Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, would love you to come and join our dynamic team.

We are looking for an experienced worker who has excellent partnership working skills and experience of co-ordinating ambitious national projects and programmes. The Senior Development Worker (SDW) will play a key role in effectively managing key relationships with funders and partners. Generation CashBack is a CashBack for Communities project, delivered by a consortium of Youth Scotland, Scouts Scotland, Girlguiding Scotland and the Boys’ Brigade, funded by Scottish Government. It supports youth groups in areas of multiple deprivation to increase the opportunities available for young people and help them achieve their full potential.

If you have the relevant skills and experience in managing

YouthBorders is the network of voluntary and community based youth organisations in the Scottish Borders, supporting and promoting good quality youth work. We are recruiting for a new and exciting role to join the team at YouthBorders delivering a series of partnership projects and responding to increased demand for support from our growing membership.

The successful applicant will be motivated and purpose-driven, with a commitment and passion to strengthen communities. You will support our aim of improving young people’s lives though quality youthwork. You will have a flexible can-do attitude and willingness to actively contribute to the team. Your experience in working with young people will be evident in your knowledge of their issues and patience in building trusted relationships.

Includem requires an experienced Team Manager to lead our services based in Aberdeen on a 12-month fixed-term basis, to cover a period of maternity leave. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team that is co-located at Craigielea Children’s Centre, working in partnership with Aberdeen Children and Family Social Work.

The key responsibilities of the Team Manager include, but are not limited to:

• Manage service delivery to maximise capacity and ensure compliance with contract specifications.
• Maintain a young people focus in relation to services delivered by ensuring best outcomes achieved and recorded for young people.
• Lead a team of professionals, with responsibility for all elements of people management.
• Engage effectively with partner agencies on a day-to-day basis, in addition to seeking new opportunities for partnership/collaborative working.

About You

With proven experience of managing and supervising professional individuals delivering high quality services, you will be able to maximise service delivery resources efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of children, young people, and families. With knowledge of young people policies and legislation, you will put risk enablement at the heart of your decision making. In addition, you will possess:

• Educated to degree level in relevant qualification in Social Work or Social Care, or a willingness to work towards this.
• Ability to embrace challenges, take initiative, originate action, and work well with a great deal of autonomy.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders with well-reasoned arguments.
• Excellent attention to detail with a focus on continuous improvement.

Experience:

• Team management: 1 year (required)
• children social work: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• UK Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Full Job description can be found here:

includem.org/careers

Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, would love you to come and join our busy communications team.

We are looking for a communications professional to deliver engaging digital communications in a varied and rewarding role. As a national charity supporting 11,300 youth workers and the 105,000 young people they work with, we need someone passionate about telling that story and how youth work makes an impact on young people’s lives.

If you have the skills and experience to make a difference, then we would love you to hear from you!

Youth Scotland is the national charity for supporting and delivering community-based youth work. We support over 2,200 youth groups across the country, providing youth work opportunities for over 105,000 young people. These young people are supported by over 11,300 youth workers and volunteers.

Role Details

• Full-time: 35 hours per week

• Salary Scale: £24,327 - £25,809 (salary points 22 – 24)

• Based in Edinburgh, with some hybrid working

• Permanent