Spear Leeds - Lead Coach

Are you a confident and experienced leader, with a heart for social justice and passionate about positively transforming society? Then this could be the role for you. Join us as our next Lead Coach, and use your leadership and interpersonal skills to deliver the Spear Programme in Leeds. You’ll be working with Bridge Community Church to manage the delivery of Resurgo's award-winning Spear Programme. Over the last 20+ years, Spear has equipped more than 11,000 young people across the UK with the work-ready skills and mindset they need to succeed in employment, no matter the barriers they face. We believe each young person has huge potential. If you do too, and you have the skills and heart to see their lives transformed – join us.

The important stuff

• Location: Leeds, office-based
• Salary: £23,690 - £26,780
• Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
• Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 5.30pm with some out-of-hours work needed for events such as our Spear Celebrations
• Closing date: We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Delivery of Spear Programme - Group and 1:1 coaching [60%]
  • Preparing and coaching Spear Foundation sessions and 1-1s, ensuring that young people are engaged, retained and work-ready by the end of this initial phase of the programme.
  • Building relationships with young people on the programme and managing culture and attitudes in the training room.
  • Adapting the Spear coaching material according to the needs of the Trainees and managing behaviour effectively.
• Delivery of Spear Career [20%]
  • Delivering weekly Spear Career sessions (including running workshops with past Trainees), maintaining records and reporting on statistics, and creatively developing ongoing relationships with Spear Trainees.
• Training the Assistant Coach [10%]
  • Contributing towards the training and developing of the Assistant Coach by modelling excellent coaching and giving regular feedback.
• Trainee recruitment [10%]
  • Developing relationships with Job Centres and local referral agencies to ensure that the maximum number of Spear Trainees are enrolled on each programme. This involves liaising with referral agencies, active face-to-face recruitment and monitoring recruitment statistics.
• Continuous professional development
  • Continually engaging in professional development, including being part of Resurgo’s wider coaching programmes and supporting the Programme Managers with overall team training and development.
• Active participation in and support for church team and mission
  • Engage with Sunday services, and establish a strong personal presence, including speaking at church/events if required, contributing to prayer meetings, and demonstrating spiritual leadership as per Resurgo’s Christian ethos and the mission of the church.

Personal qualities we're looking for:

• An active Christian, passionate about personally representing the values and beliefs of Resurgo and Bridge Community Church
• You have demonstrable experience as a coach, or a background in youth work or teaching, and are keen to develop these skills further
• You have a heart for young people and releasing their potential, no matter what challenging circumstances they are facing
• Effective interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence with a sense of humour and fun
• You are great at building relationships, with solid communication skills
• Good administrative and organisational skills, working well under pressure with the ability to prioritise workload

You can expect:

• Excellent benefits including Health Insurance, access to Cycle to Work scheme, and enhanced parental leave, dependants leave, and sick leave policies with income protection
• A genuine commitment to upskilling you through impressive training opportunities:
• Support and funding to complete your professional coaching accreditation once you have completed enough coaching hours
• Progression opportunities through professional development 1-1s
• Equipping you to have autonomy in your role, through a culture of ‘high challenge, high support’
• A fun, supportive culture where you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work
• A worshipping community, where you can pray and worship with your colleagues
• Autumn staff conference day, plus a Christmas retreat

A couple of things to note:

• This role requires occasional evening work, for our termly Spear Celebrations (where we celebrate our trainees as they complete the initial six weeks of the programme)
• In the event of a job offer, a DBS check will be requested