Youth Development Lead (Partnerships & Volunteering) Education Focus
- Full time
- £20,300 – £25,100
- Scotland (North-East, South-West, Glasgow)
- Closing 22nd May 2022
- Advertised from 10th May 2022
- 35 hours per week. Salary dependent on your skills, knowledge and experience. Permanent and fixed-term roles available
Role
Within our Partnerships and Volunteering Team, we currently have some exciting opportunities to join our Teams across Scotland!
The Partnerships & Volunteering team are responsible for providing quality indirect support to our many Schools, Colleges and Partners who deliver our Education Offer and Personal Development Programmes as well as supporting and developing a dedicated team of volunteers across Scotland. You will be responsible for managing relationships with various partners & volunteers, including Teachers, College staff as well as delivering training, organising events and managing data. You will get the opportunity to develop and introduce enrichment within the Programmes also.
This role is perfect for you if you are great with people and enjoy building relationships, with the occasional face to face delivery with Young People. If you have knowledge of the Education system or experience in working with and managing volunteers that would be a bonus, but not necessary.
We have opportunities available Scotland-Wide, including North-East Scotland, South-West Scotland and Glasgow.
If you are up for a challenge and working in a great team, we would love to hear from you! Your application will be a CV and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement must provide evidence of how you have acquired and applied each of the essential skills, knowledge and experience criteria and if possible, each of the desirable skills, knowledge and experience criteria, outlined in the job description, in current and previous roles, or other scenarios.
For more information, please click here for the job description.
Why we need Youth Development Leads:
Last year, we helped more than 70,000 young people, with three in four young people on our programmes, move into work, education or training.
The young people we help face a range of challenges, such as unemployment, mental health issues or some have been in trouble with the law. Our job is to inspire and support young people, to help them reach their potential so that they can thrive and society can prosper.
We believe all young people should have the chance to succeed, and that young people are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.
Perks for working at The Trust:
- Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
- Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
- Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
- In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
- The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
- You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
Application notes
To apply please visit our website
Here at The Prince's Trust, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives.
We’re a Stonewall Diversity Champion and we are an employer that is Disability Confident. Our staff, volunteers and young people are supported by PT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), PT GEN (Gender Equality Network), PT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and Pulse (LGBT Network). For more information, click here.
The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.
A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:
We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!
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Top job! Learning, Evidence and Impact Lead
- Part time
- £30,436 – £42,146 pro-rata
- Home based
- Closing 27th May 2022
As part of Life Changes Trust's legacy work, Staf are delighted to be recruiting for a new role to create an online learning channel which will host the outcomes and learning from the many amazing projects funded during the past 5 years. Working with people with lived experience, you will lead on the channel's development and creating an evidence and impact strategy for Staf.
About Staf
Staf is Scotland’s membership organisation for all those involved in the lives of young people leaving care, with over 70 members across the public, third and independent sectors. Our vision is that the wellbeing and success of young people leaving care in Scotland is indistinguishable from their peers in the general population.
We work with and alongside young people and those who support them to achieve our vision through participation projects, the development of policy and practice and our programme of learning events.
The role
We are delighted to be creating a new role, as part of Life Changes Trust's Legacy work, to ensure that the learning of the many projects LCT have supported over the past 5 years is brought to life on an online Learning Channel.
The successful applicant will lead on the development of our online Learning Channel which will host the Life Changes Trust legacy work and to support the development of an evidencing and impact strategy for the organisation. The post-holder must have a commitment to working with people with lived experience and in ensuring their views and aspirations are central to the development of the Learning Channel.
Working with a steering group of Staf members and people with care experience, you will design and deliver a series of workshops, online events and roundtables across Scotland to develop the online learning channel, and a series of "how to" guides, using the learning from LCTs projects.
You will also play a key role in the development of an evidencing and impact tool for Staf.
Membership and Networks Officer
- Part time
- £26,390 pro-rata
- Scottish Borders – YouthBorders is a home working organisation, regular travel within the Scottish Borders should be anticipated.
- Closing 24th May 2022
YouthBorders is the network of voluntary and community-based youth organisations in the Scottish Borders, supporting and promoting good quality youth work.
