Over the next 12 months we are looking to diversify our membership, and improve engagement with younger people, under-represented households, and in higher crime areas. We will do this with an iterative and non-prescriptive approach, and will increase our focus on community cohesion, tackling social isolation, increasing awareness of vulnerability and on helping people create stronger, safer and active neighbourhoods. We are seeking to appoint to a full time post of Head of Membership and Community Engagement to support the work of the CEO in developing and delivering the Neighbourhood Watch Strategic Plan to existing and new Neighbourhood Watch supporters, members and Associations.

New opportunity not to be missed! Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Enagement Team Adminstrator to join our Engagement team based in  Lambeth. In return, you will receive a competitive salary plus excellent benefits.

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.

Together with our partners, we support thousands of homeless young people each year.

The Engagement team is responsible for finding new and exciting ways to engage young people. We work by using our four pillars of engagement (Sport, Art and Culture, Technology and Food) to positively transform young people’s lives.  We create weekly engagement programmes through different mediums which are then delivered in partnership with inspiring partners.

What you’ll be doing…

• Ensure that all reporting within the team is managed effectively; administering a calendar of reporting required, disseminating communication reminders and collating reports
• Provide training and support to all Engagement Team members for the correct use of all internal platforms e.g. Talos, QlickView, ClickTravel, Ipos (including Lyreco ordering), Inform, Concur
• Effective goods ordering in line with correct budget lines.
• Be proactive in ensuring all office based supplies are available and useable
• Respond to all and any general enquires and manage all phone calls and queries.

What we’d be looking for from you…

• Excellent verbal, written, numerical and communications skills
• Experience of working as part of a team and engaging with others.
• Excellent computer literacy skills with an emphasis on Excel, Word, PowerPoint and CRM systems
• An understanding of some of the key issues facing Centrepoint’s Young People.
• Able to manage workload to meet a range of conflicting deadlines

What we offer in return...

In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days

- Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career

- Employer pension contributions of 4%

- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale

- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme

- An interest-free travel loan

We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint. We welcome applications from anyone with direct experience of being homeless or using young people's services.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Engagement Team Administrator, click ‘Apply’ now!

Closing Date: 12 November 2019, noon

Interview Date: 18 November 2019

Are you looking for an exciting challenge with a charity on a pedalling revolution?

Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, is aiming to inspire a million more people onto their bikes and needs an enthusiastic and engaging Cycling Development & Training Officer in London  to help us.

You’ll be responsible for delivering the Community Cycle Club programme and Cycling UK training courses across the area, working with community groups, managing key local relationships and robustly monitoring the impact of the programme. You will support a sustainable network and build capacity for cycling, with the development of volunteers and training of leaders a priority for success.

You will be a key local contact across the network of Community Cycle Clubs and stakeholders, enabling opportunities to cycle in an inclusive manner. This will work to increase levels of physical activity, encourage cycling as a mode of transport and present pathways to cycling as a sport.

This is a 12 month fixed term post with potential to extend subject to to funding.

Are you looking for an exciting challenge with a charity on a pedalling revolution?

Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, is aiming to inspire a million more people onto their bikes and needs an enthusiastic and engaging Cycling Development Officer in both West Yorkshire and Liverpool to help us.

You’ll be responsible for delivering the Big Bike Revival and Community Cycle Club programmes across the area, working with community groups, managing key local relationships and robustly monitoring the impact of the programme. You will support a sustainable network and build capacity for cycling, with the development of volunteers and training of leaders a priority for success.

You will be a key local contact across the network of Community Cycle Clubs and stakeholders, enabling opportunities to cycle in an inclusive manner. This will work to increase levels of physical activity, encourage cycling as a mode of transport and present pathways to cycling as a sport.

These two posts 1 x West Yorkshire and 1 x Liverpool are on a 12 month fixed term contract with the potential to extend subject to funding.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen in the Girls’ Rights and Youth Team at Plan International UK to cover the maternity leave of our Youth Engagement Officer.

Plan International UK is a global children’s charity. We work to give every child the same chance in life.

Our Girls’ Rights and Youth Team has a focus on bringing our global work for girls’ rights to the UK and also leads our global girls’ rights campaigning. Youth engagement and youth voices are at the heart of the work we do and the reason we do it. Our Youth Engagement work has huge breadth – from playing a vital role in internal governance to helping young people become passionate campaigners and wider advocates for girls’ rights.

As Youth Engagement Officer, you will make sure young people’s voices are included, considered and valued across all of Plan International UK’s work. You will support young people to be campaigners, feed their own opinions and experiences into our UK Girls’ Rights work and learn new skills.

