Heritage Participation and Engagement Worker

The Kingsley Hall Heritage Project is an ambitious, participatory project to transform Kingsley Hall, the charity’s Grade II* listed home in Bristol, into a safe and welcoming centre where the region’s most disadvantaged young people can rebuild their lives. 1625 is now recruiting to build the Heritage Activity Team, an inclusive, skilled team that will engage young people in cocreation of the project, maximise opportunities for them to build experience and skills, and deliver a high-quality, innovative five-year activity plan.

The Kingsley Hall project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to develop and now deliver our plans to transform Kingsley Hall - our charity’s base and Grade 2* listed building - into a welcoming space that will provide training, support and housing for young people who have been homeless, at risk of homelessness or are leaving care. 

The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 12 February 2025.

As part of this exciting heritage project, we are recruiting a project team member to:

• Deliver an exciting engaging heritage activities programme co-produced and co-delivered with young people
• Support a pool of young volunteers in co-production roles – overseeing their progression and development
• Lead a series of creative projects bringing together young people, freelancers and partner agencies working in the education and youth sectors

You will join a small team of three with the opportunity to lead on various aspects of the project and support a trainee on placement.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritized ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience. 

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible. 

Who are we?

We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.

What you will be doing:

Outreach internally and with partner agencies to recruit young people into the heritage project

Support young people to take on co-production roles alongside staff – heritage youth board, peer educators, co trainers.

Work with young people, partners and creative professionals on a series of heritage themed projects e.g. documentary film, oral histories, food heritage.

Record and evaluate activities to identify impacts.

You will be in our Participation and Learning Team and your line manager will be our Senior Heritage Activity Co-ordinator.

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job.

No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role.

Contract details:

Hours per week: 37.5

Contract type: Permanent

Pay: £29,572 - £31,067 per annum starting at the bottom of the scale

The location: Kingsley Hall, Bristol (alternative venue when building is closed)

In return for your dedication, we offer:

A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF

A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing 
“I feel grateful to work here every day! The work feels useful and worthwhile, and I feel like I am able to make a difference for our young people” (From Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2023).

“I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, here.

1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.

Important dates

Application deadline closes: 23:59, Wednesday 12 February 2025.

If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Wednesday 19 February 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Interviews are on Wednesday 26 February 2025.