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 a worker to join our youth work and training team and help us develop and deliver engaging training programmes which will be used to inspire and upskill young people and youth workers across Scotland.

If you have experience of youth and community work, a passion for making learning fun and engaging, an interest in e-learning and digital and a desire to share your skills with others, then this role is for you.

SYP has a proud history of championing youth-led projects and campaigns that drive meaningful policy change. Our programmes and participation activities use a youth work ethos to support young people across Scotland to develop skills and experiences, discuss the issues that are important to them, and influence change.

Working within SYP’s youth-led structure, our Participation and Programmes Officer will work with young people and the Participation and Programmes team to plan, deliver, amplify, and evaluate our activities, in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

If you are passionate about amplifying young people’s voices and have the skills to support young people’s meaningful participation in decision-making, we would love to hear from you.

Canongate Youth’s mission is to provide high quality youth work services that support children and young people to flourish. We aim to nurture aspirations, build relationships, provide opportunities, and strengthen wellbeing. Throughout our history we have put children and young people at the heart of what we do to deliver services to those who need it most. Across the organisation we support children and young people to:

• Have increased confidence and to be themselves
• Have improved health and wellbeing
• Be more capable of developing positive relationships
• Participate more in their communities and feel more included
• Have increased life skills

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting children and young people we are seeking to recruit for the following post:

Sessional Youth Worker

Canongate Youth provides a range of services, opportunities and support to children and young people aged 5-24 over the South East locality of the city. As part of our ongoing commitment to empowering children and young people and providing quality youth work services we are seeking to recruit for the following post:

Sessional Youth Workers @ £16 per hour

Various hours available

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and fun person who can support the delivery of our youth work services. The post holder will have experience of working with young people, delivering high quality activities and building relationships with young people and their families.

Sessional staff may be required to deliver innovative and creative one-to-one and group work support, actively helping young people (YP) in schools and/or in the community. This may include working outdoors and delivering play-based activities with children and young people.

Additional responsibilities may involve covering our Open All Hours provision at the Commonwealth Pool on Friday evenings—facilitating activities such as swimming, providing a chill-out space, supporting sports sessions, and working alongside personal trainers in the gym. Sessional staff may also be asked to support our universal youth work provision for young people aged 5–18.

We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills who can demonstrate the ability to build positive relationships. The ideal candidate will help us work towards our outcomes and uphold the values of the organisation.

The post is subject to the receipt of two suitable references and membership of the PVG Scheme.

An exciting opportunity exists at MYPAS to improve the health and wellbeing of young people across Midlothian, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. This new role will be improving on existing successful fundraising as well as diversifying the organisation’s fundraising streams. With previous experience fundraising in at least some of the following areas - individual giving, community and events fundraising, corporate giving, trusts and grants, public sector contracts – you will occupy a pivotal role in increasing the organisations capacity to provide our much needed services for vulnerable young people.

This is a full-time role but we would consider part-time hours.

Role

The key purpose of this post is to provide a range of fundraising and communication functions for the organisation. Working with the Chief Executive, Service Management Team, the Ambassadors group, the Board and the wider staff team, the postholder will lead in increasing the performance of existing fundraising initiatives whilst further diversifying funding streams. The role will focus, initially, on supporting community, individual and corporate giving as well as trusts and challenge events but will grow and develop with the needs of the organisation.

This post may require evening and occasional weekend work: some evening and weekend work may be necessary – based on advance notice and a TOIL system. The post requires flexibility during peak fundraising periods such as seasonal events and MYPAS run community events.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dave Evans (Chief Executive) on 0131 4540757

Special conditions:

• The post is funded for an initial fixed term for one year – continuation dependent on securing additional funding
• The post may involve evening and occasional weekend working.
• You must be able to travel across Midlothian and East Lothian if required