What You'll Do

• Welcome parents, children, schools and other visitors and help them have a brilliant experience
• Support and co-create activities including making, reading, learning, creative play and physical activity
• Help prepare, run and reset school visits, family sessions and weekend activity
• Support partner events and special activities taking place in the Space
• Keep activity areas, materials and equipment organised, stocked and ready to use
• Work alongside the Programme Manager, volunteers, Activity Facilitators and external partners
• Help gather feedback and test and improve activities
• Support attendance records, basic operational administration and clear handovers
• Help capture appropriate photos and short videos for DKC communications within agreed consent and safeguarding processes
• Pitch in wherever needed to help keep the Space running smoothly

Who We're Looking For

Lived experience of parenthood is essential for this role. Lived experience of fatherhood is desirable.

You could come from hospitality, events, education, youth work, museums, community organisations, sports, family attractions, customer experience or something completely different.

We're interested in what you can bring, not whether you've followed a traditional career path into this kind of work.

You will probably enjoy being around people, be confident interacting with children and adults and prefer an active working environment to sitting at a desk all day.

You'll use your initiative, be comfortable trying new things and enjoy being part of a small team.

Reliability is paramount. We want people who do what they say they will do, turn up when expected, communicate early if something changes and follow things through.

Professional experience with families, schools or children would be helpful but isn't essential if you have the right attitude and transferable skills.

What It's Like Working at DKC

We're small, ambitious and practical.

Our principle is: Keep it simple, visible and up to date – enough structure to create clarity and continuity but not so much process that it slows delivery.

We want people to take responsibility, use their initiative and suggest better ways of doing things.

And we want to:

• Have loads of fun along the way
• Don't take ourselves too seriously
• Celebrate the wins

Working Pattern

These are three-day-a-week roles and regular weekend working is required.

The Space will operate across weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Weekend cover will be shared across the team and working patterns will be communicated as far in advance as reasonably possible.

Candidates should expect to work Saturdays and/or Sundays regularly.

Some evening activity may occasionally be required.

Safeguarding and Right to Work

Children's safety and wellbeing are central to everything we do.

An Enhanced DBS check with the Children's Barred List check will be undertaken before appointment, alongside satisfactory references and right-to-work checks.

DKC will provide Designated Safeguarding Lead training and the other safeguarding and compliance training needed for the role.

You must have the right to work in the UK. DKC is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role and a right-to-work check will be completed before appointment.

How to Apply

Please send the below to info@dadskids.club:

• Your CV
• A short (one side of A4 max) written application explaining why you're interested
• A short informal video (1-3 minutes long) telling us why you want to work at Dads Kids Club and what excites you about the Space. No need to overthink it, just be yourself :)

A phone video is completely fine. We're interested in your motivation, communication and what you would bring to the role rather than production quality.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.

Closing date: Wednesday 21 October at 12 noon. Applications may be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage early applications. All applications received by the deadline will be considered.