Top job! Operations Manager
- Full time
- £37,994 – £44,699
- Remote: West/Central Scotland
- Closing 22nd September 2024
- Advertised from 30th August 2024
- Salary depending on experience (Grade I).
Role
We help young people to build life-long belief in themselves, supporting them to take on their own challenges, follow their own passions and discover talents they never knew they had. Because when you prove yourself that you’re ready for anything nothing can hold you back.
Do you want to be part of that?
The Operations Manager is responsible for managing a team of geographically dispersed Operations Officers to support the operational delivery and development of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) across Scotland.
Operations Officers directly support a variety of Licensed Organisations (LOs) comprising mainly of schools, but they also work with other organisations including colleges, local authorities, charities, pupil referral units, youth groups and young offender institutions. The Operations Manager role involves managing, coaching, and supporting Operations Officers to undertake their role and building strong partnerships to increase DofE’s engagement across communities in Scotland.
As a DofE country team, our focus is on building capacity within our licensed organisations to support more young people to engage with DofE and on identifying and stewarding strong partnerships within local communities to increase engagement with DofE, particularly within those communities who face barriers to participation. Together with the Scotland Director, two further Operations Managers and a Business Support Manager, the Operations Manager role involves being an active and engaged member of the Scotland management team, developing, and delivering the Scotland business plan to meet national strategic goals.
The role will be field-based and when not attending meetings, employees will work from home. You will need to have an appropriate home office set up and live within Scotland.
What we are looking for:
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, proactive, and effective team player with extensive people management experience to join the Scotland team. You will report to the Scotland Director and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of your Operations team and delivery of the DofE Scotland business plan. The role will also involve contributing to national working groups to support our charity wide strategic goals.
You will be a passionate advocate for the work of the DofE and be driven to realise the charity’s strategic ambition to give more than one million young people the chance to participate in our life-changing programmes, over the next five years.
Application notes
Visit our website to find out more about the role and to apply.
As part of the application process, you will be expected to complete a statement of suitability and answer competency-based questions relevant to the role to help us assess your application.
We offer excellent staff benefits including a generous pension contribution, flexible working and an employee assistance programme.
Closing Date: Sunday 22nd September at Midnight
Interview: Wednesday 2nd October -in person in Glasgow [HA1] (interviews will involve a 40-minute interview and a 20 minute panel interview)
If required a 2nd interview will take place: w/c 7th October
The DofE are commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All successful applicants will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. (e.g. DBS/PVG or similar), including years references covering any gaps of employment/education, confirm eligibility to work in the UK and complete a health check.
If you would like to access the application form in a different format or if would like any assistance that might help improve your experience while completing the application, please contact us by email recruitment@dofe.org
Diversity, equality & inclusion
The DofE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive staff team and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We recruit, develop, promote and value people and the DofE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. In order to meet the changing needs and aspirations of the most diverse generation of young adults ever, our staff need a range of perspectives, skills, and lived experience.
While we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds to join our passionate and friendly team, at present people of colour, disabled people, and people under 25 are not as well represented as we would like. As such we particularly encourage applicants from these backgrounds.
Awards Project Worker
- Part time
- £26,788 – £30,751 pro-rata
- On site: Dunford House, 7 Boroughloch, Edinburgh, EH8 9NL
- Closing 19th September 2024
LAYC is recruiting a Project Worker to support the delivery of accredited learning and youth awards, with the network of community-based youth and children’s Member Groups within Edinburgh and the Lothians.
The post will be based at LAYC and will have a Lothian wide remit.
The post will be fixed for an initial period of 2 years at 18 hours per week on a salary scale of £26,788 - £30,751 pro rata, plus access to a 7% employers contribution pension.
Founded in 2000, Includem has grown and developed a wide range of services and projects for children, young people and families across Scotland. Initially focussed on bridging the gap between social care and criminal justice, we have expanded our offering of specialist support not just for young people in conflict with the law but for families as well.
We work with children and young people in care, and their caregivers, as well as supporting those facing challenges with education, their mental health or transitioning to adulthood. Regardless of who we are supporting, our commitment to relationship-based, 24/7 support, remains unchanged.
Our ambition is to continue to innovate, grow and provide the dedicated support that is needed by so many.
This is where you come in! Working for Includem means getting the chance to use your talents to the fullest, doing work that makes a real difference to the lives of many, in an environment where your contributions get noticed. Want to join us?
We have 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.
Development Worker (Youth Work and Training)
- Full time
- £30,355 – £35,184
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 16th September 2024
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 at an exciting stage in our organisational development with a growing membership of youth groups and plans in place for significant growth in our support for youth work, youth groups and young people.
We have identified the need for a development worker role which will suit an experienced youth worker who is passionate about sharing their experience of working with young people with other youth workers and volunteers. If this is you, then come and join our youth work training team and help us to upskill youth workers and volunteers across Scotland.
The base for this post is Youth Scotland office in Edinburgh but with flexible working arrangements. We deliver using combination of face to face and digital delivery.
It is an exciting time at the DRC Youth Project! Our charity is growing, and we are looking to strengthen our team by welcoming a new motivated group worker onto our team of staff.
- Are you motivated and passionate about working together with young people?
- Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude?
- Can you inspire young people to make positive changes in their lives?
- Are you excited about working for a modern charity with great opportunities for career progression?
- Do you have a UK Driver’s License?
The DRC Youth Project is a modern youth service which offers safe spaces and supports young people. The new group worker will work together with groups of young people across DRC personal development initiatives. The aim of each group is to provide support, advice and guidance on employment, training and career and personal development for the young people. In doing this, the new group worker will liaise with relevant bodies as directed with a key focus on prevention, employability and in some cases, recovery. At the DRC, young people are at the heart of everything we do, and our aim is that every young person we work with is empowered to live their life to its fullest potential.
The group worker’s core function is to offer a variety of information and support that will help fulfil the personal development requirements of each young person. The group worker will equip the young people to meet life challenges and in particular allow them to access employment and a career path within their own aspirations and capabilities. To achieve this, the post holder will continually engage with young people utilising various DRC Youth Project resources and key specialist partners. The post holder will also support the DRC management team in the day to day running of the project’s various youth provisions.
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