Youth Participation and Outreach Lead
Stroud and the Cotswolds
About Us
At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869, and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community-based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.
We are now looking for a Youth Participation and Outreach Lead to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £28,315 - £31,073 per annum
- An annual paid leave entitlement of 25 working days plus bank holidays
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- Flexible working hours
- Enhanced paid sick leave
- Enhanced paid family leave provisions
- Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investment in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
This is an inspiring opportunity for a passionate and experienced youth leader to join our forward-looking organisation.
You'll be at the forefront of creating innovative youth participation strategies and programmes, developing meaningful opportunities that allow young people to engage, grow and thrive.
What's more, with a strong focus on professional development and personal growth, this permanent role offers you the chance to continue to enhance your skills in a supportive and nurturing environment.
So, if you're ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of young people and help shape the future of our community, we want to hear from you!
The Role
As our Youth Participation and Outreach Lead, you will develop and deliver participation opportunities for young people to influence and shape our local Youth Service provision across Stroud and the Cotswolds.
Working closely with young people, partners, and stakeholders, you will lead the service, championing the voice of children and young people whilst ensuring their views, experiences, opinions, and interests are considered.
You will create and implement youth participation strategies, develop and manage programmes that engage young people in social action and decision-making and ensure their voices are heard in all aspects of service delivery.
Additionally, you will:
- Build strong relationships
- Identify service gaps and support the co-design of youth services that meet these
- Promote youth participation through various media channels
- Supervise young people at youth centres and other locations
- Manage case records using a management information system
- Collaborate with local stakeholders to build a comprehensive youth participation strategy
- Promote youth engagement activities and events
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding, health and safety and equality policies
About You
To be considered as our Youth Participation and Outreach Lead, you will need:
- Experience in face-to-face youth work in a variety of settings
- Experience leading participation using different tools techniques and approaches
- Experience facilitating inclusive engagement and group work activities
- Experience supporting young people's voices and influence in decisions that affect their lives, individually and in their communities
- Experience managing safe youth work practice
- An understanding of issues impacting young people's emotional health and welling
- Knowledge of the National Participation Standards and the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures
- A recognised qualification in Youth and Community Work at a minimum of Level 3
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Please note, you must be prepared to work in the evenings and weekends and to take part in residential visits as required. You will also be required to travel between locations as appropriate.
The closing date for this role 16th September 2024 at 9:00am.
Other organisations may call this role Youth Engagement Manager, Youth Services Development Lead, Youth Programmes Manager, Community Youth Lead, or Youth Engagement and Development Manager.
Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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