We are looking for someone who has solid experience of working directly with young people in a participatory way, of designing and delivering workshops and training activities and of taking responsibility for residential events. You’ll also have hands-on experience of working within safeguarding processes.

You’ll have a passion for creative and innovative approaches to youth voice and campaigning and the ability to translate complicated campaign or policy ideas into digestible information. Using these skills, you will be responsible for the development, support and administration of our Youth Advisory Panel, encouraging panel members to speak at and engage with high level political events and to take on safeguarding responsibilities.

This role will involve weekend, evening and overnight work on a regular basis, for which time off in lieu will be provided.

As this role is covering a maternity leave, we expect it to be needed for 12 months.

The deadline for applications is 9:00am on 18 December 2019

Interviews will take place on 7 and 10 January 2020

Due to the nature of our work with children, we follow rigorous child protection policies and procedures in our recruitment process. As a result, some of our roles are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure by the Disclosure and Barring Service. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from joining us as an employee or volunteer; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.

Youth Development Officer
Birmingham, West Midlands 
£25,696 - £30,428 per annum

Are you passionate about creating opportunities for deaf young people, promoting independence and making a difference?

We are looking for a committed and motivated team player to join our busy Youth Development and Partnerships Team. The successful candidate will join a team of six, working to establish and implement various partnerships with external organisations to ensure independence and transition opportunities are increased for deaf young people in an empowering and sustainable way.

The post holder must have experience and a good understanding of partnership development and practice with experience of engagement and delivery to a variety of audiences such as professionals and deaf young people.

To apply for this role, you will have to complete an online application and specify how you meet the person specification criteria, as outlined in the job description. To do this, we suggest that you download the job description prior to starting your application (this can be found at the start of the application process).

Currently, the application process works best on desktop / laptop devices.

The closing date for applications is on Monday 6th January 2020 at 23.59.

We expect interviews to be held in Birmingham on Thursday 23rd January 2020.

Please note that this post will be based in our Birmingham office. We might consider London as an alternative location.

A disclosure check will be sought in relation to the successful applicant for this post. This will be shared with Human Resources and may also be shared with the Safeguarding Manager and the relevant management team. All applicants must also complete a self-disclosure form.

We strive to provide an accessible recruitment process. If a disability or long-term condition makes it difficult for you to complete our application form, please contact us to discuss alternative formats. If you require reasonable adjustments for taking part in the interview, please indicate this in response to the corresponding question in the application form. Additional information about the support we offer is on our jobs page.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young adults and expects staff and volunteers to share that commitment.

We are also committed to promoting work-life balance amongst our staff.

To apply for the role of Youth Development Officer, please apply via the button shown. 

This job is being posted by Webrecruit on behalf of National Deaf Children's Society. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Other organisations may call this role Youth Programme Officer, Partnership Engagement Officer, Engagement Officer, Youth Programme Co-ordinator, Engagement Programme Co-ordinator, or Youth Engagement Officer. 

CORC Youth Engagement Officer

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families supports distressed children and their families through innovative therapeutic practice and research, training and promoting awareness of mental health issues.

We are looking for a Youth Engagement Officer for the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC).  CORC is the UK’s leading membership organisation that collects and uses evidence to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. CORC has over sixty member organisations and an extensive Network spanning schools, voluntary and statutory service providers, local authorities, and professional bodies across the UK and beyond.

CORC is introducing this post to support us to strengthen our youth involvement.  We are committed to taking a more strategic, planned and consistent approach in this area, and the postholder will play a key role in developing and implementing new relationships, processes, and initiatives to achieve this. The postholder will be part of the CORC team and will work closely with participation colleagues in the Anna Freud Centre – as well as developing relationships with participation leads in our member organisations.

We are looking for a collaborative, proactive, motivated individual with experience of actively engaging and supporting young people to participate, collaborate and influence the development and creation of services, with a commitment to all that CORC stands for. You may have an NHS or mental health background, work in social care, a local authority or schools, or you may come from another field entirely.

Hours:

Part-time (14 to 21 hours per week)

Salary:

£25,000 to £35,000 FTE per annum, plus 6% contributory pension scheme

Contract duration

 1 year

We are offering the role as a fixed contract, part time. We will also consider secondments. The post-holder may work from our London office at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, The Kantor Centre of Excellence, 4-8 Rodney Street, London, N1 9JH or from our Northern Hub at Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5AN.   

