Streamz is looking for a Young Authors Session Leader:
Location: 143-145 Brixton Road, London SW9 6LZ.
Salary/wage: Up to £20ph.
Commitment: 3 hours a-week.
Responsible to: Project Manager / Chief Executive.
About Streamz
Streamz was founded as a result of the 2011 English Riots. The events that took place during this time
compelled us to empathise, engage and enrich our community.
Our Mission is to be committed to finding innovative approaches to improve the employment prospects
and wellbeing of the community, in order to counter inactivity, unemployment and crime. We run a
number of initiatives in order to fulfil our mission including an online radio station and a literacy and
numeracy group for children.
About Young Authors
As an organisation we realised that our initial strategy of working with NEETs was more of a firefighting
approach, rather than dealing with some of the root causes. We therefore took the step to work with
children at their earlier stages of their development to improve and enhance their life choices – giving
birth to Young Authors.
Young Authors is a weekly, one-hour literacy session supporting children from disadvantaged
communities. This initiative was established in 2017 to inspire children from the ages of 4 to 11 to:
read and write more; improve their literacy; become independent learners and build learning power;
(4) develop their analytical and evaluative skills. During the six-plus years since its inception, these
results have been achieved through engaging teaching, creative lessons and keeping parents involved
in the development of their child.
Young Authors Leaflet 2023-24 (PDF)
Purpose of the Role
The Young Authors Session Leader will work alongside Learning Support Workers to oversee the
activities relating to children and liaise with volunteers, schools and colleges to ensure the project is a
success. The post holder will be responsible for actively recruiting and enrolling the children for the
club.
Tasks and Activities
As the Session Leader for Young Authors, your responsibilities and duties will include the following:
- To plan and prepare activities with Session Support Workers and volunteers
- Organise the venue and set up/pack up resources
- Carryout administrative duties such as the registering children and collection of forms
- Recruit children for the club by liaising with parents and local schools
- Work with children to help develop their literacy skills
- Maintain confidentiality about children and projects as outlined in policies
- Produce half termly reports for Programme Leader/Chief Executive
- Promote the club (e.g. by social media, text, e-mail etc.) relating to club
- Serve children and adults with refreshments as well as provide answers to general queries
- Ensure that the working environment is safe for both children and adults.
What will you gain?
As a Session Leader, you will:
- Be given personalised training around on how to use plan effective sessions
- Gain access to a pool of lessons resources
- Develop amazing and transferrable skills to work within a teaching context
Who will the role suit?
Someone with:
- A desire to see the life chances of young people improve
- People skills and good communication
- Creative ideas and a passion for teaching
- Someone available to work 4hrs pw Monday to Friday
More informatiuon and to apply
Please contact Streamz:
- https://www.streamz.org.uk/
- Phone 0208 583 7787
- Email: info@streamz.org.uk