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Closing date: 13/06/2021

In July 2022, Birmingham will host the XXII Commonwealth Games, the largest multi-sport event to be held in England in 10 years. Approximately 6,500 athletes and team officials from 72 nations and territories across the Commonwealth will come together in a 12-day celebration of sport and culture. Events will take place across Birmingham and the West Midlands, entertaining more than one million ticketed spectators and reaching a global broadcast audience of more than one billion.

Beyond the planning and delivery of the event, four Games partners are leading on the delivery of ten legacy and benefits (LAB) workstreams, these partners are the B2022 Organising Committee, West Midlands Combined Authority, Birmingham City Council and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Each has a lead role for delivering at least one workstream and partners will measure and evaluate their own activities at project level. This is a complex and wide-ranging legacy programme.

This role will sit within the Generation 2022 team, delivering the Generation 2022 programme. The programme aims to work with young people aged 16 to 24 to offer opportunities connected to the Games that can help boost their skills and future employability.

Volunteers are a highly visible and valuable part of every Games. This is why Games partners have backed a new pre-Games programme for young volunteers, titled ‘Generation 2022’. This will actively seek to involve those who have:

• lost employment or training opportunities as a result of Covid-19;
• who are at risk of being drawn into the criminal justice system; or
• who face barriers in participating in the Games-time volunteering offer.

 The successful candidate will provide consultative work to aid in the design of the programme and the pilot

Responsibilities 

• Advise and shape the emerging programme dynamically alongside the new Generation 2022 team colleagues in the Organising Committee.
• Test assumptions and promote lessons learned adaptations for the Generation 2022 programme based on prior experience working within the sector.
• Engage with young people from key target audiences to help shape the programme and run a pilot with an initial group of young people.
• Work with the Organising Committee’s Community Engagement team and explore opportunities to gather feedback and input from a wide range of parties such as Young Combined Authority, Birmingham City Council’s Youth Panel, Birmingham Care Leaver’s Association, and West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit
• Support the ‘Meet the Games’ pop-up roadshows, either virtually or in person to showcase what Generation 2022 has to offer to these key stakeholders and the local community.
• Produce written outputs from engagement events (e.g. partner forums), capturing feedback and recommendations that can be shared with the wider Generation 2022 team and other relevant partners to inform next steps.

Skills and Experience required 

Essential

• First degree qualification or equivalent experience
• Relevant experience in youth engagement and social action
• Experience of stakeholder management
• Able to quickly build effective working relationships with stakeholders from a range of organisations and levels of seniority
• Excellent written communication, relevant for both preparation of documents (e.g. reports, briefings) as well as sensitive email correspondences
• Able to record and analyse feedback to produce written outputs with recommendations to inform programme development

• Knowledge of and contacts with local community organisations, particularly organisations that work with young people, from a diverse range of communities
• Experience of developing and delivering youth engagement and social action programmes including multi-stakeholder consultation

We are also open to candidates considering this as a Secondment opportunity. 

Salary: £25,000 - £30,000

Start Date: July 2021

Please note that this is a 6-month fixed-term opportunity. Scope for extension will be considered as the programme progresses.

This position is subject to an enhanced criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

Birmingham 2022 is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities. We have received the Leaders in Diversity award through the National Centre for Diversity. The principles "FREDIE" (Fairness - Respect - Equality - Diversity - Inclusion and Engagement) support our aim of delivering a truly inclusive and accessible games.

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. If you wish for your application to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme, please submit a completed form with your application, which can be found on the Birmingham 2022 jobs site under the current vacancies drop down.

To apply for this role please follow the link and complete the application attaching a single document containing your CV and Covering Letter. Please also submit your disability confident/ reasonable adjustments form (if required).

On occasions where we receive a large number of applications, we may close the advert ahead of the publicised closing date. We would therefore advise that you submit your completed application as soon as possible.

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