Please specify your preferences in your job application.

The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Closing date for applications:  Midnight, Monday 6th January 2020

Notification of interview

Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than Tuesday 7th January 2020

Please note: due to volume of applications expected, we will be unable to notify unsuccessful candidates

Interviews

Interviews will be held on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th of January 2020

How to apply

We are unable to accept CVs

About you

You’ll be passionate about using research, evaluation and data to inform the way we work and advocate for change. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates who have experience of directly working with young people and who have strong quantitative analysis skills.

It will help to have a broad understanding of some or all of these key areas: children and young people and their engagement with music, equality diversity and inclusion, learning and participation, and the operating environment for charities and not-for-profits.

About the role

Working within the central hub of Youth Music’s operations team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and influencing how music-making is delivered to children and young people, ensuring that it is inclusive, accessible, high quality and relevant.

You’ll do this by contributing to both in-house and external research and evaluation projects. Ensuring that we learn from our own and others’ work and are able to communicate this learning to influence the work of other organisations. In particular, your quantitative analysis skills will help us to monitor how we’re doing against our key performance indicators.

About Youth Music

Youth Music funds music-making projects across England that help children and young people aged 0-25 to develop personally and socially as well as musically. We work particularly with those who don’t get to make music because of who they are, where they live, or what they’re going through.

Deadline for applications: 10am Monday 6 January 2020

Eden Brown is pleased to be working with one of the country's largest and best children's charities on their Supporter Giving & Engagement Officer vacancy.

This role sits in their Supporter Giving & Engagement team - a team of 14 great people that develops and delivers most of the large-scale communications with their supporters. The team is not just responsible for fundraising. For them, life time value includes volunteering, donating and campaigning - every way a supporter can engage - so you'll be working really closely with colleagues across the organisation to attract and engage supporters.

You'll work with, and support, the Supporter Giving and Engagement Manager to drive income and impact. Building on audience insight to develop supporter journeys and the creative marketing activity across a variety of channels. You'll bring new ideas, be results focused and ensure campaigns are delivered to budget and targets. In return, they offer an ambitious and supportive work environment with some great colleagues.

We are looking for someone with experience of working in a multi-disciplinary marketing environment, experience of end-to-end campaign management with good communication and creative skills.

If you would like to apply send your CV to Tony Williams at [email protected] or call Tony for more information on 020 3017 5014.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Art Against Knives are looking for a  Female Senior Youth Worker to support our IN OUR HANDS Programme across the Barnet Borough.

The IN OUR HANDS programme was created by a group of young people from Dollis Valley estate in Barnet in 2012. They suggested running a nail bar that would ‘put Dollis Valley estate on the map for something positive, not just negative things like stabbings’. 7 years later they’ve done just that, the programme has gone onto support over 500 young people.

The act of painting a young person’s nails allows us to build trusted relationships, enabling them to identify and share experiences, including abuse. We bring specialist support to them, within an environment that is accessible, comfortable and part of their everyday life; ensuring they receive the right support from the right people, at the right time.

We currently run 3 community nail/hair bars that are open weekly, providing a huge range of creative activity including masterclasses, showcase opportunities and Arts Award qualifications. As well as an action packed programme of pop-up activity in which we take the nail/har bar’s into community settings to engage with new young people and capture their voices through the co-production of a digital magazine. This role is key to this programme.

YOUR ROLE AS A SENIOR YOUTH WORKER:

Your role is two-fold, you will be responsible for;

1. Delivering high quality youth work to young people across the programme; work directly with young people during sessions, supporting their engagement and responding to their individual needs.
2. Delivering our programme of pop-up activities, coordinating activity and working with multiple partners to ensure safe and effective community engagement.

If you are interested in this role and would like to apply, please download an information pack from our website under the 'Get Involved- work for us' section.

This role is open to women applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2)e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. AAK values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 1.5 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals.

The Supporter Engagement Officer, community based in Northern Ireland informs and inspires people in their area about the work of Mary’s Meals in order to secure increased support and funding for the organization’s overseas school feeding programmes.

The Supporter Engagement Officer will have particular responsibility for our grassroots work within churches and faith groups, schools, universities and clubs prioritising the growth and nurturing of the volunteer network by building relationships with and coordinator of our extremely dedicated volunteer speakers.

In this exciting role you will have the opportunity to build on audience insight to develop supporter journeys and the creative marketing activity across a variety of channels for this innovative and inspiring leading childrens charity.We are looking for someone to bring new ideas, be results focused and ensure campaigns are delivered to budget and targets.

