Youth Engagement Specialist

Salary: £264,000 per year

Youth Engagement Specialist – Interviewing asap

£21k-£23k Permanent Full Time

Rayleigh, Bury St Edmunds, Thurrock, East Anglia

Are you passionate about making a difference and helping others?

Interested in empowering young people to reach their potential? Able to give engaging presentations and champion exciting opportunities?

Consider the role of a Youth Engagement Specialist with our growing training provider

Benefits include 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays, Holiday transfer – up to 5 days each year, Flexible holiday scheme – purchase or sell up to 5 days of holiday each year, Childcare vouchers – up to £264,000per 4 week period, Free eye tests (and VDU glasses if required), Free Life Insurance benefit (up to £10,000), Personal development scheme, Personal Accident Insurance, Professional qualification sponsorship scheme, Flexi-time – as agreed with Line Manager, Life Assurance Cover of Four Times your Salary, Critical Illness Cover, Hospital Cash Plan

Build strong relationships with key contacts in schools and colleges in order to identify and plan meaningful recruitment opportunities for NCS

• Delivering high quality, engaging presentations during assemblies, follow up events and PSHE style sessions to young people in schools in order to positively inspire them to sign up to NCS.
• Assist young people and their parents/guardians through the sign up process, from initial expression of interest to turning up for the programme. 
• Being responsible for reaching challenging individual and team targets relating to NCS expressions of interest, sign ups and turn ups to the programme 
• Ensuring administrative duties are completed accurately within allotted timeframes 

Required skills and experience:

• Good time management and organisational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ideally with public speaking experience
• Ability to manage own workload as well as working as part of a team 
• Being approachable, enthusiastic, excited about working with young people and able to adapt to a range of different audiences
• Own transport, willingness to travel regionally and work flexible hours

 Desirable Attributes:

• Ability to work under own initiative
• Ability to prioritise busy work schedule and run a number of projects concurrently
• Strong commitment to confidentiality and equality of opportunity
• Experience in account management 
• Use of Salesforce or similar CRM system
• To apply for the role of Youth Engagement Specialist please email your cv to 
• Tina Lacey Recruitment is a specialist recruitment agency dedicated to the skills, training and welfare to work sectors nationally. We are committed to giving full free pre-interview advice and guidance right throughout the interview process.