Working for Basecamp is an experience like no other. I love being involved in every stage of a young person’s journey through Basecamp and being able to know each young person as an individual. There are very few jobs which give you the opportunity to work so relationally and create such deep and meaningful connections, not only with young people but with the incredible Basecamp team. Basecamp is a feeling and it is a truly magical one. I feel so lucky to be part of it.
Anna, Programme Manager
Programme manager and Events coordinator
We are seeking a creative and driven Programme Manager and Events Coordinator who is ready to take on a unique, hybrid role offering the rare opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable young people and the development of a start up charity. You’ll be a big part of a small organisation, supporting us on the ground to expand our work with young people as well as grow our fundraising resource. The role sits right in the middle of almost everything we do and will be critical to our future development. We are driven by finding someone with the right core skills and fundamental belief in the work we do.
This role demands a unique combination of skills. You’ll be a capable Programme Manager (or at the very least an aspiring one with a strong desire to step up from your current youth experience), with an understanding of the role outdoor adventure can have in supporting health and wellbeing and underpinning personal development.
In addition to this, we’ve got big ambitions to develop an events strand to our work, which brings together three separate but interlinked fundraising ideas. You will support us to create, shape and implement this new initiative alongside our team, helping us to turn our initial idea into a reality. We are proud to be very much a people-led organisation, so it’s possible that your own strengths and experience may sway the specifics of the role.
Reports to: Senior Management Team
Hours: Full time, 5 days (37.5 hours) a week, flexible working evenings and weekends as required
Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 dependant on experience
Location: The Old Fire Station, Leeds (Basecamp HQ), but the role also incorporates travel across Yorkshire and the Lake District
Transport: The role will require access to a car
Start Date: We will accommodate the start date depending on the individual’s situation, but we are looking to get someone in for Spring
Annual Leave: 22 days + bank holidays + 1x day off per Adventure Residential) to account for extra hours worked)
What is Basecamp?
At Basecamp Adventure Trust, we empower vulnerable young people from West Yorkshire to thrive through unique, long-term programmes which harness outdoor adventure as a powerful vehicle for personal transformation. Through a combination of skills workshops, exhilarating adventure trips and a deeply relational approach, we challenge, celebrate and inspire young people to discover a newfound sense of confidence, resilience and self-belief, and to explore new possibilities for themselves. Our programmes are intensive, sustained and individualised to make a lasting positive difference on the young people we work with so they can lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.
The Role
Programme Manager (~35% of the role) – We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable Programme Manager who can lead the delivery of our Core Programme, having the ability to directly work with young people, lead a team, have an acute eye for detail and organisation and a creative, dynamic approach to problem-solving. The Programme Manager role takes up around 80 days a year, with the days being weighted unevenly across the months of the year.
Events Coordinator (~65% of the role) – We are looking for a driven and creative Events Coordinator who will help us create a Basecamp calendar of external events, which will support our fundraising goals and bring a large and diverse audience to our work. The right candidate will be excited at the prospect of turning ideas into a reality, supporting us with the creative development of this idea as well as the practical implementation.
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Acting as the key point of contact to organise, deliver and oversee the Basecamp Core Programme to 1 cohort of young people, including managing residential trips, school workshops and other supporting sessions throughout the year’s programme (e.g. Taster Days, Graduation etc) (September - June).
This includes:
Onboarding young people onto the programme, working in collaboration with schools to ensure our referral criteria are met and we have the information we need.
Facilitating creative, arts and games-based workshops in school.
Supporting day-to-day administration and management of the programme including maintaining a database and producing written communications and reports.
Coordinating Adventure Youth Coaches, Volunteers, Instructors and School Supporting Staff on residential, as the main point of contact.
Managing disciplinary action as required if a situation is escalated higher than Adventure Youth Coaches or Volunteers.
Ensuring the highest standards of support, safety and safeguarding across the programme, in line with Basecamp’s ethos, policies and procedures.
Providing ongoing feedback to young people, parents, carers and schools, through email, Whatsapp and handwritten cards.
Working with partner organisation such as schools and instructors/activity providers, to ensure the Basecamp mission is consistent and everybody has the smoothest experience possible and to build the Basecamp ‘brand’ to an extent that the schools want to keep working with us and value the work that we do.
Contributing to organisational planning and development, including supporting the development of further opportunities for young people.
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Supporting our team to create, develop, test and implement a calendar of Basecamp events including third-party challenge events, Basecamp events and bespoke corporate adventure challenges. This calendar will support the building of both our new corporate partnerships programme, an innovative new take on traditional corporate fundraising as well as getting our brand-new Basecamp Community off the ground, our own version of an individual giving initiative.
This includes:
Undertake prospect research to identify corporate partners who we can build long-lasting, meaningful relationships with.
Identify key networking opportunities to help us raise our profile in West Yorkshire.
Support us to develop our pitch to prospective corporate partners, creating bespoke partnerships which demonstrate our ethos, culture and impact.
Support the development of our new Basecamp Community initiative, creating the necessary comms and finding interactive ways to get members involved and feel a part of the community.
Supporting the implementation of systems and protocols that will allow us to effectively manage logistics, budgeting, risk assessments, and delivery on the ground, establishing new supplier partnerships in the process.
Develop relationships with flagship event providers, maximising engagement with creative and far-reaching communication initiatives and providing supportive inspiring stewarding journeys for all involved.
Work collaboratively across fundraising and comms ensuring we maximise the effectiveness of each event and that they are supporting our other fundraising initiatives.