The opportunity

Whatever your specific responsibilities and specialisms, as a Co-Ordinator you will be customer and delivery-focused, structured and organised in your approach, highly engaged and interactive with colleagues and beneficiaries of our work. You will take personal ownership of your work and will be proactive in your own development. You will be collaborative with colleagues and supportive of each other in achieving our collective targets and objectives.

Your key responsibilities

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  Organise and manage our Youth Advisory Board (YAB), to ensure their voices, lived experiences and insights inform and shape our work so we can better support and deliver greater impact for young people
• Assist the two YAB young trustees to understand and meet their charitable governance and other responsibilities as trustees
• Work closely with the COO and Head of Programmes and Regions to develop a Youth Engagement Framework and lead on its implementation
• Lead on coproduction and engagement with young people from a variety of communities as required to help input into bids and programmatic development
• Work closely with the communications team to manage our youth ambassadors and our Voice of Young People campaigns, capturing media and case studies where appropriate
• Be a champion within and outside of the Foundation for young people and young people’s voices

Skills and attributes for success

What you will bring to the Foundation is your demonstrable experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Experience of working directly with young people or other cohorts/communities to promote and embed youth/user voices within organisations, including some understanding of asset-based approaches
• Interest in social media and how different channels can be used to promote the voice of young people
• Strong working knowledge and experience in an administrative or operational role
• Delivering excellent customer service, to internal or external customers or service users
• Working in a delivery-focused organisation
• Co-ordinating multiple activities or tasks effectively
• Developing compliance/quality processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong active listening skills
• Ability to foster positive relationships with a range of people
• Collaboration and flexibility in your team working, whilst also being able to work with minimum supervision
• Strong and evidenced commitment to diversity
• Strong commitment to improve the working lives and prospects of disadvantaged young people in the UK

To qualify for the role, you must have

You will be able to demonstrate the competences expected of an EY Foundation co-ordinator. Where you need more time to fully develop those competences, we will support you in so doing.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note
Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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