Senior Young Dads Worker (Minoritised Groups) at North East Young Dads and Lads Project
Contract Type: Fixed term
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Full time
Application deadline:
Based: Gateshead
Salary: £29,430 Per Annum
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Senior Project Support
Job title: Senior Young Dads Worker (Minoritised Groups)
Closing date: Thursday 18th January at midnight. Application by email to: dannii@neydl.uk specifying the subject title as ‘Job Application – Senior Young Dads Worker – Minoritised Groups’)
· Do you believe that all young fathers should be valued and supported in their role as parents?
· Are you a collaborative, driven self-starter with significant experience of building and managing relationships within communities?
· Do you have a deep understanding of the issues that face people from minoritised groups?
We use the term ‘minoritised’ as an inclusive term that describes people from the African and Asian diaspora. We recognise that minoritisation is intersectional and that people also experience inequity as a result of their religion, sexuality, and disability in addition to their gender and race. We use the term young dads to refer to young dads, expectant dads and non-birthing partners aged 25 and under. This includes people within the defined age bracket who self-identify as father figures including kinship carers and non-birthing partners.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference as part of a close, inclusive, and supportive team that actively supports our staff to develop their skills and expertise. We are looking for a suitably qualified, motivated, and experienced man from a minoritised community. We also welcome applications from people who have lived experience of fatherhood.
About us:
Established in 2017, North East Young Dads & Lads (NEYDL) is an award-winning parenting support charity that works intensively with young men facing fatherhood. Our vision is for young dads to be valued and supported in their role as parents. Our mission is to enable young dads to play a safe, active and meaningful role in their children’s lives, by supporting and connecting young dads and influencing wider practice.
Whilst NEYDL has made a significant and sometimes life-changing impact in the lives of North East young dads and their families, reaching and supporting over 200 young fathers to date, there has been a marked absence of representation from minoritised groups. For this reason, we partnered with University of Lincoln, Connected Voice, and others, to carry out research into inclusive support for young fathers. One of the recommendations from this report was around being sensitive, culturally appropriate, and assertive with outreach.
NEYDL aspires to embed equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in all our decisions, policies and day to day practices and are in the process of developing our EDI strategy. We want to ensure that all young fathers, including those from minoritised groups are able to access our support and guidance to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. To help us to do this, we are seeking to recruit a suitably qualified, motivated, and experienced part time Senior Young Dads Worker to join our established team.
Working hours: Full time post (35 hours per week).
Contract: Fixed term until 19th April 2026, based on a salary of £16.17 per hour equivalent to £29,430.00 gross pay per annum (less tax, national insurance contributions and other deductions required by law or as we may authorise from time to time).
Holiday entitlement: 7.2 weeks’ holiday in the holiday year which runs from 1st January until 31st Decemberinclusive of statutory and public holidays.
Exemptions: Enhanced DBS clearance is required.
Application Process:
Please send your CV (no more than 4 pages including two references that can be contacted if successful) PLUS:
· a covering letter (no more than 2x sides of A4 Arial font size 12)
OR
· a maximum 4-minute video outlining why you want this job and your answers to the following questions:
Questions:
1. What excites you most about this Senior Young Dads role and how is it directly connected to your skills and experience? Please bear in mind the requirements of the Person Specification.
2. What relevant lived experience would you bring to this role?
3. What experience of engaging with minoritised communities would you bring to this role?
To discuss this role please email: dannii@neydl.uk
Purpose of the Job
As our Senior Young Dads Worker, you will play a key and active role in increasing our reach with young dads from minoritised groups. We use the term ‘minoritised’ as an inclusive term that describes people from the African and Asian diaspora. We recognise that minoritisation is intersectional and that people also experience inequity as a result of their religion, sexuality, and disability in addition to their gender and race. We use the term young dads to refer to young dads, expectant dads and non-birthing partners aged 25 and under. This includes people within the defined age bracket who self-identify as father figures including kinship carers and non-birthing partners.
