Comics Youth CIC – Global Majority Projects Officer (Comics & Mental Health)

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Contract: Temporary.
Term: Full-time.
Salary: 22.5k per annum.
Hours per week: 35 hours.
Reporting to: Management Team.
Location: Hybrid working (Office based at Make Hamilton and Satellite delivery).

Employer Bio

Comics Youth CIC is an innovative non-profit that delivers comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for disadvantaged children and young people aged 8-25 within the Liverpool City Region. The overall ethos of the organisation is to break down participation barriers for marginalised groups including looked after children, LGBTQIA young people, global majority youth, care leavers, young carers and young people experiencing complex mental ill health within the Liverpool City Region to make, create and publish comic books about salient community issues. Sessions are delivered within safe, inclusive, and indiscriminate community venues.

Job Description

The ‘Global Majority Projects Officer’ (Comics and Mental Health), is a position that is integral to the development of Comics Youth CIC’s core mission and objectives. The successful candidate will work across x2 Comics Youth CIC projects, Graphic Medicine, and Turn the Page.

Within Graphic Medicine, they will provide comics focused sessions for chronically and/or terminally ill young people aged 8-18 via the delivery of ward-based or online graphic narrative sessions. Within Turn the Page, they will provide comics focused social prescription activities for young people aged 16-25 who experience anxiety/and or depression. This will include 1-2-1 or group work.

The post holder will develop resources and session plans for young people and deliver a mix of 1-2-1 and group work via Microsoft teams or face-to-face. They will also complete illustrations of young people’s narrative stories in comic art form. 60% of the role will entail direct youth work; 20% will entail illustration work and 20% admin and development work (EG-recruitment).

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

You will need to complete an Equalities Monitoring Form as a part of your application process.

Deadline: 12 PM on 14 July 2023.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter, outlining your suitability for the post to hi@comicsyouth.co.uk. Applications that don’t include a covering letter, as specified, will be automatically rejected. If you are shortlisted, interviews will take place digitally on Thursday 27 July 2023. Please inform them, when you apply, if you cannot attend on this date.