Pathways Coordinator

You will be an integral part of the school and college community across Forth Valley as well as the wider MCR team. You will be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people across Forth Valley College supporting young people to sustain their destination., Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with the current schools team, young people and mentors to support transitions to Forth Valley College
- Facilitate the MCR Programme across Forth Valley College to offer enhanced support to young people to sustain post school destinations
- Play a key role in supporting young people and mentors across Forth Valley schools and within the local community
- Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme
- Actively support young people to participate, receive mentoring support and sustain future pathways
- Work in partnership with the MCR Team, Skills Development Scotland, Widening Access Colleagues, schools and other key partners
- Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies

Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people, education colleagues, volunteer mentors, key partners and local employers
- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Ability and confidence to present programme information and deliver prepared training sessions to groups
- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need
- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people and young adults may encounter
- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.

You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.

MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression.

We are thrilled to be launching our programme for the first time in a further education setting to continue to support mentored young people post school and are really looking forward to working in partnership with Forth Valley College. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.