About the Youth Investment Fund

The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is a £368 million fund created by the UK government to create, expand and improve youth facilities and services in England to drive positive outcomes for young people.

YIF is being delivered by a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Key Fund, National Youth Agency and Resonance.

Together, we aim to deliver grants for up to 300 facilities in selected eligible areas across England by 2025 that represent positive value for money, are environmentally sustainable and enable positive activities for young people aged 11–18 (up to 25 for young people with SEND).

This funding will drive value-for-money facilities that youth organisations can afford to sustain. Using innovative construction techniques, as well as supporting redevelopment projects that expand youth service provision, the YIF will achieve savings on facility running costs, so that resources can focus on activities that enrich young people’s lives.

It will support projects to level up youth provision, assessing and distributing grants so that local youth facilities and services can be the best they can be.

 www.youthinvestmentfund.org.uk

About this role:

This role will be employed by Social Investment Business (SIB) on a fixed term contract until March 2025.

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided finance and support to charities and social enterprises. We empower these organisations to do what they do best - serve the communities they operate within. 

Find out more about what we do: https://www.sibgroup.org.uk/

 Our values are: People First, Curious, Bold, Collaborative, Accountable

For further information on our values and our generous benefits please visit https://www.sibgroup.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us/

This role will support the Director of People and Values (P&V) on the implementation, planning and creation of learning and development across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

1.      Support the Director of P&V to embed the strategic training plan.

 2.      Co-ordination and management of learning where relevant, across the organisation and audit of new and existing L&D interventions.

 3.      To support the organisation to provide upskilling or retraining where required on new projects or funds.

 4.      Research, develop, and plan cost effective learning programmes, development initiatives and frameworks.

 5.      Working with stakeholders across the organisation, as well as the leadership team, to identify development needs and ensure the delivery of strategically aligned L&D solutions.

 6.      Source and manage third-party training providers.

 7.      Ensuring the application and effectiveness of learning, with a key focus on the transfer of learning to the workplace to support operational excellence.

 8.      Working with the Learning and Influence team on evaluating and evidencing the impact of learning.

 9.      Working with the Learning and Influence team on collating and evaluating employee engagement regularly.

 10.  Promote a culture of continuous learning.

 11.  To support the Director of P&V on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, including networks, information, action plans and training.

 12.  To support the Director of P&V with the management of the L&D Budget

 13.  To work within the organisation's values, principles and processes to achieve operational excellence.

 14.  To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.

 15.  To support and embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day behaviours and activities within your role as well as contributing more widely across SIB’s commitment to E, D & I.

 16.  To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.

 17.  In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks and work on cross team projects that support the objectives of SIB as required.

Core competencies

• Commitment to quality, equality, diversity, inclusion and customers.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Team player with the ability to work independently.

• Experience of providing organisation wide training delivery.

• Experience of planning, co-ordinating and researching the most appropriate learning.

• Experience of understanding organisation delivery and creating L&D to support that.

• Delivering learning interventions in a blended & agile manner.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Able to manage information and people sensitively and confidentially.

• Able to build strong working relationships across the organisation and with partners.

Desirable competencies

• Social sector experience.

• Qualification CIPD or other relevant L&D