Register Your Interest - Youth Mentor - Leadership Development Programme (2024/2025

City Year UK is seeking volunteer mentors for its Leadership Development Programme (2024/2025) in London. Volunteers will support pupils in low-income schools, providing academic and emotional guidance. The role includes leading clubs and fostering a positive learning environment. Participants will gain leadership skills, receive training, and have the opportunity for professional development. This is a full-time, in-person commitment from August 2023 to July 2024.
Youth Mentor - Leadership Development Programme

Realise your potential by helping pupils fulfil theirs

Join our year-long leadership development programme and contribute to tackling educational inequality, making a real difference to children’s lives, from August 2023 - July 2024.
The role

Was there someone who made a difference in your ability to access education? Or perhaps you were a pupil who would have benefited from having a mentor? This is your chance to harness your energy, passion and creativity, in order to become that person for others.

As a volunteer mentor, you’ll spend your City Year supporting children in schools who need our help the most - by acting as a student success coach to them and integrating social, emotional and academic learning to realise pupils' potential.

Alongside your teammates, you’ll help pupils engage with and enjoy learning through classroom, one-to-one and small group support. You’ll also be delivering and running breakfast, lunch and after school clubs, and create meaningful relationships with children who need help to do well at school.

Not only will you spend the year changing lives in schools, you’ll also get to take part in City Year UK’s Leadership Development Programme. You’ll have the opportunity to do a relevant accredited qualification as part of the programme. Plus, we’ll create specially tailored Professional Development Programmes to measure your progress and help you develop the key skills and competencies that employers are looking for.

Until July 2024, you will be a volunteer mentor based in a school in a low-income area, whilst improving your own career prospects through work experience and personal and professional development workshops. Please note this is a full-time opportunity and therefore you must be available during school hours in term time from August 2023-July 2024 to apply.
As a City Year UK volunteer mentor you will:
• Be integral to the school day and work as part of a team
• Act as a role model, mentor and coach to help struggling pupils succeed, providing 1:1 and small group support in class
• Lead clubs, projects and events to promote a positive school culture
• Support pupils’ academic and emotional wellbeing, creating a welcoming learning environment.
What you can gain from your City Year:

City Year is a life-changing experience. As well as having a huge impact on the lives of pupils, it's a year that will accelerate your career and give you the confidence to lead from the front. 93% of our volunteer mentors go on to full-time employment or education after completing our leadership development programme.
Key benefits:
• Bespoke Friday training sessions to develop leadership and employability skills
• A designated professional mentor from our corporate partners
• Access to accredited leadership courses
• £115-£125 living expenses per week, dependent on region, plus all travel expenses reimbursed
• Free uniform - one of our iconic red jackets

Life after City Year: give a year, stay part of a unique community

Our volunteer mentors come from a wide range of backgrounds but are united in one common goal: to better themselves and to better the lives of pupils facing barriers to success.

Since 2009, City Year UK has trained and supported over 1,500 young adults to coach and mentor over 15,000 pupils in need of extra help and contributed to a positive school culture for over 100,000 children. Our volunteers have then gone on to progress into careers within education, social work, law enforcement, finance, engineering, marketing and many others, as well as launching their own businesses.