About Us

The team at DRC Youth Project (SCIO) have over 20 years supporting young people and their communities in North-West Glasgow. At the DRC, our mission is to empower young people to make positive choices, develop life skills, and engage meaningfully in their communities.

Through a mix of youth and employability activities, volunteering opportunities and community support programmes, including our Pantry initiative, we aim to create a safe, inclusive, and inspiring environment where everyone can thrive.

About the Role

This is a dual role which includes:

• Managing the Community Pantry to ensure smooth, safe, and sustainable operations
• Supporting and mentoring young volunteers, helping them gain skills, confidence, and pathways to employment
• Working with the Pathfinder employability team to strengthen progression routes for young people

This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is passionate about youth development and community support.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in retail, food management, or similar operations
• Experience working with young people or volunteers
• Strong organisational and communication skills
• A positive, flexible, and proactive approach
• Aged 25+ with a UK driving licence

We are seeking a dynamic, highly motivated individual who will play a key role in developing and delivering a program of youth work activities for children and young people (primarily aged 8-11) across West Dunbartonshire.

Your role will involve creating play, learning and wellbeing activities for those aged 8-12 years, to help support them in developing friendships, learning new skills and have fun. This will be delivered all year round including supporting our current youth club, group and holiday provision.

You will be active at providing support and encouragement, helping children & young people to overcome challenges and /or barriers working towards goals to improve their confidence, skills and personal growth, especially as they transition from Primary to High School.

You will be plan, deliver and lead a wide variety of high quality workshops or play-based activities for children & young people, creating a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment, which will promote physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.

Your role will involve working closely with family members, schools, partner agencies by building quality relationships with children and families. You will create and strengthen links between children, young people and their wider community by connecting families to other support services.

The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work of the Planet Youth Work programme including overnight stays.

You will be directly managed by Y sort it Planet Youth Management Team.

Do you want to work directly with young people? Helping them shape their own activities, learning and spaces?

Penicuik YMCA-YWCA are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Youth Development Worker who is committed to developing and supporting young people through a universal youth work programme approach.

The universal youth work programme supports young people in Penicuik through the provision of community youth clubs at our dedicated Youth Hub and with partners.

The universal youth work programme provides key frontline services supporting local young people. Through our universal youth work approach, we provide real opportunities for young people to form new friendships. Improving their communication, understanding, confidence and self-esteem by providing opportunities to participate in a range of activities and projects, normally unavailable to them. We build positive relationships with local young people, encourage them to engage in something that will inspire them to make good choices, develop ambition and support them to achieve personal milestones that will lead them to create their own personal, positive pathways.

Our Youth Development Worker post is initially for a fixed term of 12 months, 16hrs per week at £14.50 per hour, annual salary £26,390 pro rata.

We are currently seeking to enhance our Board of Directors through the recruitment of suitable volunteers. A commitment to young people and youth work is essential and experience in GDPR, management of voluntary organisations or strategic development would be advantageous.

The Board of Directors meet bimonthly at our office in Dumbryden Drive; meetings are held in the evening. There is no remuneration for Directors, however, all reasonable expenses are reimbursed.

This role is subject to PVG Membership.