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/

Reporting to our Head of Youth Investment Fund (HYIF) this role plays an important part in supporting and coordinating Governance and Business Support activities across various internal and external partner teams, Boards and Committees.

Key responsibilities

1.       To actively engage with the internal Relationship Management team and external partner teams to ensure papers are produced to pre-determined quality standards and deadlines.

 2.       Produce papers for meetings including but not limited to monthly Assessment Panels, Quarterly Grant Committees and Programme Boards.

 3.       To administrate and coordinate all YIF meetings including:

• timetabling and meeting planning ensuring diary availability and quorate attendance by panel and committee members

• ensuring all reports from all internal and external partners are received within the pre-determined deadlines to the required quality standards

• publishing meeting packs on Board Intelligence software

• attending meetings and taking accurate minutes ensuring discussions, decisions made, ownerships and deadlines for completion are properly documented.

• preparing follow up action tables from meetings with ownerships and deadlines

• ensuring follow up action is completed by relevant team members

4.       To work with HYIF and Governance Team to feed into the main Joint Board and ensure all minutes, resolutions and approvals are saved on Board Intelligence.

5.       Coordinate key reports and dashboards from relevant teams for all YIF meetings to ensure these are received and circulated on time.

6.       To support the HYIF by actively seeking and collating information and updates from all teams and people across the organisation working on YIF and produce reports where necessary.

7.       Work within the organisation's processes and procedures required to contribute to the effectiveness of overall Governance within SIB.

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

9.       To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.

10.    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.

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

12.    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.

• Excellent IT skills including MS Office Suite, confident working with bespoke software (SalesForce).

• Demonstrable evidence of supporting teams and cross-team working.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

• Well organised with attention to detail.

• Ability to prioritise, multi task and work flexibly.

• Understanding of Governance and administration for Board and Committees.

• Ability to deal sensitively and diplomatically with people from all levels.

 Desirable competencies

• Good knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, local and central government and the statutory sector as a whole.