Youth Development Worker (Paisley)
- Part time
- £23,390 – £27,976 pro-rata
- Paisley
- Closing 10th February 2023
- Advertised from 31st January 2023
- On average, 28 hours per week, salary pro rata’d to £18,712 - £22,380.80) depending on experience
Role
CREATE Paisley (CREATE) is an innovative youth arts charity aiming to reduce loneliness and inequality. Our vision is to see young people transformed through creativity, community, confidence and finding their voice. We do this through providing safe, creative spaces and opportunities for young people in which they can thrive and build positive relationships and gain support from trusted adults.
CREATE runs drop ins, arts workshops, youth voice & participation activities, mentoring, etc., amongst other projects, in partnership with a wide variety of groups in the area, and is supported and run by a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. CREATE has the following values: creativity, community, confidence and voice. These inform our approach and work.
CREATE Paisley is looking to appoint a Youth Development Worker to lead on and develop the charity’s approach to and delivery of youth work activities in Paisley.
The Youth Development Worker will:
1. Facilitate current and new youth work provision
2. Support the organisation to respond to young people’s voices
3. Manage youth work projects and budgets
4. Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation within all youth work activities
5. Support the recruitment and training of new staff and volunteers
Application notes
To find out more and apply please visit our website createpaisley.org.uk/jobs
Closing date: Friday 10 February 12noon
Interview Date: Fri 17 Feb
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Duke of Edinburgh Award and Community Co-ordinator
- Part time
- £23,000 – £25,000 pro-rata
- Edinburgh
- Closing 29th September 2023
We are seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to join our team as the Duke of Edinburgh Award and Community Co-ordinator. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of young people, fostering their personal development, and introducing them to new opportunities through the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and engaging with all young people attending our club, ensuring they remain at the heart of our club's activities. A key aspect of this role is to develop and implement the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme for our club members, providing them with exciting opportunities for personal growth and development. Additionally, the Co-ordinator will establish professional relationships with DofE providers, particularly DofE Scotland and Edinburgh City Council DofE, to deliver the award. If you are passionate about youth empowerment and community engagement, we invite you to apply and join our dedicated team at FetLor Youth Club.
Purpose of Job - A Multiply Funded Project
The Project Coordinator will lead a team of three Project Workers to deliver an adult engagement programme across Shettleston, in particular supporting parents / carers of children at three primary schools in our area – Eastbank, St. Timothy’s and Thorntree Primary schools. In addition, we will deliver similar support to parents at St. Andrew’s Secondary as well as a programme of support within Fuse itself, targeted at the wider community.
The programme is targeted at those needing the confidence to take the initial steps to improving their numeracy and so will be relatively light touch, acting as a “gateway” to other numeracy support offered through Multiply. Our intention is not to duplicate existing numeracy provision but to complement and add value to it. Where we can best do this is by engaging potential participants in a way that others cannot because of our position and existing relationships and focusing specifically on light-touch confidence building and basic skills elements. We anticipate that this will encourage our participants to engage with further, more intensive numeracy support, and we will set specific targets for us referring participants to these other providers.
We anticipate that take-up at a school’s level will disproportionately be from female parents / carers, albeit we will encourage participation from both females and males. We expect that wider community provision will place a particular emphasis on encouraging males to take part and programmes and promotional activity will be constructed to encourage this.
Some of the initial platforms for engagement may be sessions which will be simple entry level participation. Walking Groups, health and fitness and baking have all been used in the past to build confidence and relationships.
Typically, these programmes will involve:
- 1-hour sessions over an approximate 6-week timescale; this will be enough to make a difference without being off-putting to participants, who have not previously had experience of such support. Support will be delivered on a small group (and sometimes individual) basis as required.
- This will be an introductory programme to engage people that would otherwise not take up numeracy support due to stigma and / or a lack of confidence; it will act as a “gateway” to more intensive support from other providers.
Top job! Planet Youth Strategic Delivery Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £35,000 – £45,000
- Edinburgh - Hybrid
- Closing 30th October 2023
What is planet youth?
Planet Youth is based on an approach first trialled in Iceland, where they saw spectacular results leading to Icelandic teens being labelled ‘The cleanest living teens in Europe’. It involves using surveys to take a snapshot of teenage life in a local area, and then working with the community to address the needs and issues raised in the surveys.
