Aberdeen Community Delivery Coordinator

Contract: 37.5 hours per week. Contract: 2 years fixed term. Salary: £29,098 (Grade PA8 to PA11). Location: Remote with frequent travel around Aberdeen and surrounding areas. A driving license and car are essential for the role and travel expenses will be reimbursed.

We’re looking for a friendly, motivated person to join our team. The Community Delivery Coordinator will support the delivery of the MCR Pathways mentoring programme in Aberdeen City and surrounding areas. You will support our volunteer mentors and young people, ensuring they receive individualised support and remain fully engaged throughout their mentoring journey.

You will be responsible for the timely recording and updating of internal mentor recruitment documentation, supporting mentor recruitment, and assisting with the delivery of in-school and community-based mentoring and group work.

• Manage your own caseload of young people and mentors, from initial referral and relationship building to active programme participation.
• Help with the recruitment, interviewing and training of volunteers, including conducting PVG safeguarding checks.
• Facilitate and support the “matchmaking” process to ensure young people are paired with the most suitable mentors rapidly and effectively.
• Conduct regular progress evaluations, providing both support and constructive challenge to monitor the impact of the programme.
• Work with the regional team to help drive mentor recruitment to the targets needed for your area.
• Maintain accurate records and produce high-quality case studies to satisfy funding and quality assurance requirements.

• Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people, education colleagues, volunteer mentors, key partners and community organisations.
• Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Ability and confidence to present programme information and deliver prepared training sessions to groups.
• Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young people and organisational needs.
• An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people and young adults may encounter.
• Experience or knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.
• Good knowledge of the local area, including community groups, employers and local organisations.
• You should be a “people person”, open-minded and happy talking to large groups as well as having one-to-one chats.

MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland as well as North East and South East England. We are committed to helping the country’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential.

Our mission: To connect every young person with a trusted adult mentor, someone who sparks confidence, fuels ambition, and walks beside them as they find their way.

Our vision: MCR Pathways will work until every young person has someone to help them find their way. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. MCR Pathways’ values are Respect, Communication, Trust and Growth and they inform everything we do.

• 30 days annual leave in first year rising to 35 days from 2nd year of employment.
• 3 further days of annual leave between the December and January public holidays.
• Additional day off for your birthday.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• 7% Employer Pension Contribution.
• Life Assurance – 4 x salary.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. If you are invited to an interview, you may require reasonable adjustments to be made. MCR Pathways currently offers two guaranteed interview schemes aimed at helping candidates with a disability and those who are care experienced successfully navigate the recruitment process. For the care experienced scheme, we mean if you are or have ever been in foster care, residential care or kinship care. Please note: to qualify, you must demonstrate in your application that you meet the Essential criteria list in the person specification.