NCS (National Citizen Service) is a government-backed initiative with a mission to equip 15-17 year olds with the confidence, skills and support they need to make a real difference in their communities. The aim is to encourage young people from different backgrounds to mix through a local, community-based programme.
Company Description
Twin employs around 100 full-time and seasonal staff across the UK who share a commitment to changing lives by providing high quality services to people from the UK and abroad. These services include education, training programmes, work placements, employment and volunteer opportunities, which are all designed to help people achieve their personal and professional goals.
Our mission is to help people realise their full potential through life enhancing experiences.
Boost your skills, top up your student loan, and give back to your community with NCS throughout July and August 2021!
Salary:
Daily residential rate: £92.4
Daily non-residential rate: £76.5
2021 NCS Programme
NCS (National Citizen Service) is a government-backed initiative with a mission to equip 15-17 year olds with the confidence, skills and support they need to make a real difference in their communities. The aim is to encourage young people from different backgrounds to mix through a local, community-based programme.
In the first week (Mon-Fri), based at a residential centre away from home, teams of young people supported by staff will take part in challenging outdoor team building activities. In the remaining two weeks (Mon-Fri), delivered from a local hub, young people will build their confidence and other life skills, and then design and deliver a project that benefits their local community utilising the skills they’ve built throughout the entire programme.
In these two weeks (Mon-Fri), delivered from a local hub, young people will build their confidence and other life skills, and then design and deliver a project that benefits their local community utilising the skills they’ve built throughout the entire programme.
Twin offers a fixed-term contract and aims to provide longer employment consisting of a few waves. This is however, subject to the performance on the programme and young people numbers.
Additional opportunities in our Autumn 2021 programme may become available to those that will have worked on our summer programme(s) and received positive feedback.
Locations: North East & South East London
About the role
Come and work for Twin, a delivery partner of NCS, this summer and become a role model for a team of 15-17 year olds throughout our youth and community programme. We are looking to fill around 200 positions.
Team Leaders lead groups of young people through the NCS programme, encouraging them to bond as a team and fully engage with the curriculum, and will be supported by the Assistant Team Leader to plan and deliver engaging activity sessions, facilitate discussions, guide and mentor young people.
Principle accountabilities:
Person specification
An ideal Team Leader candidate would have:
This role is perfect for a highly motivated and enthusiastic self-starter, ideally with youth work background.
The role may require long working hours and night shifts during the residential weeks of the programme.
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