In 2021 we surveyed teens across 13 Scottish high schools and this year will be reaching 24 schools across 6 areas, with enhanced and strengthened local coalitions groups created to drive change.
Visit winningscotland.org/planetyouth and planetyouth.scot for more.
Overview
Following the award of significant funding by the Scottish Government, Planet Youth is being accelerated in Scotland, through a two-year pilot phase led by Winning Scotland. We are looking to take on a Strategic Delivery Manager to grow the model in Scotland by strengthening its reach in local areas and increasing its profile across the country.
Over the next 18 months, we want to support existing partners who work with the model to ensure that it is as effective as possible, and that learning about the model is spread widely.
This is an exciting role, joining at a pivotal time for the Planet Youth programme. You will be expected to manage a range of complex and sensitive relationships as well as contributing to the development and delivery of a programme of work spanning diverse local and national partners. You will bring clear leadership to this work, working closely with other Winning Scotland colleagues and reporting to the Youth Programme Director.
Supported by our Planet Youth Programme Director, you will take responsibility for the Planet Youth network management and development whilst leading programme monitoring to support reporting through the governance framework and evaluation work.
The Role
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for the right person to play a leading role in the implementation and success of Planet Youth in Scotland, an evidence-based model creating a positive change in the lives and decisions of our teenagers and young people.
We are looking for someone who is inspiring and proactive, with strong experience of working on projects and programmes delivering real change. This role calls for a self-starter and someone who can work under their own initiative to drive strong collaborative endeavour, making the most of all the skills, knowledge and experience that is available internally and externally to the programme.
To succeed, you will need to be highly collaborative, well organised and someone who can establish and build strong relationships, and team spirit, within both the immediate team in Winning Scotland and also the wider Planet Youth family. You will also be adept at problem solving, finding appropriate solutions to issues that might arise, swiftly and creatively.
You will have significant experience operating in a comparable role, with strong project management competencies and analytical aptitude. The role offers an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of other people, providing stimulating professional interest and challenge.
You will be an ambassador for Planet Youth, and Winning Scotland, so strong influencing and negotiating skills will be essential as well as high levels of integrity. The role is not have currently anticipated to have direct line management responsibilities; however, people management competencies will be important given that the post-holder will need to develop and maintain close productive working relationships with the local leads.
Responsibilities
- Strategic responsibility for partner delivery coordination, ensuring effective operational planning and implementation of all activities required by the model, working closely with local partners across the pilot areas
- Ensure effective and efficient strategy development and implementation for local partner engagement, providing the support and challenge required to optimise the value derived from the grant funding, whilst capturing learning and driving improvement as appropriate
- Create and drive networks and knowledge exchange opportunities between all of the Planet Youth Scotland local areas, bringing in external expertise as required
- Represent the organisation at events, conferences and in the print and social media in respect of the programme.
- Plan and execute data gathering from partners on a regular basis, and driving the strategic usage of this data, processing and analysing it for progress monitoring and reporting purposes
- Provide proactive support for programme evaluation work and scoping forward developments, working with colleagues across the wider Winning Scotland team
Experience required
Essential criteria
- Excellent project planning and management competencies, adept at designing and implementing supporting processes and competent with standard business tools / software to enable efficient collaborative working and programme delivery
- Operational stakeholder engagement, building rapport and providing an effective support and challenge function
- Strategic thinking: horizon scanning and forward planning
- Analytical aptitude for data and information gathering followed by digestion into reporting outputs for a range of audiences, ensuring clarity and high attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proactive and able to work at pace under own initiative with minimal steer, manage competing priorities in a complex landscape and deliver milestones to high standards
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the Scottish delivery landscape supporting work for children and young people, and current national and local government policies that are relevant to Planet Youth (across, e.g., education, community, health, prevention)
- Understanding of relevant local and national government structures and approaches to decision making
- Data management and analytical skills
Location:Hybrid working includes 1-2 days in the Edinburgh office each week, including every Thursday
Top job! Planet Youth National Development Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £35,000 – £45,000
- Edinburgh - Hybrid
- Closing 30th October 2023
What is planet youth?
