Are you passionate about young people leading change and making a difference to their community, society and environment?

YouthLink Scotland is recruiting a Senior Development Officer to develop youth social action and youth volunteering in the youth work sector and co-ordinate the #IWill movement in Scotland.

To drive forward the #IWill movement in Scotland, this role will involve collaboration with young people, key strategic partners in a range of sectors and funders, across Scotland and the rest of the UK and utilising social media to communicate the aims and achievements of the movement.

The post holder will project manage YouthLink Scotland’s work within the #YouthVIP Consortium, delivering recommendations contributing to Volunteering policy and infrastructure.

This post would suit a self-driven, natural collaborator with excellent project management and organisation skills and the ability to deliver national projects involving multiple partners and stakeholders. The candidate will be great at building effective relationships with young people, our YouthLink Scotland member organisations and external stakeholders.

We are seeking someone who has previous experience of delivering youth work/ youth participation. The candidate should have an understanding of the value of youth social action, the role that youth work has in supporting young people to take action and volunteer and knowledge of the voluntary sector in Scotland. They should be an excellent communicator, with strong partnership skills and have experience of using creative approaches to engage with and influence diverse audiences.

A Qualification to SCQF LEVEL10 or have relevant skills and experience in a relevant discipline e.g. Social Sciences, Youth Work, Community Learning and Development.

Our Smart Services Manager will lead the strategic development of Young Scot services around the Young Scot National Entitlement Card (Young Scot NEC), including our Young Scot Membership services. You will work closely with external strategic partners to help give young people personalised enhanced entitlements, opportunities, incentives and services via their Young Scot NEC – all in a non-stigmatising way.

What you’ll be doing from day-to-day

• Developing and delivering Young Scot NEC existing and new associated programmes, products and services.
• Working with stakeholders on developing and delivering a new Young Scot NEC for smartphones.
• Building strategic relationships with Local Authority partners, partner agencies and sector experts.
• Ensuring data and insights are collected and using this insight to improve service delivery.
• Line managing and developing colleagues.
• Other relevant duties to support the Senior Leadership Team.

A great candidate will have a mix of these skills and experiences:

• Experience of working in a fast-paced digital or technology environment, including developing smart card solutions.
• Experience of using innovative approaches to learning and developing products in an agile way.
• Knowledge and understanding of how to use data and insights to improve services.
• Knowledge and understanding of developing and managing successful internal and external strategic projects and partnerships.
• Excellent written and spoken communications skills.
• Able to work in a team and lead on own initiative.

We are Rock Trust and our vision is an end to youth homelessness in Scotland Who we are For 30 years we have been working to prevent youth homelessness and to support young people to build better futures. We aim to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness. We work to ensure that the public, policy makers, commissioners and practitioners understand the issues, make decisions and take action which will help us to end youth homelessness.

The Health and Wellbeing Worker will be working along side two art therapists and a peer mentor project worker in the team. The team’s focus is supporting young people’s mental health who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. They will receive individual and group clinical supervision. The Health and Wellbeing Worker will be based within the Youth Development Team but will work with other teams in the organisation. The Health and Wellbeing Worker will use a person-centered approach with young people to build trust and enable them to improve outcomes with a focus on:

• Mental and emotional health, self-esteem, and confidence
• Relationships, boundaries, and safety

The Health and Wellbeing Worker will work with young people within drop ins, one-to-one support, and group work. Where appropriate they will support young people to gain additional support from statutory services.

The Role

This is an opportunity to join a small, dynamic, ambitious and welcoming team that believes in the transformative power of youth work and the power of partnerships. Operations Officers support the operational delivery and development of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) through managing a portfolio of Licensed Organisations (LOs).

LOs range from local authorities, state and independent schools to youth organisations, secure units and community groups. The DofE Scotland Operations team works with these licensed organisations to build their capacity, support their reach into more marginalised communities and ensure quality and compliance with the Award framework.

The DofE Scotland office covers DofE activity across the length and breadth of Scotland, working with over 140 Licensed Organisations and over 17,000 young people in the last year alone. Each Operations Officer manages a portfolio based on broad geographic region.

The role will be field-based and when not attending meetings, employees will work from home. You will need to have an appropriate home office set up and live within the region.

What we are looking for:

The successful candidate will be a dynamic and proactive team player, who is able to embrace innovation and change. You will be a confident and effective communicator and collaborater and have experience of building and sustaining relationships with stakeholders across the education and/or youth and community sectors.

You will be a passionate advocate for the work of the DofE and motivated by the charity’s strategic ambition to give more than one million young people the chance to participate in our life-changing programmes, over the next four years.

If you think you have the desired skills and experience, then please do apply online. As part of the application process, you will be expected to complete a statement of suitability and answer competency-based questions relevant to the role to help us assess your application.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, volunteering days, Healthcare cash plan and an employee assistance programme.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced criminal record check (e.g. DBS/PVG or similar).