Youth Support Worker

To assist the Peace Bytes Youth Workers to deliver a 30 week youth work engagement and peer leadership development programme on good relations, personal development and citizenship.

1. To assist with the recruitment of young people to meet the recruitment targets for the intake of each cohort (including target Catholic/Protestant/Other ratios).

2. To assist with the delivery of 4 weeks of engagement, team-building and communication skills (including online) activities with each cohort.

3. To facilitate ongoing consultation with young people regarding the most effective engagement activities.

4. To help to prepare participants to progress from single identity to cross-community and cross-border contact, friendships and co-operation.

5. To assist with the delivery of 16 weeks at 6-sessions per week (96 sessions, 20 hours per week) per cohort of educational, developmental learning and mentoring support underpinned by the themes of good relations, personal development and citizenship in a safe and stimulating environment.

6. To shadow youth workers delivering good relations, personal development and citizenship group work, workshops and courses.

7. To assist with the organisation of cross community/border exchanges, field trips and activities.

8. To participate in online project sessions.

9. To assist in the recruitment and support of participants to join the Youth Steering Group.

10. To assist participants to develop and implement local social action projects

11. To assist with the provision of 10 weeks transition support per cohort to allow young people to deliver planned social action projects and to progress into leading local good relations projects.

12. To participate in ‘on the job training’ to gain work experience across several areas including Youth Work, Good Relations and ICT.

13. To gather monitoring and evaluation data from each cohort.