Project Support Officer – Post 16 Education and Skills

2. Key accountabilities:

• Deliver engaging and effective facilitation, support to gain employment for young people using a range of strategies, platforms, and interventions.
• Support the Programme Manager with the delivery of events to launch and showcase projects as well as events that form part of the learning experience for young people.
• Support the Programme Manager with coordination and administration to deliver our evolving provision (digital and physical), ensuring it is delivered to the highest quality.
• Support, organise and facilitate young people to achieve accreditation and employment-based qualification where necessary.
• Schedule and coordinate activity across project work-streams
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders including delivery partners.
• Conduct visits to youth organisations engaged in programmes (digital and physical).
• Support the Programme Manager with monitoring and evaluation of our work as required, including data input.
• Support the Programme Manager to produce reports and presentations as required.
• Support the Programme Manager with the development of marketing and communications materials.
• Support the Programme Manager to provide opportunities for politicians to engage with the projects.

Other area of responsibilities

• Ensure children and young people play a strong leadership role across the work.
• Keep up to date on new developments and trends within the sector.
• Carry out administrative duties including minute taking, arranging travel, and booking venues.
• Build relationships with aligned organisations; identifying opportunities to work in partnership where approach. Represent BELS, when necessary, at external events
• Act as an ambassador for the organisation, contributing to the effectiveness of meetings, the sharing of knowledge and experience.
• Able to take personal accountability for key work areas and understand individual accountabilities within work areas bringing back to inform planning and decision making.
• Able to identify cause, effect relationships, and take a solution focussed approach.

. Health and Safety Responsibilities

• Ensure BELS Health and Safety and Safeguarding and any other appropriate policies are adhered to where necessary.
• Take reasonable care of their own health and safety and for that of others who might be affected by their own work, as required by law, and described in the relevant operating procedures and policies.

4. Flexibility

In order to deliver the service effectively, a degree of flexibility is needed, and the post-holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties, however, will fall within the scope of the post, at the appropriate grade.

5. 5. Commitment to Equality

To deliver Barnet with commitment to equality of opportunity in the provision of services, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services Barnet delivers and to ensure services provided for young people are accessible to all members of the community and reflect Barnet’s Equal Opportunities Policy.

Person Specification:

Behavioural Competencies