Project Scotland, is delighted to announce that it has been asked to support the delivery of the Young Persons Guarantee by the Scottish Government, this will enable us to reach more young people and support them in their journey to a positive destination through volunteering.We are therefore looking to grow our team.

We are looking to recruit 3 youth engagement managers to cover Dundee, Glasgow and Galloway. All of our staff are working from home just now, but we expect the Youth Engagement Managers to be locality focused going forward. We are looking to extend our services in Glasgow, and Galloway, and establish a new presence in Perth.

All the posts have the potential to be full time but we are willing to offer more flexible arrangements to suit individual circumstances. Roles will be offered until 31st March 2021 when the posts will be reviewed. We are anticipating further demand for our services, and we are therefore also looking to develop a pool of potential candidates.

Job Purpose

• To support people who engage with our service and identify and support any barriers or challengers highlighted by them.
• To identify, develop, and manage partnerships with charitable and not-for-profit organisations across your designated area.
• To create diverse, high-quality structured volunteering opportunities with partner organisations, ensuring that roles reflect the needs and interests of the various people who want to volunteer.
• To create, develop and manage partnerships with referral partners across the third sector.

Main duties

• To meet specified annual targets in placing volunteers, and achieving positive outcomes for people in those placements
• To develop and maintain excellent relationships with charity partners and local referral partnerships who both refer and host people who could benefit from our services.
• To identify and develop relationships with new partners to provide additional volunteering opportunities as required
• To research and engage with partners to provide required coverage of placement sector and geography
• To manage the risk assessment, quality assurance and audit of partners as appropriate
• To manage all elements of the volunteer experience from application to completion of their volunteering opportunity, and beyond
• To speak directly to volunteers and understand their wants, needs and aspirations and determine the best opportunity for each volunteer
• To lead on the monitoring and evaluation of projects and the volunteer/partner experience.
• To ensure all the above is done with excellent record keeping, in accordance with compliance requirements of the funder.

Please download the Job Description below to find out more about this role.

Our service supports families in the Dumfries and Galloway area who are struggling to cope. The families we work with may have a wide range of issues, which include drug and alcohol use within the family. As a Child and Family worker you would work directly with the whole family in various settings, such as their own homes, our dedicated base and other community locations. COVID-19 precautions are currently in place within the service.

You would become the trusted person that they could talk about what they are going through at home whilst undertaking assessments to identify what support we can provide. You would work with the children and the family offering practical help, in the community, family home, liaising with partner agencies, schools and nurseries. Participate and lead our homework and other group work sessions. Attending meetings, children hearings, meetings school when necessary. You would help establish routines and build life skills with families. In addition to this we offer regular group sessions which help build parenting skills and their confidence.

We are looking for someone to join our friendly and supportive team. You should have a sound knowledge of child development and be able to work with parents either individually or in groups to develop their parenting skills & confidence.

We are looking for a Child and Family Worker who will be working 30 hours per week with the potential to be worked flexibly, evening/weekend work may be required dependant on the service need. An allowance is incorporated in the salary to support this requirement. This post is offered on a fixed term basis until 31st March 2021, however we hopeful that extended funding will allow us to continue this post for a further 2 years.

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