About the role
This is a temporary role with a number of a maximum 10 hours a month. A Youth Employment Representative is a young person who:
Is passionate about ensuring that every young person is able to access education, training and employment.
Wants to share their views on how we can make that happen;
Can spare one day every other month of spare time to take on a paid role working with local business leaders, youth services, policy-makers and education professionals.
What you’ll do:
Youth Employment Representatives will join a network of business leaders, youth services, and those working in educational and training working to create a better system for local young people. This network is called the Local London Youth Integration Network (YIN).
As a Youth Employment Representative, you’ll make sure that youth voice is at the heart of the YIN’s work.
You’ll share your views with other network members to ensure plans really reflect the experiences and hopes of young people.
Other Information
Your commitment
As a Youth Employment Representative, you will commit to a year of work with the Youth Integration Network. We expect to meet every two months, with a mixture of online and in-person meetings. You will be working for a minimum of one day every two months.
We understand things change, so we’ll have a reflection meeting with each Youth Employment Representative every four months to ensure that the role still works for you.
Your benefits
•Pay: London Living wage (£13.85 per hour), paid directly into your bank account.
•Recognition: Receive a certificate for participating from Local London.
•Experience: build skills in policy, public speaking, debate, service design, research, community work and professional communication (great for your CV and applications).
•Voice: Be a part of shaping real change in how young people are supported into work, education and training.
Diversity and selection criteria
The Youth Employment Representatives will represent the voices of young people on the YIN, so it is important that we hear from young people that represent many different experiences.
We must be resident of one of the Local London boroughs: Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest.
We would like to hear from young people representing all genders, all faiths and the many ethnicities represented in our sub-region.
We are particularly interested in hearing from young people who may face more barriers to employment, education and training. These young people are often missed out of the conversation and offer a valuable perspective on what is needed to tackle youth employment in a way that is inclusive to all young people. This includes young people who:
•Have experiences of care or have recently left care.
•Have a special educational need or disability (SEND) or have received extra learning support.
•Took alternative routes through education, or didn’t find school or exams worked for them.
•Come from communities or backgrounds that face additional barriers to accessing opportunities (e.g. young people from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority backgrounds, or those from low-income households or areas with fewer opportunities.)
•Are balancing other responsibilities, such as caring for family or managing physical/mental health conditions.
•Have spent a long period of time out of work, education or training.
To apply please email your CV and interest at: workconnections@redbridge.gov.uk