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Creative Sustainability CIC
Fromehall Mill
Lodgemore Lane
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 3EH
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Outdoor Activities Lead
Stroud
Are you our new Outdoor Activities Lead? This role is for someone who loves outdoors, working with young people, and who wants to bring nature to all our fabulous youth programmes. You will model great practice in inclusive outdoor opportunities for young people in Gloucestershire:
- Creating outdoor activities both on and off-site, for fun, interest, confidence building and learning
- Enabling young people to develop and maintain friendships through shared interests and experiences
- Supporting connections with nature-based volunteering and work opportunities
- Sharing learning through networks including Ernest Cook’s and Barnwood’s Access to Nature collaborations
- Building and enhancing the vision for an inclusive and positive future for young people.
The salary range is £27,300 to £29,700, subject to experience, and we offer loads of nice benefits too.
We are committed to an inclusive and equal opportunities recruitment process and therefore do not ask for a traditional CV and cover letter unless this is your preference. We equally welcome a short film or voice recording. Whatever your method please ensure that you at the least demonstrate:
How you fit with our values, ways of working and as a team player
Your experience and interests relating to this role
Your commitment to people and planet
We like to give great people opportunities, so please don’t be put off from applying because of your work history or your past. We are a Gloucestershire Equal Employer.
Specific Tasks and Responsibilities
• Work with young people to plan and evaluate a wide range of opportunities to meet all needs, interests and enthusiasms, using our coproduction and evaluation practices and tools.
• Work with the youth team to plan support for every young person to participate according to specific needs, including financial, travel, social, emotional, mental and physical needs.
• Work with the Operations Lead, to plan practitioners, locations, transport for activities and camps as needed.
• Plan, purchase, store food and consumables for activities and camps as needed.
• Lead on planning, delivery and evaluation for CS’s outdoor learning and experiences, working with the youth team on budgets, health and safety (risk assessment), and safeguarding.
• Organise existing and source new for all the necessary kit, including storage, maintenance and repairs for every activity, and keep appropriate logs and records as required.
• Transport people and kit to sites in the South West and Wales, driving a mini-bus or transit vehicle.
• Set up and strike camps – including bell tents, gala tents, toilet tents and pits, water stations and field kitchen, sometimes in remote places and on rough terrain.
• Represent CS at key nature network events, collaborate and share learning and practice, and promote inclusion of disabled and marginalised young people in nature-based places and activities
• Communicate activities and opportunities on CS website and social media channels, creating new films, written and photographic material.
• Communicate with participants and guardians in liaison with the youth team.
• Brief CS staff, volunteers and practitioners to plan and deliver high quality and great practice on all activities
Mutual Expectations
We will
• Provide training, resources and support to enable fulfilment of your duties, including thorough induction, advanced safeguarding and first aid course, and inclusion training.
• Support peer-to-peer learning in youth and community work, planning, evaluation and CS practices.
• Support flexi time with weekend and evening work inevitable, with paid overtime for residentials.
• Provide company pension after one month.
• Enable 33 days holiday plus two days volunteering/action days and two days for overland European travel.
• Support professional development with regular supervision and team learning days.
• Set you up with bike if you want one! Parking on site and a 10 mins walk from Stroud Town.
We encourage you to
• Proactively seek and participate in relevant training and learning such as education for sustainable development, land skills, about ecological systems and natural resources.
• Expand and consolidate your practice and knowledge by utilising time for reflection and learning.
• Independently plan and manage your workload, holidays and other commitments, and to anticipate and communicate any concerns as they arise.
• Plan and make time for administrative tasks including planning, reporting, evaluation and record keeping, and make full use of tools and resources to track and store information.
• Take an interest in the social impacts of climate change and environmental degradation and consider personal impact on nature, so that you can model and share your values and practice.
Personal Criteria
It is essential that you have an “understanding of disabled young people, Autism and people who see the world differently” (quote from one of our young people) in addition to the following:
• Experience of working with marginalised young people.
• Warm and inclusive attitude to people of all ages and backgrounds.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, born of good will and kindness to all.
• Enthusiasm for outdoor learning, the natural world and general physical activity outdoors.
• Strength to schlepp heavy kit around sites, and keep going until the job is done.
• Willingness to take on unexpected tasks and challenges arising from weather, or people.
• Great social media platforms and film editing skills – you will make films for all CS youth projects.
• Personal organisational skills including time management and managing information.
• Full driving licence and willingness to drive a minibus and transit vehicle (training provided).
To download the application form click on Apply Now.
Closing date for applications: Application deadline 5pm Monday 17th March.
Salary: £27,300 - £29,700
Hours Per Week: 37.5
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