Youth Mentor

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Introduction:
About Bamara

We bring years of experience and authentic engagement in regional, remote, and urban locations to our services.

Bamara has long history of working respectfully alongside communities and the people who live in them assisting and supporting community and individual goal achievement.

Bamara footprint extends across New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. Our focus is on building individual and community capacity and prosperity through the design and delivery of projects, programs and initiatives underpinned by Australian government (state and federal) funding.

Culture and Community

Bamara is a First Nation’s organisation, all staff are expected to participate in connection with community, respect relationships and apply this respect to each participant we work with across all diverse cultural backgrounds

Salary and Benefits

• 3 days bonus leave during the Christmas/New Year period
• Birthday leave
• Yearly Flu shot
• Retail and Entertainment discounts across leading brands through Flare Benefits program
• Opportunities to upskill with qualifications in Community Services
• Employee Assistance program for staff and their immediate families
• Access to our wellness partner program with C-5
• First Nations Perspective training
• Rewards and recognition program

Description:
About the role

To be a successful Bamara Youth Mentor, you must be able to balance empathy in your daily work with a drive to ensure we achieve business outcomes. You will have solid customer service and administrative skills and have ability to build successful relationships. You thrive working collaboratively in a diverse team environment. Previous experience in providing exceptional customer service and administration with sound computer literacy skills would be an advantage

Key Performance Areas

• Engage young people to enable career planning, training and development to ready them for employment.
• Build soft skills through facilitating a range of activities to increase engagement in the program
• Actively source employment opportunities.
• Match young people with employment opportunities in order to achieve Program outcomes and KPIs
• Deliver job-search preparation and training sessions.
• Educate young people on employer expectations and preparing them for interviews.
• Provide post placement support to assist young people in remaining in employment long term.

Skills and Experiences:
Key selection criteria

The successful applicant will be required to demonstrate the following skills and qualifications:

• Ability to analyse job requirements and effectively support young people into education or employment in a variety of conditions
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to negotiate, liaise and consult with a wide range of stakeholders including clients, government and non-government organisations, and facilitate working groups
• Demonstrated understanding of local labor market and regional skills shortages
• Current valid driving license, satisfactory Police check and WWCC Ochre Card
• Be able to get a MYID account
• Experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, organisations, and communities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong administration skills
• Ability to build rapport quickly and effectively
• Time management and organisational skills
• Advocacy and referral skills
• IT skills including working experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Case Management experience (desirable)