Youth Engagement Coach – Full Time

These roles will work between the hours of 8:30am – 8pm Monday to Friday at our Dinnington Boxing gym and across the community at different schools, and may change week to week depending on contracts.

The Job role

We have an exciting opportunity to join the DC team to assist the delivery of our schools programs and our Boxing club.

As a Youth Engagement Coach your role will be to work primarily with students who are at risk of exclusion or in the community in small targeted sessions and also larger mainstream boxing fitness classes with groups of up to 20 students.

You will need to have a good understanding of young people, the challenges they face, so experience in Youth Work is desirable as is a background in boxing or sports coaching.

A big part of this role is completing case notes, reports and case studies, so you must be confident and have good literacy and computer skills.

As you may be working across different sites, driving is essential in this post.

We are looking for an individual who:

• Has a passion for supporting young people
• Can build positive professional relationships with young people
• Is comfortable communicating with young people on a wide range of topics
• Friendly, Approachable, and reliable

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level.

 Further information about the disclosure of criminal records can be found at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record

Job Description

Reporting to: Project delivery coordinator

Main duties and responsibilities

Work with young people on a 1:1 or group basis

• Prepare for each session, plan a variety of exercises and activities week on week including a technical session with demonstrations, drills, core work, stretching and mentoring

• Command respect and trust from young people by sharing knowledge and expertise of boxing whilst also encouraging young people to have a voice and express themselves

• Make use of a toolbox of exercises to engage young people, ‘make it fun’ whilst also dealing with emotions and adapting the session format as appropriate

• Use our library of psychologically informed Personal Development messages to support young people to make positive changes to how they think and behave

• Provide practical advice and guidance to young people

• Agree outcomes with schools and other referral agencies and meet contacts regularly to review group/individual progress

• Keep the sessions fresh and relevant, using innovation and learning from external training, Be a link between the young person and the school, building trust and encouraging open communication

• Update the register and write up session notes at the end, provide a more detailed file note for one-to-one and box champions sessions

To complete case studies and reports on box champions and other projects as requested by CEO and project manager.

• Be the face of ‘DC Boxing,’ dealing with issues/concerns swiftly and keep management within DC updated

• Regularly share experiences and learning with the other coaches

Skills & Attributes

• Good communication skills, adaptable to the audience

• Good listener and patience

• Ability to work calmly under pressure. High degree of emotional resilience

• Good at problem-solving and using own initiative

• Physically fit and healthy

• Able to read a situation and take appropriate action

• Able to ‘think on your feet’ and deal with the unexpected

Standards

Ability to exemplify DC Boxing’s core values and behaviours

• Maintains high standards of personal appearance, conduct, respect for company property and reputation

• Works within the appropriate company policies and procedures including health and safety

• Information about customers, suppliers, contracts, tenders and other commercially sensitive matters etc are considered confidential and must not be divulged without prior authority

This job description is a guide to the duties you will be expected to perform. It is not an exhaustive list, and such duties may well be altered from time to time to meet changes in DC Boxing requirements. Any such changes will be discussed with the post holder prior to the changes being made.

Person specification

AF = Application Form, I = Interview, Q = Qualifications, R= Reference