Freelance Education Event Co-ordinators

Excellent hourly/day rates

Flexible hours available

Birmingham

Ahead Partnership works with employers and educators to provide services that help to engage, inspire and motivate young people around skills, career options and future employment. Can you bring passion and individuality to our growing programmes?

We organise and deliver a range of employability and skills activities that enable young people to meet volunteers from the working world. The activities are aimed at raising aspirations, improving careers awareness, developing essential skills, building confidence, and expanding networks.

Recent years have allowed us to broaden our reach through hybrid delivery, with activities taking place both virtually and in-person, from interview practice to workplace visits. All our activity is created to engage with the target cohort and involves lots of hands on, interactivity. We also plan and deliver large-scale flagship events themed around a specific sector such as digital, green or professional and financial services. These inspire young people to explore roles in these areas, through an interactive and informative event schedule.

Our clients are at the heart of everything we do and as our representative, you’ll need to share our commitment to delivering a first-class service to all those involved in our activities and events.

You’ll be working alongside and supported by a dedicated team who are passionate about making a difference and ambitious for what we can achieve.

We work with a hugely diverse range of young people in and believe that it is key to provide them with positive role models who they can relate to. We therefore are incredibly passionate about diversity and inclusion in all forms and would love to hear from people who reflect this. If you share our passion and vision but are worried that you may not have the ‘correct’ skills or experience, please do get in touch – we are always interested in hearing from people who want to work with us.

We offer generous hourly / day rates. No direct experience is required as full training will be provided. Prior experience working with young people, working within education or teaching would be an advantage.

You will need to;

be passionate about being part of a purpose-led businessbring your individuality to deliver content to young people in an exciting and engaging wayembrace change and be flexible in how you workbe comfortable working in partnership with the wider team and external stakeholders including employers and teachers

Responsibilities:

Planning of activities:

Work as part of a wider project team on the preparation and planning of activitiesCarry out planning calls with stakeholders, to ensure all delivery and logistical considerations are accounted forRecruitment of diverse volunteers to support activitiesUndertake administrative duties to deliver projects you support

Delivery of activities:

Represent Ahead Partnership in line with our values and cultureLiaise with an Ahead Partnership member of staff prior to the eventMeet and greet, brief and continually engage business volunteersEnsure the event spaces are set up correctly as specifiedLead/Facilitate the session from start to finish, including time-management and gathering feedbackAbility to adapt to different scenarios whilst running the eventReport back to the relevant Ahead Partnership contact after each eventUndertake other duties as requested and commensurate with the post

Required Skills:

Proven facilitation skillsAbility to work independentlyAbility to think on your feet and problem solveDemonstrable planning, organisational and time-management skillsStrong interpersonal skillsGood level of spelling and grammarExcellent communicator

Experience:

Experience of working with Young People – ideally those aged 11-16 years oldComprehensive experience of delivering presentations, training or workshops to a large audience and facilitating groupsExperience of developing and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders and partners.

Whilst not essential, we are also interested in hearing from people with experience of managing complex programmes of activity or teams of people to deliver activities / events.

Work is adhoc. We are flexible and happy to work around your other commitments, if you are happy to be flexible too! As the programmes grow more work will become available, if you’re interested in doing more with us.

If you are interested in this Education Event Co-ordinator role please press apply and you will be directed to the Ahead Partnership careers page to continue your application where you will find full details about Ahead Partnership and the role.

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