespective of where they live, their nationality, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality or faith.

Job Purpose The Engagement Lead is an exciting and important role aimed at delivering Babbasa’s Challenge Programme, which involves working with a group of enterprising young people to develop their skills and confidence through a training course, social action project, followed by the opportunity to partake in a mentoring programme. The post is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Core Responsibilities

● Deliver and facilitate Babbasa’s workshop and training activities including the

recruitment, enrolment and induction of participants (Ambassadors) onto the Challenge programme

● Design and deliver weekly training and workshop materials through the use of

appropriate teaching, learning and assessment methods - with the aim of encouraging challenge thinking, debates and developing the ability of participants to engage in critical discourse and rational thinking

● Build a trusting relationship (based on Babbasa values) with young people engaged - to

ensure we meet their progression outcome and identify/address any health and safety, disability, equality, concerns or welfare issues.

● Lead a group of young people in the delivery of a social action project which develops

their employability and enterprise knowledge and experience

● Support Ambassadors to successfully engage with businesses and city wide voluntary

organisations, schools, colleges and local youth agencies on the social action project.

● Coordinate a mentoring scheme after the social action project, which includes matching,

training, facilitation of first meetings and reviewing progress of Mentees

● Monitor and evaluate each of the core elements of the Challenge programme and assist

to produce a final report after the 6-month programme cycle.

General Responsibilities● Ensure young peoples’ comments, voices and suggestions are at the heart of service

delivery and respond to their needs.● Ensure internal administrative tasks are completed in a timely and accurate manner as

required by Babbasa and the activity funder. ● Deliver support and guidance to participants using best practice.● To attend and take part in meetings e.g. team and caseload meetings.

Person Specification Skills and Abilities

● Good organisation and time management skills; able to prioritise workloads effectively,

meet deadlines and monitor outcomes.

● Able to provide young people with enjoyable, stimulating and challenging experiences

● Able to provide young people with appropriate information, advice, support and

challenge, and refer them to specialist help when required.

● Able to establish and maintain positive relationships with young people, including

agreeing limits for acceptable behaviour

● Able to use a variety of approaches creatively – matched to young people’s different

needs, abilities and interests

● Prepared to work flexibly, including evenings, weekends and other unsocial hours

Knowledge and Experience

● Knowledge of inner city Bristol and an understanding of the issues affecting local

communities.

● Experience of working with young people aged 16-25

● Experience of delivering training or workshops

● Experience of working with or across agencies

● An understanding of the principles and implementation of an Equal Opportunities Policy,

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policies

● Experience of using a variety of information technology and the

ability to maintain records on a database