Youth Worker (Rant Music Studio)

Portsmouth; Pennington; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth is seeking an enthusiastic youth musician facilitator to work with 11-19-year-olds in a local youth music project. You will encourage participation, plan activities, and listen to what the young people want, signposting as needed, and support the studio manager.

Duties include informal music activities, introduction to live room for drums, bass and guitar, helping young bands with performance and songwriting, and basic demo recording.

Qualifications

• Be able to engage young people in music-based activities.
• Experience in a youth work setting is preferred.
• Able to work evenings and some weekends.

Responsibilities

• Provide informal basic music activity alongside youth centre sessions.

Skills

Youth engagement

Music activity delivery

Listening skills

Team collaboration

Anti-discrimination

Flexible hours

Singing/vocal skills

Recording basics

Tools

Logic Pro

GarageBand

Job description

Working with young people aged between 11 -19 years, in a youth music project setting, you will encourage young people's participation in the project and in planning and running music activities with them. You will build relationships with these young people by being a good listener, listening to what the young people want from the activities as well as listening to their issues and sign posting them on to other services as and when required. You will be expected to support the work under the direction of the Rant Studio Manager.

Your duties will involve providing informal basic music activity alongside the youth centre sessions that could range from introducing young people to the live room where they can try out drums bass and guitar or assisting some of our young bands with performance and song writing advice. As we have the facilities to create basic demo recordings an understanding of the recording process would be helpful as also experience of Logic Pro / Garage Band would be an advantage. A broad interest in a wide range of music genres is also welcome.

Skills

• Be enthusiastic and be able to make and maintain effective relationships with young people.
• Have previous experience of engaging young people in a music-based youth work setting.
• Be friendly and approachable with a sense of humour and lots of patience.
• Be able to work within a team, as there will be lots of interaction with volunteers and other staffs as this is very much a hands-on job.
• Have an understanding of anti-discriminatory practice is essential, and the empowerment of young people is essential.
• Be open-minded but recognise and challenge inappropriateness in a young person's behaviour or language.
• Be flexible in your hours of work as you will need availability to work in the evenings (6-9pm Monday - Friday) and occasional weekends.
• Have experience in solo / group singing and vocal techniques.