Club Doncaster is the brand that connects Doncaster's elite sports teams. We also manage the delivery of events at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium, and associated Elite Performance Centre, Sports Village, Foundation, Sports College, and Impact Programmes.
We are more than just a sports club, we use every day as a chance to improve people's lives, using sport as an engagement tool.
We look to recruit people with the desire to work within all areas of Club Doncaster who demonstrate integrity, compassion, pride and honesty and a desire to continuously improve themselves and those around them.
Impact Doncaster is a key part of the Club Doncaster organisation.
Through the National Citizen Service (NCS), and other funded essential life skills and development programmes, Impact is one of the main ways in which we engage and enhance lives through all manner of activities.
From working within schools to delivering employability and outbound activity programmes to young adults, no day or month is ever the same within the department.
A rare opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the team, and lead on a number of programmes and initiatives within the Impact remit. The senior project officer will be responsible for the delivery of our life skills and vulnerable young people engagement programmes. While this will vary in respect of the programme brief, some of the work for this role will be around the NCS programme, engaging our varied communities.
The successful applicant will be required to lead on the engagement of organisations and groups across Doncaster and help to ensure that our project outcomes meet the expectations of our funder and the young people we aim to reach out to.
This exciting position allows us to develop our high-quality projects across Doncaster, and support the continued growth of Impact, and in turn, outcomes for participants, and Doncaster as a community.
This will include the collation of data and planning for our funding partners, such as the EFL Trust Premier League, and local / national governments. In addition to working with the recruitment and social media leads to ensure that, we plan, deliver and evaluate projects effectively.
The successful applicant should have previous knowledge and experience of working within a community and youth group setting, and experience of engaging individuals, groups, and organisations as to the benefit of life skill projects for young people.
All applicants should be comfortable liaising with a wide variety of audiences, and able to liaise with a wide variety of partners to meet expectations.
Main duties will include:
- Supporting the programme manager and other project staff to plan, develop, and review life skill projects.
- Co-ordinating internal monitoring systems, ensuring the consistent engagement of new and existing organisations across Doncaster.
- Contributing to the delivery of specific projects to create life long memories and skills for participants.
- Support the programmes manager to mentor and guide temporary and sessional staff on project.
- To work closely with partnership organisations, to maintain good relationships and collaborative working practices.
- To work with colleagues throughout Club Doncaster to extend knowledge and skills in order to identify and develop best practice.
- Dealing with enquiries and general day-to-day liaison with customers, colleagues and partners.
Please be aware that a criminal disclosure and identity check will be carried out on the successful applicant prior to any offer of employment, in line with Club Doncaster's safeguarding culture and procedures.
Club Doncaster is also committed to ensuring to the highest standards of safeguarding, we are an equal opportunities employer and keen to hear from all persons who feel that this would be the right role for them.
If you would like to apply for the role, please submit a CV, and cover letter as to why you feel you fully meet the criteria to HR manager Kirsty Cavanagh by Monday January 21 2018.
Or via postal application to:
Keepmoat Stadium
Stadium Way
Doncaster
DN4 5JW
Please note that only applications who have completed the full application instructions will be considered for the post.