Comics Youth Vacancy

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Salary: £18k pro rata
Hours: 15 hours per week

Comics Youth is a Social Enterprise that delivers comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for disadvantaged children and young people within Merseyside. The overall ethos of the organisation is to break down participation barriers and make projects accessible for children and young people aged 8-18 through delivering comic book creation and guided reading sessions in safe, inclusive and indiscriminate community venues.

Comics Corner! is a newly created BBC Children in Need funded project that will engage disadvantaged young people within Knowsley to design and publish original comic books and zines about salient community issues and topics of interest that are important to them.

Main duties:

• Support the delivery of a Comic Book, Zine creation and literacy project by co-developing and delivering sessions in conjunction with children and young people
• With support of the Project Manager to engage, recruit, and support the most hard to reach young people through multimedia, comic book creation, zine and involvement in digital and print media hubs
• Support young people to attain AQA qualifications
• Administer and track the progress of children and young people’s individual AQA progress and attainment
• Facilitate the participation of young people in the planning, development, design and implementation of all projects available to them
• Design comics and zines to support young people
• Take part in commission based opportunities to increase the sustainability of the organisation

For a copy of the job description and details on how to apply, contact Rhiannon Griffiths at rhiannon@comicsyouth.co.uk or call 0752 536 9624 and leave a message.

Closing date: Monday 8 January 2018, 5pm