Planet Youth is based on an approach first trialled in Iceland, where they saw spectacular results leading to Icelandic teens being labelled ‘The cleanest living teens in Europe’. It involves using surveys to take a snapshot of teenage life in a local area, and then working with the community to address the needs and issues raised in the surveys.
In 2021 we surveyed teens across 13 Scottish high schools and this year will be reaching 24 schools across 6 areas, with enhanced and strengthened local coalitions groups created to drive change.
Visit winningscotland.org/planetyouth and planetyouth.scot for more.
Overview
Following the award of significant funding by the Scottish Government, Planet Youth is being accelerated in Scotland, through a two-year pilot phase led by Winning Scotland. We are looking to take on a National Development Manager to support the piloting and potential growth of the model in Scotland. In particular, the role will focus on assessing the strategic potential of Planet Youth as a model for improvement work for young people going forward. This will involve ensuring that learning about the model is spread widely, increasing the Planet Youth programme’s profile in Scotland, and stimulating dialogue across local and national stakeholders to shape future strategy around upstream prevention work.
This is an exciting role, joining at a pivotal time for the Planet Youth programme. You will be expected to develop and manage a range of complex and sensitive relationships, influencing dialogue and development work as the programme delivery work unfolds. You will bring clear leadership to this work, working closely with other Winning Scotland colleagues and reporting to the Youth Programme Director.
Supported by our Programme Director, you will focus on forwards development of strategy in relation to locally-driven upstream prevention work for children and young people, playing a significant role in shaping future Planet Youth strategy in light of learning from the programme to date.
The Role
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the implementation and success of Planet Youth in Scotland, an evidence-based model creating a positive change in the lives and decisions of our teenagers and young people.
We are looking for someone who is inspiring and proactive, with strong experience of developing strategy to deliver real change, working within a broad and complex policy and delivery landscape. This role calls for a self-starter and someone who can work under their own initiative to drive strong collaborative endeavour, making the most of all the skills, knowledge and experience that is available internally and externally to the programme.
To succeed, you will need to be forward thinking and highly collaborative and someone who can establish and build strong relationships, and team spirit, within both the immediate team in Winning Scotland and also the wider Planet Youth family. You will be a strategic thinker, adept at horizon scanning and problem solving, identifying opportunities for positive change and developing strategic solutions to policy and delivery issues around young people’s health and
well-being. driving forward the outcomes sought by Winning Scotland around their resilience, confidence and empowerment.
You will have significant experience around policy and strategy development, with analytical aptitude to drive programme evaluation work and utilise findings effectively. The role offers an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of other people, providing stimulating professional interest and challenge.
You will be an ambassador for Planet Youth, and Winning Scotland, so strong influencing and negotiating skills will be essential, along with high levels of integrity.
Responsibilities
- Responsibility for strategic stakeholder engagement around the forwards development of Planet Youth in Scotland in light of experience from the pilot programme.
- Lead on the development of wider communications activity and events to share learning and stimulate thinking around the programme, nurturing strategic-level relationships across interests including national and local government, delivery agencies, third sector organisations including those reaching young people and and parents.
- Manage analytical development work and the delivery of robust programme evaluation to inform wider thinking around next steps from the pilot.
- Develop forwards strategy in the wake of the Planet Youth pilot, including thinking around alternative options/innovations, working with existing and potential new local stakeholders to scope approaches to expanding the pilot as appropriate.
- Engage proactively with national level partners (e.g., Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland) to scope out opportunities for future developments and further innovation .
- Support fundraising activity by Winning Scotland to drive the delivery of further initiatives and projects to promote upstream prevention work for young people
Experience required
Essential criteria
- Strategic thinking: horizon scanning and forward planning
- Stakeholder engagement and political acuity
- Analytical aptitude, able to shape evaluation work and utilise findings effectively
- Project planning and management competencies, highly competent with standard business tools / software to enable efficient collaborative working
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proactive and able to work at pace under own initiative with minimal steer, manage competing priorities in a complex landscape and deliver milestones to high standards
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the Scottish delivery landscape supporting work for children and young people, and current national and local government policies that are relevant to planet Youth (across, e.g., education, community, health, prevention)
- Understanding of relevant local and national government structures and approaches to decision making
- Data management and analytical skills.
Location:Hybrid working includes 1-2 days in the Edinburgh office each week, including every Thursday
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