The Charity
Have been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. They run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help, and are there for them every step of the way. They run over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need support, and campaign to get laws and policies changed to make childrens lives happier and safer.

The Role
Contributing to the delivery of powerful and value generating multichannel campaigns across all stages of supporter life cycle including acquisition, welcome, retention and reengagement.
Working with the Supporter Giving and Engagement Manager to plan and deliver multichannel campaigns including direct mail, email, online, social, mobile/SMS and telephone that deliver against supporter strategies and LTV goals.
Ensure end-to-end delivery of direct marketing campaigns, including planning; briefing; copy and creative development; proofing; sign-off; print and production process; audience selection; data briefing and processing, results monitoring; KPI reporting & writing end of campaign reviews.
Ensure all campaign activities and materials are produced accurately and in compliance with relevant data protection, gift aid legislation and in line with best practice standards and processes.
Work with and brief a range of internal teams or external agencies to aid research, development and delivery of new campaigns, messages and supporter journeys.

The Candidate
Excellent project management skills that deliver to deadline, to budget, across multiple teams and achieve goals.
Strong communicator with excellent oral and written skills, attention to detail, with the ability to write, evaluate and proof read audience and channel-specific copy, including experience of copy writing to meet a brief.
Good numeracy and data analysis skills. Understanding of end-to-end data processes, segmentation and data analysis. Able to interpret large sets of data to spot trends & adjust
fundraising activity to account for insights.
Ability to bring together internal and external stakeholders to deliver projects to agreed objectives.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Do you want to promote a positive image of young people to the media and counter negative stereotypes?

Would you love to work for a charitable foundation that makes a real difference?

If so, you could become our new Communications and PR Officer. The Jack Petchey Foundation was set up in 1999 by Sir Jack Petchey to inspire and motivate young people and recognise their achievements. To date, the Foundation has invested over £118 million in young people across London and Essex.

This is an exciting time to join the Foundation, as we conduct PR for a range of programmes and events and carry out an ambitious three-year growth strategy.

About the role

This is a great opportunity to take your next step in Communications and PR and gain a wide variety of experience. You will help raise awareness of the Jack Petchey Foundation and its positive influence on hundreds of thousands of young people in London and Essex.

Our new Communications and PR Officer will aim to amplify all of the great things the Foundation does but also, more importantly, ensure PR and Communications is a vehicle to help deliver our mission of inspiring and motivating young people to become achievers and valuable members of society.

We want to be the voice of young people in London and Essex. We want to provide them with the tools, resources, contacts and services that empower them to do great things.

This is an exciting role for the right person who has the energy, creativity and ambition to develop and deliver fun, engaging and effective communications.

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button to complete and return an Application and Diversity Monitoring Form.

Closing date: 9am on 6th January 2020.

CVs will not be accepted. No agencies please.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation that stands up for children? Join us as High Value Engagement Executive and create high-quality, compelling donor communication materials to engage donors and partners.

In our Marketing, Fundraising and Communications department, we fight for children every single day. We inspire millions of people, from individuals to large corporates, to support our quest for change. We go the extra mile – and we don’t rest until the work is done.

As High Value Engagement Executive you will be responsible for creating inspiring and relevant content for high value audiences on agreed fundraising priorities. You will produce timely and appropriate donor-facing materials to support Partnerships and Philanthropy (P&P) fundraising asks, providing writing, proofing and editorial support to others in P&P in order to achieve consistency in the tone of high value communications. You will also source, share and signpost to relevant information and content on Save the Children’s activity for P&P. In addition you will:

• Signpost P&P to digital content and develop creative engagement products to help secure high value gifts
• Act as the first point of contact for requests from P&P for information on emergencies and cost examples
• Build and manage a library of the info-comms resources the team produces, which is shared and easily accessible to Fundraising and Marketing
• Develop close working relationships with the direct fundraising teams in P&P as well as with the programme delivery teams and info-comms teams across Save the Children.

To be successful you will have excellent written and oral communication skills, with a proven track record of producing high-quality written materials. You will have the ability to assess complex programme information and translate it into compelling communications for a lay audience, with a strong understanding of the charity sector, fundraising and global development issues. Additionally you will have:

• A strong attention to detail and accuracy when handling information
• Confident IT skills to enable the production of visually appealing and professional documents
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and manage relationships across departments
• Experience of communicating information to philanthropic and corporate donors (desirable)
• Experience of graphic design, digital comms and visually creative / digital products (desirable).

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

To apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 15th December 2019