You will help us to find young dads from minoritised communities and build excellent relationships to ensure that they receive high quality support including:
· In-person and online one-to-one support.
· Individual help to address key challenges and difficulties.
· Help to attend key meetings with other services and professionals.
· Support to ‘get out of the house’, meet new people and try new things.
· Father and child focused activities including ‘Stay and Play’ sessions.
· Peer supported social and recreational activities.
· Parenting, and relationship skills sessions.
· Employability skills.
· Volunteering opportunities.
· Supporting access to and involvement in the charity’s DigiDAD e-learning portal made by young dads for young dads.
You will provide culturally appropriate direct support to young dads through a combination of in-person and remote one-to-one sessions and if desired, co-facilitated peer support groups. In addition, you will engage with the relevant networks and services, at all levels, to ensure that high quality support is available.
What you will do.
You will be responsible for the following:
1. Outreach
a. Identify young dads, expectant dads, and non-birthing people from minoritised communities across the North East with an initial focus on Newcastle, Durham, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, and Sunderland, through a comprehensive outreach plan.
b. Build strong and supportive relationships with young dads, expectant dads, and non-birthing people from minoritised communities and the wider communities to help identify their needs and ensure that they are able to access the services that they need to fulfil their roles.
2. Support
a. Provide effective and high-quality support to young dads on a one-to-one basis, both virtually and in-person.
b. Establish, coordinate and co-facilitate in-person peer support groups and peer moderated video gaming groups, if desired.
c. Support young dads to register, access and complete DigiDAD e-learning content.
d. Support the delivery of training and educational activities that respond to the identified needs of young dads, expectant dads, non-birthing people from minoritised communities and their families.
3. Research, monitoring, and evaluation
a. Effectively record, monitor, and report programme performance via our data management system and corresponding evaluation framework.
b. Ensure all relevant data on the programme is recorded and stored accurately, on time and in line with the charity’s Data Protection Policy.
c. Comply with any monitoring, evaluation, and reporting requirements as part of the charity’s internal processes, as well as any grant funding or commissioning requirements for the services being delivered.
d. Support the work of the charity’s research partners and independent evaluators as required.
4. Collaboration
· Work in partnership with key stakeholders to improve the service offer for young dads.
5. Advocacy
a. Represent the charity at external events and meetings to raise awareness of the service and influence other organisations.
b. Develop and build effective networks and working relationships with principal stakeholders and supporters.
Promote, campaign and advocate with and on behalf of young men from minoritised groups, ensuring that NEYDL continues to be a leading voice for positive change.
6. Personal development
a. Attend fortnightly team meetings and internal and external supervision.
b. Take responsibility for your own professional development, including identification of training needs.
7. Recruitment
a. Support the recruitment and advancement of young dads seeking to progress into meaningful volunteering roles including DigiDAD content creators and regional young dads council members (AmbassaDADS).
b. Strive to ensure that young dads who access our programmes and services are reflective of the diverse communities in which we work.
8. Engagement
a. Support the charity’s communications and engagement strategy, such as writing copy and sourcing images for annual reports, social media campaigns and local news media.
9. Other
· To deputise for the Regional Programmes Manager and CEO as required.
· To report to the Board of Trustees in person and/or in writing on a quarterly basis as required.
10. Standard Clauses
a. The post holder must always champion the values of NEYDL and support the successful delivery of our vision, mission, and strategic objectives.
b. The post holder must always carry out their responsibilities with due regard to the charity’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement and Safeguarding Policy.
c. The post holder must accept responsibility for ensuring that the policies and procedures relating to Health and Safety in the workplace are always adhered to.
d. This role will require satisfactory enhanced level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance.
e. The post holder must respect the confidentiality of data stored electronically and by other means in line with the charity’s Data Protection Policy.
Note - this job description is not exhaustive. The charity reserves the right to reasonably add to or revise it at any time in agreement with the post holder.
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