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Stoke-on-Trent Hub Assistant

Fixed Contract

  • Babylon Migrants Project is looking for an enthusiastic and responsible Assistant for our creative workshops in Stoke-on-Trent

  • Dates: 13th, 27th, January / 10th & 24th February / 10th & 24th March  (Weekly Workshops on Mondays at 4.30-8pm)

  • Total fee: £270 (£45 x 6 Workshops)

About Us

Babylon Project runs creative activities by and for young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds. We provide a safe and welcoming environment in which young people can take part in creative activities such as drama, storytelling, film-making and art. The activities aim to address the disadvantage and exclusion experienced by refugees and asylum seekers living in the UK, boosting young people’s confidence and providing them with the necessary tools to express themselves.

We run creative workshops and activities twice a month for refugees and asylum seekers aged 16-30, supporting them to hone their existing creative skills and gain new ones, integrate into life in the UK, learn English, boost their confidence, and make new friends. Through our workshops, participants gain and develop their skills in a range of artistic forms, while exploring themes of identity, community and wellbeing.

Our workshops last 2-3 hours and are usually attended by 15-20 participants. They are led by Facilitators who are experts in their respective creative fields, and who often come from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Each session concludes with a hot meal, which allows our community to bond and thrive.

The Role

Babylon Migrants Project is seeking an enthusiastic, friendly and responsible Hub Assistant for our creative workshops in Stoke-on-Trent. The role will be for 2 Monday evenings per month, from January-March 2025.

The role of the Hub Assistant is to support participants to take part in creative activities at our workshops.

Main Areas of Focus

CREATIVE

  • Understand and support the aims and objectives of the Creative workshops

  • Ensure that individual voices are heard

  • Support participants to take part like help with translation.

  • Ensure that all workshops are carried out in a safe and inclusive environment

OPERATIONAL

  • Signing participants in & recording participants names for travel expenses.

  • Support Hub Coordinator with setting the space up, distributing the food and snacks, welcoming, registering the group and clearing up.

  • As a staff member of Babylon,  you are expected to be an ambassador for the hub and represent the organisation positively at all times as laid out in the organisations Code of Conduct.

  • In the absence of the Coordinator, take the lead in supporting the freelancers, and distributing travel expenses.

GENERAL

  • To attend training courses and development opportunities as required

  • Work within Babylon’s established policies and practices, including Health & Safety & Safeguarding

  • The Health and Safety at Work Act and other associated legislation places responsibility for Health and Safety on all employees. Therefore, it is the post holder’s responsibility to take reasonable care for the Health, Safety and Welfare of him/herself and other employees in accordance with legislation and the Company’s Health and Safety Policy.

  • The above duties may involve having access to information of a confidential nature, which may be covered by the General Data Protection Regulation. Confidentiality must be maintained at all times.


Essential Criteria

  • An interest in creative activities

  • A passion for supporting the development of young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds aged 16-30.

  • This post is subject to the post holder having a valid Enhanced DBS Certificate or providing information to Babylon to make an application.

  • The post-holder must have the right to work in the UK

  • The post-holder must be over the age of 18

Desirable Criteria

  • Lived experience of migration

  • Fluency in another language (particularly Arabic)

Benefits


  • Opportunity to gain work experience with young people in the creative and charity sectors

  • Opportunity to work with inspiring artists and facilitators

  • Opportunity to connect with people from many different cultures and backgrounds

  • Being part of a supportive and growing team

  • Knowing that your work is having a meaningful and positive impact on young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds who are living in Stoke-on-Trent

How to Apply: 

Email: stokecoordinator@babylonproject.co.uk with your CV and a covering letter. Please also supply contact details of two referees.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 3rd January. Interviews w/c 6th January.

For more information about the role, feel free to email stokecoordinator@babylonproject.co.uk with any questions.

We are proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (www.ebeemployment.org.uk), which aims to create a charitable sector that is led by people with lived experience of the asylum and immigration system. As part of this network, we challenge the one-size-fits-all approach in our employment practices, and respect personal circumstances and needs of people with lived experience. Please feel free to use information and resources at https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe which may help in preparing your job application.

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