Salary	28,000 per annum + N.I. £5,560.68 +3% per annum
Hours	35 hours per week

Duties

• Spend time on the shop desk.
• To up-date management committee on all aspects of the liaison officers work through monthly reports.
• To meet with the management committee monthly and organize the meeting, time and place.
• To supervise all the workers, ensuring that they each look after their designated volunteer.
• To ensure workers receive counselling if needs be.
• To meet with any new local group office managers at quarterly meetings and submit reports on development.
• To help organize the national conference and to ensure all accounts and work reports are submitted to the national annual general meeting.
• To speak at specific internal meetings and conferences, regarding the organisation's development.
• To at times publically represent the organisation to the press or government officials.
• To ensure the youth parliament website and developments are running smoothly.
• To help promote membership of young people to the organisation by the development of a website.
• To promote sales of videos, publications, training and commercial sales.

Skills

Website skills, management skills, report writing skills, public speaking and representation skills, and accounts skills.

Person's Specifications

Experience

(1) Having been in care
(2) Communicating with young people at all levels
(3) Management experience personal or professional

Knowledge

(1) Good Knowledge of the issues faced by young people in care.
(2) Some awareness of the relationship between the media and Issues relating to young people in care.
(3) Knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004.
(4) Knowledge of the Criminal Justice Act 1992.

Skills

(1) To be able to represent the organisation at internal and external meetings
(2) To be able to manage the maintenance of our web site.
(3) To be able to arrange counselling back up for workers
(4) To be able to manage all aspects of your staffs work.
(5) To be able to give regular supervision to your workers and volunteers.
(6) To be able to keep management informed of all activities
(7) To be able to have good written and verbal skills
(8) To be able to update all policy or procedure documents regularly

Circumstances

(1) Must be able to give commitment of carrying out the work of the organization alongside our members
(2) Must be willing to learn new skills
(3) Must act professionally at all times when dealing with the organizations business.