Youth Event Coordinators, All of Scotland, 3 months
Bad Idea Organisation is currently looking for 7 Youth Event Coordinators to join their team in a field based role covering, either:
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Perth
- Stirling
- Dundee
- Aberdeen
- Inverness
Bad Idea believes in a place for all after education. The organisation’s mission is to ‘inspire entrepreneurial spirit in young people through the celebration of creativity and innovation’. Bad Idea’s objectives are to empower pupils with entrepreneurial and personal (soft) skills so that they have the confidence and self-belief to pursue their aspirations, and inspire others around them.
The Youth Event Coordinator is a new and exciting role within the Bad Idea Organization with a lot of flexibility and the ability to grow the role and make it your own. The role will consist of engaging with young people and helping them on their learning journey through our flagship youth enterprise competition, and also local business and support agency engagement.
As part of the youth enterprise competition you will facilitate the workshops designed to turn the individuals’ creative ideas for products and services into reality and compete for cash prizes and on-going business support.
With regard to business development, there are some referrals although you will be required to engage directly with secondary schools and local services yourself. This will include building close relationships with local schools, youth groups and organisations. You will also be required to carry out Employer Engagement activities such as contacting local employers to encourage them to consider offering work experience placements and apprenticeships. This may involve contact on the telephone and face-to-face.
To be considered for this role you will need to be a confident and effective communicator and be able to engage well with young people, aged 12+. Employer Engagement skills (Business development / liaison with employers) would be preferred as this will also be a requirement of the role.
You must be able to work on your own initiative and be able to effectively organise your own diary. This role will involve travel throughout the whole of the city region you are responsible for, so the ability to travel and willingness to work in different locations is essential. Please indicate your preferred city as your work location in your application.
Location: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen or Inverness
Hours: Minimum 30 hours per week for 3 months
Pay: £7.65 per hour
Benefits: Business mileage paid 45p per mile
Travel: Throughout the city you are responsible for
To Apply:
This is a funded placement by the Santander scheme so we can only accept students from the following universities:
- The University of Aberdeen
- The University of Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Napier University
- Heriot-Watt Unviersity
- The University of Glasgow
- Glasgow Caledonian Unviersity
- Strathclyde University
- Queen Margaret University
- The University of Stirling
- St. Andrews University
Apply online now to start your e-Placement Scotland journey with Bad Idea.