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Join Our Team! Now Hiring a Programme & Marketing Coordinator

Job Title: Programme and Marketing Coordinator
Location: Hybrid with 2 days per week based in YSI Head Office (Old Finglas Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11).
Start Date: Immediate
Salary: €34,445
Line Manager: Marketing & Communications Manager
Duration: Permanent (subject to funding) 
Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week)

About Young Social Innovators.

Young Social Innovators (YSI) is a non-profit organisation that believes in the power of youth. Its vision is to empower, equip and inspire young people to change the world for good. Through its programmes, training and events, Young Social Innovators enables young people to grapple with difficult social issues, advocating reform and advancing change. Each year, circa 15,000 young people are supported to explore social and environmental issues that concern them and come up with a variety of responses to these. In this way, Young Social Innovators builds social capital and helps young people create a fairer and more caring society connecting into a wider global movement for change.

Ignite Community Programme

Ignite Community (IC) is a four-year social innovation programme supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). The purpose of this innovative programme is to enable young people outside the main education system to drive and own innovations that will make a real difference in tackling inequality and creating new connections across communities in Northern Ireland (NI) and the Border Counties of Ireland (BRI). These new connections will deepen links through the development of cross-border and cross-community relations within groups of young people from diverse backgrounds and communities co-creating solutions to social and environmental issues that impact upon them and their communities. We will use social innovation as the linchpin to empower communities of young people to co-design and launch new and innovative solutions.

Purpose of Role

The Programme & Marketing Coordinator will be at the heart of promoting our purpose and brand running all marketing activities to engage, attract, and advocate for social innovation and entrepreneurial education. They will also provide effective Ignite Community Programme administration for the wider programme team delivering across Ireland. YSI is looking for a creative marketer and content writer who is passionate about social innovation, learning and the opportunity to empower the future of our nation--youth and education.  You will have a breath of creative marketing and communications experience using digital to enhance your reach, message, and engagement. You will be able to demonstrate strong interpersonal, teamwork and management abilities. You will be a self-starter and happy to be both a thinker and a doer! This person contributes and adds value to projects across a range of functions including marketing, social media, events, PR, and partnership development helping to increase engagement, share our impact and provide quality stakeholder experiences.

Duties of the Role

Brand Awareness, Marketing and Digital Engagement

Digital Youth Engagement Campaigns

Event Delivery and Promotion

PR and Public Affairs

Ignite Community: Programme Support

Other

The Person

Person Specification (Essential):

Travel throughout March each year will be required to support the work. 

To apply, please send a CV and a supporting document describing how you meet the essential criteria for this role in no more than two pages to careers@youngsocialinnovators.ie 

The closing date for applications is the 13th of November 2024. Late applications will not be accepted.

First Interview: Monday the 25th of November (Online)  

Please note that successful candidates will be required to provide proof of identity and complete our Garda vetting process.

Young Social Innovators is committed to equal opportunities and all recruitment decisions will be based on merit, suitability for the role and experience. All recruitment decisions will not be influenced by race, colour, nationality, religion, sex, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, age, or membership of the Traveller Community. Young Social Innovators fully endorses a working environment free from discrimination and harassment.