YouthBorders is growing our team to respond to increased demand for our support; and following sustained membership growth over the past 2 years. We are recruiting flexibly for staff to join us to further our Membership and Networks support. This opportunity is available as 1 post of 28 hours/week; or could be split in to two positions, one of 17.5 hours and one of 10.5 hours per week.
Successful applicants will be motivated and driven, with a commitment and passion to strengthening communities. You will be membership focused and deliver outputs and achieve outcomes which advances the relationship between YouthBorders and our members. You will support our aim of improving young people’s lives through quality youth work.
You will work alongside our Senior Membership Development Officer to fulfil the organisation’s requirements for membership support, development and growth. You will establish and support a Voluntary and Community Services Network which engages with third sector organisations (specifically those providing emotional health and wellbeing support to young adults aged 16-25) to further collaboration, partnership, and to amplify the voice of organisations and their service users.
Pre-employment Checks: PVG and Satisfactory References
Youth Justice Participation Worker
- Part time
- £25,993 – £30,815 pro-rata
- Home based with regular meetings in Glasgow
- Closing 27th May 2022
Staf are delighted to be recruiting for a new role to support the expansion of Youth Justice Voices, Staf and the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) national participation project for care and justice experienced young people.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right applicant to support a prestigious, creative and dynamic youth-led project which is influencing real change in the care and justice systems in Scotland. If you are passionate about driving change and developing meaningful participation opportunities and relationships with young people then we want to hear from you.
Background:
Established in 1998, Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum) is a membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care. Staf is a national organisation which represents all 32 Local authorities in Scotland and is funded by membership fees, Scottish Government and other major charities. At the centre of all our work is the voice of young people leaving care and making the change that will allow them to live happy successful lives on their own terms.
Over the past 3 years we have been working in partnership with The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) creatively amplifying the voice of care and justice experienced young people through our national youth-led participation project Youth Justice Voices.
The role
Thanks to funding from The Promise (A Good Childhood) this is an exciting opportunity to use your youth work skills to influence change and amplify the voice of care experienced young people within the justice systems by supporting us to expand Youth Justice Voices into a national network, with a specific focus on establishing youth-led steering groups beyond the central belt.
With a qualification in Community Education and a proven track record the successful applicant will engage with young people with experience of the care and justice systems in order to amplify their voice and support systems change. This will be done in a collaborative way with Youth Justice Voices staff, young people and partner agencies to expand the work of the project into a national network.
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Youth Engagement Manager
- Full time
- £24,000
- Homebased (travel required around Glasgow)
- Closing 26th May 2022
Volunteering Matters
At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.
We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues. From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence, and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great. And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.
People-led and impact driven, we are a national charity that is deeply embedded in local areas across the UK. We operate in five regions: London and the South East; Wales and the West of England; East of England; the Midlands and North West England; and Scotland and North East England. We also have an Employee Volunteering Team with over 25 years’ experience, acting as a broker to provide tailor-made solutions to employers. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team. We’re changing the way we work to meet new ambitions and make sure our impact continues to grow alongside out business.
Role Purpose
We are looking for a talented, dynamic, and professional Youth Engagement Manager to join our team in the Glasgow City. The right candidate would be someone who can work flexibly and demonstrate an understanding and total commitment to our organisational values.
You will directly support young people aged 16 to 24 across Glasgow, who may have complex and challenging barriers that prevent them from achieving a positive pathway towards the next stage of their lives. Your work is aligned with the Young Person's Guarantee, which is Scotland’s commitment to bring together employers, partners and young people. It aims to connect every 16 to 24 year old in Scotland to an opportunity. This could be a job, apprenticeship, further or higher education, training or volunteering.
Your support in Glasgow will include barrier identification and removal, elements of one to one employability support, and given our passion for volunteering, focus will be on supporting young people to embrace a local volunteering placement as an excellent route to work/next steps in life. Each young person we work with are offered a mentor and so you will also work alongside colleagues in our Mentoring team, ensuring young people have the opportunity to benefit from a ProjectScotland Volunteer Mentor.
You will manage and develop our networks and relationships in the area, including within education, social work and employability teams, to secure referral pathways into our service. You will identify and build partnerships with charitable and not-for-profit organisations across Glasgow who will host volunteer placements.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
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