Youth Engagement Officer at Foundation of Light

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Type: Employment

Hours: Full time

Application deadline:

Based: Sunderland

Salary: £23,790 to 27,000 Per Annum

Salary Type: Salary Scale

Location: Tyne and Wear

Role description: Officer

At the Foundation of Light, we use the power of football to create better opportunities and better lives across Sunderland, South Tyneside and County Durham. Through education, connection and wellbeing, we break down barriers, build confidence and help people reach their potential.

Our new strategy is bold, ambitious and community-focused, and we’re growing our team to make an even bigger impact. If you’re passionate about changing lives and want to be part of something that truly matters, join us.

The Foundation of Light is seeking to recruit a highly motivated individual to deliver as part of the Belonging and Social Connectivity team. The successful candidate will deliver intentional one-to-one mentoring sessions and targeted group interventions based on attendance, risky behaviours and physical/mental health barriers, across multiple programmes. They will liaise with the Community Cohesion Manager and project coordinators to develop engaging and unique programmes to be delivered in school and the community. They will support targeted programmes addressing careers and academic performance with pre-NEET young people, social isolation, inequality and community division.