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Role

The Training Director is responsible for what is at the very heart of Sexpression - Relationships and Sex Education teaching! They work to enable Branches to train their volunteers and then support them in planning sessions delivered to young people. They oversee and update our Core Offer to ensure our teaching remains relevant to young people’s needs. The workload is high at the start of the year and culminates at the Training Weekends, but after that, there is a lot of flexibility to work whenever convenient.

This role can be held by two Training Directors to facilitate Training Weekends in the North and South of the UK, respectively. Where two Training Directors are appointed, the role’s responsibilities will be equally delegated between them, with support from the National Director to achieve this.

NB: Training Directors must be available for Training Weekends in September and preferably a second date for Refresher Training in January/Early February.

Alignment with skills and careers

Skills

• Communication
• Organisation
• Leadership

Careers

• Teacher
• Freelance educator
• HR
• Researcher, particularly within the Social Sciences

Responsibilites

• Oversee Sexpression:UK’s annual Training Weekends
  • Organise the Northern and Southern Training Weekends at the beginning of each academic year.
  • During the Weekends, deliver facilitation training to branch members and organise branch method exchanges.
• Support Branches
  • Organise, maintain, and update facilitation resources for Branches to use when creating lesson plans.
  • Advise the Branches on their training and teaching materials
  • Deliver facilitation training to new Branches and support them as they start teaching
  • Consistently improve the accessibility of facilitation and training resources
  • Update Sexpression:UK’s Core Offer in collaboration with the National Committee and in consultation with the Trustees when necessary
  • Promote national and international training opportunities for Branches
  • Work with the Monitoring and Evaluations Director to collect, analyse, report on, and make decisions regarding feedback on Sexpression:UK’s facilitation sessions. This may include, but is not limited to, feedback from volunteers, Trustees, school staff, school students, and university students.
• Support the Branches in arranging facilitation sessions.
  • This should primarily occur in the third term of university, by consistently communicating with schools, trusts, academies, youth groups, etc., nationally on behalf of the branches.
  • Contacts should be disseminated to relevant branches as soon as possible to maximise the chances of branches being booked to deliver facilitation sessions.