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Date(s)

weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, starting from Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 8:30am, forever
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Availability Details

Every few weeks volunteers are contacted to submit their availability over a 4-week period of sessions via a Google form. Each volunteering day is split into 3 or 4 different time slots, as we appreciate taking a full day out of your working week can be difficult.

Venue Address

MyBigCareer, 7 Bell Yard
London
WC21 2JR
United Kingdom

Areas covered
Online
Key words
Help and Support
Education / Training / Employment
Students
Young People
Policies in place

DBS check required

Yes
Support and Training

Expenses Reimbursed

No
Other information

Age restrictions apply

Yes

Details

You must be at least 18 years of age to become a volunteer career coach. All volunteers are required to get an Enhanced DBS check, which the charity will take you through once onboarded. As this role is online and doesn't require any travel for the volunteer, there will be no expenses to reimburse. If, in the future, you are ever required to travel to fulfil your volunteering, then you will be reimbursed.

We are recruiting motivated and enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about tackling inequality, to deliver 1:1 Coaching Sessions ONLINE to students. MyBigCareer supports young people facing the greatest barriers to future work, helping them be informed, equipped and ready to secure meaningful employment and realise their potential. The charity will provide significant training and resources to support volunteers, but the essential requirements for the role are the ability to listen, show compassion and find a solution focussed approach. Each session with a student will be 20 minutes long and each available time slot varies. Please note that you will be supporting students in Years 8-10 and all sessions are held during the working day. This is not a long-term ‘mentoring’ programme but MyBigCareer will continue to work with the young people in various programmes. As a volunteer it is likely that you will only meet the young person on one occasion, but they’ll be supported by other volunteers in career coaching. This programme supports students at a number of key milestones during their secondary school journey to empower them to make positive decisions affecting their education and future aspirations. To register for this opportunity, please complete this form.

Skills needed

We ask all our volunteers to demonstrate passion, positivity and commitment to improving social mobility for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

We know how precious your time is and want to make the most of every hour you give us. We’ll help you to have the best possible impact for young people and get a great volunteering experience too.

You don’t need to be career guidance guru, qualified life coach or employment expert to make a life-changing difference. Instead, we value your life experience, your energy and insights and the connections you can make: the tools you’ll need to help connect, inspire and make change for young people starting out on their journey.

Benefits for the Volunteer

As a MyBigCareer volunteer you’ll be:
- Supported, encouraged and trained by the charity’s energetic team
- Sharing your skills, insights and expertise to help young people who are less advantaged
- Getting the opportunity to make new connections with like-minded volunteers
- Growing professionally and personally as a role model and inspirational individual
- Supporting your own wellbeing by putting your spare time and ability to brilliant use

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Your details will be passed onto the organisation offering this volunteer opportunity so that they can contact you directly with more information. Anonymised information will be kept for monitoring purposes.