Position: City Year Site Leader Opportunity closing date: 26 January 2015 Opportunity type: Employment City Year South Africa is a national youth service programme that unites diverse groups of young people for a year of voluntary service and leadership development. City Year South Africa seeks to appoint a Site Leader, based in the areas we serve in Gauteng. The successful candidate will act as the custodians of City Year’s youth programme. S/he is primarily responsible for ensuring that Service Leaders (volunteers) carry out their service obligations to the community, as well as for their overall well-being and development. S/he will report to the Site Manager. Job Grade: B Lower Responsibilities: • Liaise with the Site Manager to determine the schedule for the service activities: organise the weekly and monthly activities of Service Leaders in line with those activities agreed upon by the Site Manager, and determine with the Service Leaders how the activities will be undertaken; • Ensure that Service Leaders undertake the agreed upon service activities: support the team to carry out their tasks; assist the team to address issues as they arise; ensure that the team has the necessary resources to carry out their tasks; monitor the activities to ensure that they are carried out to acceptable standards as determined by the Site Manager; • Address any issues, in consultation with the Site Manager, that may arise in the course of implementation: raise concerns with the Site Manager where problems arise when undertaking service activities; report to the Site Manager where there appears to be the need to change the nature of the service activity; • Ensure that Service Leaders undertake the different components of the programme and are able to reflect on the manner in which these different parts are integrated: Join the team and participate with them when they attend life skills and technical training; hold reflective sessions with Service Leaders to facilitate learning. Requirements: • Knowledge of integrated learning; • Knowledge of youth service, the youth sector, youth culture and citizenship; • Ability to define boundaries; • Excellent communication skills; • Demonstrated report writing ability; • Listening, observation and interpersonal skills; • Ability to connect and build rapport with young people; • Emotional control, discipline; • Ability to work well on a team; • Maturity and strong leadership skills. Entry level Site Leaders will be supported and guided in the required knowledge competencies but they are expected to have the cognitive ability to understand and apply the concept of integrated learning. To apply, submit a CV, copy of your ID, contact details of three referees and motivation letter with Application for Site Leader position in the subject line to [email protected] Submissions without the required documents will not be accepted. Should you not hear from City Year South Africa within three weeks of the closing date, consider your application unsuccessful. For more about City Year South Africa, refer to cityyear.org.za cityyear.org.za/ City Year brings together a diverse group of young people for a year of voluntary service, civic engagement and leadership development. Together these young people work in teams as tutors, mentors and role models to children in 9 primary schools across Gauteng.
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