We have an amazing opportunity for a creative Senior Heritage Activities Co-ordinator to inspire and involve young people in our Kingsley Hall Heritage Project, a unique project made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). Thanks to National Lottery players, we can develop 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 or are leaving care. 

Leading on volunteering and young people’s participation, this is a unique opportunity to use your creative and participatory approach to build and lead partnerships involving young people and volunteers from heritage groups, educational and youth organisations. These co-production partnerships are at the heart of this unique project, with young people participating in every aspect. Through co-design of the new building and piloting a fresh programme of heritage activities, we want to use heritage as a platform to transform young people’s lives.

For more information about the Kingsley Hall Heritage Project see: www.1625ip.co.uk/kingsley-hall 

Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Tuesday 14 February 2023 

Who we are: 
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.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from ethnic minority groups 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. 

What you will be doing:

• Inspiring and motivating young people to work alongside partners and volunteers to design and deliver all aspects of the heritage activities programme.
• Recruiting and co-ordinating a youth project board.
• Building effective partnerships with heritage organisations, universities, and other youth organisations to bring young people, volunteers and experts together shape the development and design of our project.
• Using your excellent project planning skills, you will manage multiple workstreams involving young people and partners.
• Piloting and delivering activities such as historical research into the building/area/people; creative projects linked to social change and social action; market research to inform the building’s design and function.
• Writing up activities that will form part of our heritage activities plan.
• Using your leadership and people skills to work directly with young people, partners and volunteers, and also effectively delegating tasks to others in the small team you will manage.
• Using sound evaluation skills, you will help identify what works and what doesn’t.
• Bringing together your knowledge of the heritage sector with a participatory approach to ensure the project meets NHLF requirements.   

You will be in the Participation and Learning (PaL) team and your line manager will be our Participation and Learning Manager.

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job. 

If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.

What we are offering:

• An opportunity to play a key role in a transformational project
• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
• Employee Health Cash Plan with UK Healthcare (up to level 2)
• Regular support and supervision
• Flexible working scheme
• A friendly and supportive team 

Contract details: 

• Hours per week: 37.5 (this represents FTE)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay: £30,151- £32,909 per annum (NJC Scale 23 – 26) starting at the bottom of the scale
• The location: Your base will be our Kingsley Hall office, close to Bristol’s main train and bus stations as well as the vibrant Bristol city centre. There is also flexibility and support to manage working from home.

Important dates: 

• Application deadline closes: 23:59 Tuesday 14 February 2023.
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Monday 20 February 2023, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. 
• Interviews will be on Thursday 2 and/or Friday 3 March 2023.