Youth Lead (Networks & Opportunities)
- Part time
- £25,989 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Clarkston and Barrhead with East Renfrewshire wide travel requiredwide travel required
- Closing 1st June 2025
- Advertised from 15th May 2025
- £12,994.50 - 17½ hours (evening and weekend work may be required). Contract: to 31st May 2026.
Role
Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire SCIO (VAER) help local people, groups and organisations to work together to shape their communities.
Job Role
We are looking for an experienced, proactive, and well organised person with a passion for working with people to join our team as Youth Lead (Networks & Opportunities).
You will be building capacity of local organisations, facilitating collaborations and ensuring that volunteering opportunities in East Renfrewshire are inclusive and accessible to disadvantage young people.
Our youth-led programme ‘Make it Happen’ offers young people (12-25 years old) opportunities to grow in confidence, find opportunities to participate that are meaningful to them and develop lasting connections within their community through the mix of 1:1 intensive support, group volunteering, and volunteering programmes and workshops, with a focus on creating local collaborations that tap into existing resources and services.
The programme is funded through the Young Start, a grants programme run by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Key Tasks:
- Lead on the development of meaningful youth-friendly volunteering opportunities for young people; provide guidance and support to organisations interested in creating youth volunteering opportunities.
- Build effective relationships and facilitate collaborations across a wide range of local and national organisations to support the development of supported and accessible volunteering opportunities
- Develop regular networking opportunities for youth services and workers
- Work closely with other Youth Leads to ensure meaningful involvement of young people in the development, design and delivery of programme activities and networking opportunities; Support and development of our ‘Make it Happen’ Youth Volunteering Team
Line Manager: Engagement Manager
Application notes
Download application pack at va-er.org.uk/join-our-team or call 0141 876 9555
Deadline for applications: 9 pm on Sunday, 1st June 2025
Shortlisting: 2nd June 2025
Interviews: 4th June 2025
Please get in touch with us if you want to talk about the role before applying.
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VANL Consortium Lead (East)
- Full time
- £28,080
- Hybrid: Blended working between home, VANL office and community venues in North Lanarkshire
- Closing 9th January 2026
VANL Consortium Lead (Covering the east sector- Airdrie, Coatbridge and The North)
The purpose of this role is to lead on three local networks made up of Community and Voluntary Sector organisations and statutory partners to support communities in meeting local needs through both collaboration and distribution of the Locality Activity Fund. These networks being known as local Consortia which operate across North Lanarkshire and support allocation of the Locality Activity Fund.
VANL Consortium Lead (West)
- Full time
- £28,080
- Hybrid: Blended working between home, VANL office and community venues in North Lanarkshire
- Closing 9th January 2026
VANL Consortium Lead (Covering the west sector- Motherwell, Bellshill, Wishaw, and Shotts)
The purpose of this role is to lead on three local networks made up of Community and Voluntary Sector organisations and statutory partners to support communities in meeting local needs through both collaboration and distribution of the Locality Activity Fund. These networks being known as local Consortia which operate across North Lanarkshire and support allocation of the Locality Activity Fund.
Consortium Administration Team Support
- Part time
- £24,479 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Blended working between home, VANL office and community venues in North Lanarkshire
- Closing 9th January 2026
Role Purpose and Background
Support VANL Head of Community Solutions and Consortium Leads with the administration, information management, and operational management of all six North Lanarkshire Local Consortia.
Strategic Support Officer
- Full time
- £31,540 – £34,139
- On site: Vernon Street, Saltcoats
- Closing 12th January 2026
TACT is looking for one exceptional and experienced individual to become a member of the team.
Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) across North Ayrshire are operating in an increasingly challenging environment, with rising demand, limited resources, and growing strategic responsibilities. Alongside this, a new community-led consortia programme is being established to reduce child poverty through coordinated, person-centred support. To help the sector respond collectively and effectively, the Strategic Support Officer will act as both a shared strategic resource and the central coordinating role within this partnership.
The postholder will strengthen strategic capacity across participating organisations, enable more efficient cross-organisation collaboration, coordinate shared initiatives, and ensure the third sector’s collective voice is clearly represented in local decision-making. Working directly with Chief Officers and frontline delivery leads, the postholder will help translate shared learning into stronger pathways, reduced duplication, and a more joined-up experience for the families and communities we serve.
About TACT:
The Ayrshire Community Trust (TACT) is a charity based in North Ayrshire that provides programmes and projects that make a difference to people’s lives by encouraging, supporting and promoting community action.
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