Delivery Lead - East of England

Basics

• Salary – £25,000.00 to £30,000.00
• Reporting to – Programme Manager
• Team – Delivery
• Location – East of England – Stevenage and Luton (daily travel to delivery sites and some working from home)
• Hours – Full time
• Contract type – Permanent

Job Overview

As Delivery Lead you will be out on the ground setting best practice in delivering the Dallaglio RugbyWorks interventions in the East of England. You will also play a role in the development, networking and management of projects in the region. You will become the go to person for all things East of England and work closely with your Programme Manager to oversee the smooth day-to-day running.

You will be working with some of the hardest to reach young people who are most at risk of exclusion, in small groups of 8-10. We use sport as a hook and mentorship as an anchor, using our four cornerstones (developing life skills, raising aspirations, improving physical wellbeing, focus on mental wellbeing) to develop young people throughout their time with us. You will help to deliver sports based sessions combined with employability workshops to enable young people to be in a better position to enter sustained education, employment or training (EET) when they leave school.

You do not need to be a rugby fanatic for this role, but you do need to be passionate about social mobility of the excluded. This role requires someone with a youth work, sports coaching or teaching background combined with the ability to develop and coordinate the region and team within it.

Intervention Delivery

• Deliver our suite of interventions both during the school timetable and outside of the school timetable (3-7pm) within a range of settings in your region.
• Develop session plans in line with our curriculum and scheme of work, tailoring these to the needs of each cohort of young people.
• Act as the lead member of delivery staff in sessions and with the school.
• Establishing and maintaining professional relationships with staff within the education settings that we work in.
• Build trusted adulted relationships with young people that are meaningful and supportive.
• Adapt to changing environments and work creatively to deliver sessions to a range of young people.
• Ensure that our web based App Player Profiles becomes an integral part of the delivery of our interventions and support mechanisms for young peoples development.
• Lead on the organisation and delivery of holiday programmes for young people including gaining funding to deliver these.
• Lead on the coordination of Career Taster Days with partner organisations, workshops and tournaments for young people.

Reporting & Compliance

• Responsible for the accurate and efficient collection of impact data, including but not limited to; termly questionnaires, consent forms and registration forms.
• Ensure that session data is uploaded onto UpShot within 24 hours of the session.
• To follow the Dallaglio RugbyWorks processes around reporting incidents and safeguarding concerns to ensure we are protecting young people to the highest standard.
• Ensure that dynamic risk assessments are completed for all sessions and ad hoc activities.
• Provide content for our social media and coordinate the running of a regional social media account.
• Work closely with the rest of the Dallaglio RugbyWorks team to communicate successes of our interventions through case studies and termly reports.
• Work with the Programme Manger to liaise with provisions (schools) to implement service level agreements and ensure they are upheld by both parties.

Development

• Work with the Programme Manager to seek out customers and sell our suite of interventions in your region to meet your school charging income target.
• Responsible for the relationship management of schools and other delivery sites where you have been allocated as the lead. Ensuring contracting is completed in a timely manner, invoices are raised and check in meetings held.
• Work with the Programme manager to establish a network of regional partners that support our interventions and build our reputation.
• Support the relationship management of corporate partners and donors within your region, showing them the value of their support.
• Lead on writing and application of regional trust & foundation bids to meet your regional fundraising target.

Who you are

• Proven experience delivering youth work, mentoring, sports based sessions or working in an educational setting.
• Level 2 sports coaching qualification or level 2 Youth Work qualification (or equivalent).
• Previous experience with programme development and growth.
• Demonstrable passion for using sport as a tool for social development and a drive to help young people have positive and productive futures.
• Awareness of the issues impacting young people today and the kinds of challenges they face.
• Previous experience collecting data and using it to guide performance monitoring.
• Ability to build and develop relationships internally and externally.
• Strong organisational skills with structured and methodical approach to work and a clear focus on results.
• Highly self-motivated to be able to work autonomously to achieve objectives.
• Confident and effective communicator who is able to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Experience coordinating small scale projects.
• Ability to resolve conflict peacefully.
• IT literate and ability to use Microsoft Office Applications.
• Valid UK driving license or access to transport to enable travel within the region.
• Experience working with young people who are disengaged or excluded from education.
• An understanding of schools and the exclusion landscape.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Cycle Scheme.
• Enhanced policies.
• Opportunities to get free entry to our amazing events.
• Ongoing training and support with opportunities for career development.
• An autonomous working culture.

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