About The Role
CoppaFeel! is looking for an Engagement & Inclusion Assistant to take on an exciting role in supporting the growth and development of our youth engagement and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work. As we continue to expand our youth engagement efforts, this role will be crucial in helping us achieve our strategic objective of being youth-focused and ensuring that both youth engagement and EDI are meaningfully and intentionally integrated into everything we do.
In this role, you’ll work closely with the Engagement and Inclusion Manager to assist in the implementation and delivery of the youth engagement and EDI strategies. You will support the day-to-day operations of our youth and EDI programmes, playing a central role in driving our current three-year strategy forward. Your efforts will help ensure our chest-checking message reaches all young people in a way that is engaging, relevant, and accessible to everyone in our target audience.
This is a hybrid role, with the expectation that you will work from the London office 2 days per week. You will be required to be in the office for quarterly team meetings, department meetings and in person training, we will provide plenty of notice for when you are required to be in for these purposes.
You will report to the Engagement & Inclusion Manager and you will sit within the Education Team.
The Role
Duties & Responsibilities
- Developing, managing and sustaining great relationships with a range of youth focused and EDI organisations (including but not limited to schools, colleges, sixth forms, youth clubs, local authorities, grassroots organisations, communities and charities).
- Providing administrative support before, during and after engagement events and activities, such as processing expenses and travel claims, providing support on virtual meetings, finding and booking venues, ordering food, posting gifts and thank you cards.
- Coordinating the communications with the Youth Network and collaborating with other departments within CoppaFeel! to promote any new opportunities.
- Work closely with our Marketing team to develop assets for promotional use, including outreach and recruitment of the youth network on social media.
- Maintain accurate and up to date activity records on our new incoming CRM platform (Beacon).
- Capturing and recording data to support our evaluation of engagement programmes and the impact reporting of the wider Education team.
- Support the delivery of existing youth engagement projects such as our CoppaFeel! Challenge for college students.
- Provide support to the Engagement & Inclusion Manager as required for new and existing project delivery; such as administrative and outreach support for youth engagement and awareness programmes.
- Providing adhoc support across our EDI programmes and activities.
- Managing and responding to awareness and engagement enquiries through the Education inbox.
- Work to promote our EDI aims across our engagement work.
- Stay up to date and engage meaningfully with relevant thought pieces, trends, and movements in EDI and youth engagement through continued learning, self-reflection and training.
Essential
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- An affinity for youth engagement, community and social purpose work
- Experience championing underserved communities professionally and/or personally
- Excellent administrative skills
- Experience of providing support within a busy team
- Excellent organisational skills to manage conflicting priorities
- Excellent and compassionate communications skills
- Strong IT skills, with the ability to pick up new systems quickly
- Ability to work unassisted and be self motivated
- Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information
- Friendly and approachable with the ability to quickly build and maintain strong working relationships at all levels across the organisation and with external networks
Desirable
- Worked in youth engagement or similar roles
- Worked in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Lived experience as an individual from a marginalised background
Given the nature of this work we feel it is important to recruit someone with the relevant skills, expertise, and lived experience. Therefore, we are actively seeking applications from people who belong to our target demographic of 18 - 24 year olds and from marginalised young people.
Application information
Applications will close on 15th November with the aim to commence interviews on W/C 25th November.
CoppaFeel! reserves the right to close the vacancy early in the event that we receive a high number of applications before the closing date.
Main Benefits, Terms & Conditions
Annual Leave: 22 days pro rata (plus public holidays). Additional Leave: 1 day of leave on our Founder’s Cancerversary, birthday leave, plus office closure over Christmas.
A hybrid of office and flexible, working Daily Flexi Time: starting anytime between 8am and 10am. Working from home up to 3 days per week (pro rata).
Training: We have a budget each year for employees training and development plans.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement
At CoppaFeel!, we support a diverse range of communities and we understand that diversity within our team is central and crucial to meeting the needs of the young people we exist to serve. We strongly encourage applications from Black, and people of colour, LGBTQIA+ candidates, candidates with disabilities, from men, and from those with a lived experience of cancer because we would like to increase the representation of these groups within the charity.
We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace and make recruitment decisions by matching the charity's needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We recognise the value in encouraging a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge at the charity.
While the successful candidate will be selected purely on merit, in the event of a tie between two candidates with equal suitability, we may select a candidate with lived experience of the issues we are seeking to address through our work.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and we commit to offering an interview for all applicants with disabilities who meet our required criteria for the role. If you have any accessibility requirements or need any adjustments for the interview process please get in touch.
