Youth Opportunities Coordinator - Youth Accommodation Services

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Starting at £28,247.60 rising incrementally to £30,342.85 per annum

We're seeking a skilled and dedicated individual to join our team as a Youth Opportunities Coordinator. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with proven experience of working with young people, and for a candidate who is ready to stretch their skills and develop further into a specialist role. 

In this role, you will play a vital role in designing, implementing and coordinating activities for the Young People’s Opportunity Programme with young people within our accommodation services in Greenwich. 

Your mission: to support and empower young people to develop the lifelong tools they need to lead fulfilling lives outside the confines of traditional services.  

About the Role: 

Defined and developed through best practice, our Youth Opportunities Program has been developed to initiate and support the process of change through workshops and sessions, such as art and arts for therapy, sport & health as well as wellbeing and life skills.  

The program has elements which are accredited and tailored specifically towards moving NEET young people into employment, training and education.  

As the Coordinator, you will be developing and delivering programs within services alongside the frontline support team and working with the wider Opportunities team to build new content and share sessions which have achieved the best results. 

About you:

• You bring experience working with young people who struggle with change and motivation. 
• Your toolkit includes practical skills in motivation and coaching young people.  
• Your approach is creative, analytical, trauma-informed and rooted in person-centred ways of working. 
• You can creatively inspire opportunities for our young people to thrive and to develop to their highest potential. 
• Can multi-task and manage working under pressure. 
• Strong team-working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a collaborative approach to supporting young people achieve the outcomes and goals we support them to set for themselves. 

About us:

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

We offer you more than a job; we offer you a chance to be part of a compassionate, driven team that's committed to making a real difference in people's lives. You'll have the opportunity to lead, co-create, and inspire change while enjoying a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.

Join us in creating a brighter, more hopeful future for individuals in need. 

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work