Duke of Edinburgh Award Coordinator

Employer: Greater Manchester Youth Federation

Job title: Duke of Edinburgh Award Coordinator

Contract: Permanent position

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Location: Greater Manchester (Base is in Partington, and will be required to work at centres across Greater Manchester)

Responsible to: Outdoor Education Manager

Salary: £27,334-£30,825

About GMYF – Creating Opportunities and Supporting Aspiration

GMYF is a long-established charity, that works with young people across Greater Manchester to support their aspirations and create opportunities.

We are going through an exciting and transformational period. Historically we have acted as an ‘umbrella’ organisation supporting our affiliated clubs, but we also now have our own Youth and Community Centre in Partington and have just opened another in Charlestown, with a view of opening more in the future. Doing this is providing support for young people with a wide range of activities and directly delivering on our charitable objectives. We have expanded our team to include youth leaders, support staff and an outdoor education team, who has established us as a Licensed Organisation for Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE).  GMYF jointly own an outdoor education centre in Cumbria, giving our young people incredible experiences. Our fantastic team is already delivering great results and making a real difference to the lives of many young people. We are now ready to employ our first Duke of Edinburgh Award Co-ordinator to lead our ongoing development of the award scheme across our centres.

The aims for our outdoor education team are:

• Provide the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme at minimal cost to our youth centres
• Create more DofE centres in our growing number of youth centres
• Increase opportunities to our young people across Greater Manchester to access outdoor education activities, including events and residentials

The Role

Reporting to the Outdoor Education Manager, this role will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the DofE Award Scheme and outdoor education opportunities in our youth centres across Greater Manchester. The role specific accountabilities are listed below.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

• Manage the DofE across multiple DofE centres
• Create, promote and deliver a high quality DofE programme offer
• Working alongside our outdoor education instructors plan and support DofE expeditions
• Adhere to all expedition operating procedures and risk assessments
• Create new DofE expedition routes, including obtaining necessary consents, reconnaissance and risk management
• Collect and record data as appropriate to support evaluation of DofE
• Maintain partnerships with partners who support the DofE Award Scheme
• Plan and organise DofE award ceremonies
• Represent GMYF attending DofE meetings and events

Other responsibilities

• Support the Outdoor Education Manager in coordinating trips and residentials
• Drive the GMYF minibus where required (DofE expeditions and outdoor education trips and residentials)
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the Outdoor Education Manager
• Collect and create content for reporting, promotional material and social media

Qualifications, experiences, skills and capabilities

Essential

• 2 years experience working with young people in either a formal or informal position e.g. school or youth setting
• Knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for the DofE Award Scheme
• Experience planning and running expeditions and residential trips including holding a Lowland Leader qualification (or willingness to obtain in 1^st three months of employment)
• Safeguarding training level 2 (or willing to gain in 1^st month of employment) First aid certificate (or willing to gain in 1^st month of employment)
• Full driving license
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners
• Ability to undertake research, analysis and insight where required
• Excellent level of numeracy, literacy and ICT
• Good IT skills in using and managing documents and databases
• Good time management and the ability to prioritise workload
• Experience of working to set targets and timescales

Desirable

• Experience in leading / supporting young people in outdoor education activities
• D1 license (or commitment to undertake MIDAS minibus training within first 3 months of employment)
• L3 Qualification in youth work or commitment to undertake training as appropriate
• Experience in collecting and creating content for social media or marketing purposes

Working arrangements

As the role includes working with young people, there will be an expectation of working during evenings, some weekends and some weeks within school holidays.  Days in lieu will be given for weekend and bank holiday work and a TOIL arrangement to accommodate exceptional working.

As part of employment with GMYF the role requires a successful Enhanced DBS check.

This role requires travel across Greater Manchester; therefore, the applicant needs to have access to a vehicle with business insurance, or willingness to use public transport as necessary will be required.

Holiday allowance is 25 working days (increasing 1 day per year for length of service up to a maximum of 30 days) plus statutory bank holidays. A 35-hour working week with flexibility to work from home as agreed with the Outdoor Education Manager.

We operate a 5 % employer contributory pension scheme (defined contribution scheme).

Mobile phone and laptop provided.

How to apply

Please provide a CV with details of experience and qualifications relevant to the above, plus a summary of why you believe you are qualified to be successful in the role. Please email these to Grace Beasley at the email address below.

Closing date: 12 noon 28^th April 2025

Interviews: to be held at Partington Youth Centre on Tuesday 6^th May 2025

For an informal conversation about the role, you can contact: Grace Beasley on 07384 981045

Grace Beasley

Outdoor Education Manager

[email protected]