Summer recruitment: support young refugees with their education for the 25-26' academic year
Refugee Education UK
Support young refugees in your community meet their educational goals as a volunteer mentor.
Each Volunteer Educational Mentor provides individual educational support to one young person for one hour a week, for a minimum of six months. These sessions take place either in a public library local to the young person, or in the young person’s college library. Educational goals are set at the beginning of the mentoring relationship, and reviewed after six months. Mentors mostly work on the aspects of homework or classwork which young people find most challenging; at times, they also provide additional teaching and prepare resources. Mentors work closely with the REUK Educational Mentoring
Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring
Basic IT skills - internet & email, Organising & Planning
You do not need direct teaching experience or specific mentoring experiences to succeed in this role, just an enthusiasm to learn and support newly arrived young people in your community. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. 1. Experience of working with young people and the related challenges (ie: flexibility and patience sometimes required for youth work). 2. Capacity to travel to a location convenient for the young person and an ability to meet the young person by 5:30 pm at the latest. 3. Experience of working with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures 4. Ability to work on own initiative and a willingness to take on relevant preparation 5. Ability to think creatively and problem-solve 6. Excellent communication/interpersonal skills 7. Good organisational skills 8. Ability to cope with emotionally-demanding and stressful situations 9. Motivated by promoting the wellbeing of children and young people
While the minimum commitment is six months (26 weeks), the progress you make with your mentoring pair can be really substantial, even in this short period. At the end of this initial volunteering period, many volunteers choose to continue because of: - the close relationship they build with their mentee as a supportive, impartial adult in their lives - the tailored training opportunities mentors get access to (see below) - the different REUK community events with exclusive mentor socials and wider mentor-mentee socials to celebrate your work - the impact you will make as a volunteer, in the lives of the young people you support Onboarding training Once you are past the interview, we invite all new mentors to a training session that goes through different themes of our work. From an introduction to the forced migrant community and working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to learning about the mentoring session facilitation, we make sure that you are ready to start as educational mentors. Ongoing training and upskilling Once matched, you will be invited to our quarterly mentor development trainings, providing you with knowledge and resources to pertinent issues that may affect your mentoring pairs such as addressing wellbeing challenges and study skills. These opportunities are also chances to meet other more experienced mentors and connect with the wider REUK community.
The volunteering will be 1-2 hours a week, on a weekly basis for a minimum commitment of six months. If this is not possible, please do flag this in your application and we can discuss this in your volunteering onboarding. Meeting times can be flexible and just depend on when your mentee / you are free to meet during the weekdays.
N/A
While our office is based in Northwest London, our mentoring programme operates across communities in North, South, East and West London. Please get in touch in your inquiry to double-check whether your home location is covered.
N/A
20
