Heritage Participation and Engagement Worker
The Kingsley Hall Heritage Project is an ambitious, participatory project to transform Kingsley Hall, the charity’s Grade II* listed home in Bristol, into a safe and welcoming centre where the region’s most disadvantaged young people can rebuild their lives. 1625 is now recruiting to build the Heritage Activity Team, an inclusive, skilled team that will engage young people in co-creation of the project, maximise opportunities for them to build experience and skills, and deliver a high-quality, innovative five-year activity plan.
The Kingsley Hall project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to develop and now deliver our plans to transform Kingsley Hall - our charity’s base and Grade 2* listed building - into a welcoming space that will provide training, support and housing for young people who have been homeless, at risk of homelessness or are leaving care.
Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 12 February 2025.
As part of this exciting heritage project, we are recruiting a project team member to:
1. Deliver an exciting engaging heritage activities programme co-produced and co-delivered with young people.
2. Support a pool of young volunteers in co-production roles – overseeing their progression and development.
3. Lead a series of creative projects bringing together young people, freelancers and partner agencies working in the education and youth sectors.
You will join a small team of three with the opportunity to lead on various aspects of the project and support a trainee on placement. We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritized ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.
If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.
Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.
What you will be doing:
* Outreach internally and with partner agencies to recruit young people into the heritage project.
* Support young people to take on co-production roles alongside staff – heritage youth board, peer educators, co-trainers.
* Work with young people, partners and creative professionals on a series of heritage themed projects e.g. documentary film, oral histories, food heritage.
* Record and evaluate activities to identify impacts.
You will be in our Participation and Learning Team and your line manager will be our Senior Heritage Activity Co-ordinator.
Contract details
* Contract type: Permanent
* Pay: £29,572 - £31,067 per annum starting at the bottom of the scale
* The location: Kingsley Hall, Bristol (alternative venue when building is closed)
A few benefits at 1625ip
* A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays.
* Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF.
* A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing.
* “I feel grateful to work here every day! The work feels useful and worthwhile, and I feel like I am able to make a difference for our young people” (From Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2023).
* “I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!”
* 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.
Application information
Ready to see yourself in this rewarding role? We can’t wait to hear from you.
* You will be asked to answer 5 questions at the end of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
* Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form.
* Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred.
Equitable opportunities for everyone
We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications.
As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly.
We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer.
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