Do you enjoy working with people? Do you have excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience working with young people? Due to new funding from the Statutory Levy on the gambling industry via Scottish Government, Fast Forward is adding members to their existing Scottish Gambling Education Hub and are looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join the staff team.
Fast Forward is looking for an enthusiastic practitioner with excellent communication skills and robust track record of working in the community with young people, practitioners and families.
The Hub was Scotland’s first gambling education and prevention programme focusing on protecting young people from gambling harms. Its work includes delivering training to practitioners, staff, schools and youth groups, developing resources, as well as partnership building with national organisations.
The Project Officer will deliver early education and prevention sessions on gambling, gaming and related harms to children and young people in formal and informal education settings. In addition to training of, and engagement with, practitioners, services and organisations working across Scotland.
The main focus of the Hub is to develop and deliver training sessions and resources, the Project Officer will also lead direct group work within communities.
The successful candidate will also play an active role contributing to the ongoing development of the Hub’s training portfolio and resources.
The post involves working both independently and as part of a team. You will need excellent communication and presentation skills, be able to build partnerships with other agencies, manage training programmes, deliver successful outcomes and prioritise a demanding workload.
All Fast Forward staff are expected to work collaboratively with other team members and volunteers and undertake cross-team delivery of training/up-skilling to external agencies or at external events. Occasional evening and weekend work will be required.