Job: Elections Outreach Officer, UK Youth Parliament

Employer: UK Youth Parliament
Posted: 08 May 2008
Location: London
Sector: Central government / Government agency
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Position: Elections Outreach Officer
Salary: £23,001 - £28,228 + £2,500 LW

Want to make a real difference? Want a job devoted to improving the fabric of society and working with young people from across the UK? Want to be part of a genuinely youth-led organisation? The UK Youth Parliament is recruiting two new posts to enable us to strengthen and extend two areas of our outreach and partnership work.

Elections Outreach Officer

The UK Youth Parliament annual election process supports over 400,000 young people a year to take part in elections and to learn more about the democratic process.

We want to extend that work to develop tools to reach out to young people not in formal education, to make them aware of democracy structures and encourage electoral registration. This will involve working with young people to develop tools to enable this work, direct delivery of sessions with the target group, and providing resources to UK Youth Parliament partners to enable them to enhance and extend their own practice.

Details for posts:

For each post we are looking for a dynamic person with at least three years’ practical experience in the youth field with a strong track record of building partnerships and arranging events. Good awareness of policy issues relating to the individual posts (democratic engagement and community cohesion/preventing extremism) will also be tested.

Location: With offices across the country we can offer flexibility with location. We’re looking for the best people. Our Head Office is currently at 8 Wakley Street, London, EC1V 7QE, though we will shortly be moving to another London location.

Salary: £23,001 - £28,228 plus £2,500 London weighting if applicable.

Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week).

To obtain more details of these posts, please email recruitment@ukyouthparliament.org.uk, or telephone 0207 843 6052. Alternatively you may download the details from our website – www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk

Closing date: Friday 30th May

Interview date: w/c 9th June