Join our award-winning Youth Empowerment team at the pioneering Cambridge House charity. 

The Youth Empowerment Coordinator will provide long-term, holistic support to at-risk 16-21-year olds living in Southwark and surrounding boroughs.

Through the delivery of weekly group workshops, personal mentoring, liaising and referring to specialist services, providing employment and life skills support, and facilitating trips and events, the Youth Empowerment Coordinator will help young people to find out what they want in life, overcome barriers, and support them to achieve their goals.

You will need to be confident working one-to-one with young people as well as delivering group workshops and activities over a range of topics. Using your initiative, you will be able to engage participants, adapt to their individual support needs and nurture their development, health and wellbeing.

Strong organisational skills are required in this multifaceted role and the post-holder must be reliable and patient, with the ability to build trust and establish positive working relationships.

Working as part of a newly expanding team, your contribution will be pivotal to the ongoing evaluation and development of the project.

Our ideal candidate will have previous relevant experience (in a paid or voluntary capacity) and:

• Be positive, enthusiastic and friendly
• Be self-motivated
• Share our commitment to our vision of a society without poverty where all people are valued, treated equally and lead fulfilling and productive lives

As an organisation we are particularly keen to ensure that our staff reflect the diverse nature of the community in which we work.

We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from disabled people, the LGBTQ+ communities and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

We are a Disability Confident employer and will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by person specification.

To apply, email your CV, cover letter, and diversity monitoring form (see Recruitment Pack attached)

We are looking for a passionate and motivated people to join our Take a Break team working with children with a learning disability and/or autism up to the age of 19. 

Take a Break (TAB) offers school holiday camps as well as individual and small group activities throughout the year. TAB is the children and young people’s operation of Barnet Mencap’s Short Breaks service 

We are recruiting Support Workers for after school, weekends and school holidays supporting children throughout the Borough of Barnet in their homes and out in the community.

We support a diverse range of children and young people and we are looking for caring and dynamic individuals with a range of experience and a passion for working with children. 

The main objective for the Take A Break service is to enable parents by providing them with respite and for children to enjoy short breaks with their Support Workers. 

Barnet Mencap is committed to equal opportunities and the safeguarding of children and adults at risk. 

CHHAT' Project Worker

Permanent Contract until 31st March 2021

37 hours per week

£26,329 per annum

Based in Chelmsford covering Essex

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be to help us maintain and develop innovative practice to support our work in our services within the Essex area.

We wish to recruit a Project Worker to join the Community Hidden Harm Awareness Team (CHHAT) to deliver the work of The Children's Society to Young Carers who are/have been affected by parental substance misuse. This will be delivered through a range of interventions; to reduce isolation, improve emotional well-being, and raise awareness of issues they face by delivering specialist support, advice and group work. The programme also delivers a series of peer support groups and community schemes that will be jointly led by Volunteer Mentors.

You will need substantial experience in working with children and young people either in a paid or unpaid capacity and a sound understanding of substance misuse, mental health, offending behaviour (inc domestic violence) and its impact on vulnerable young people and their families.

You will have, or be working towards a relevant professional qualification e.g. a Degree/Diploma in counselling, social care or related NVQ.

You will also have experience of facilitating training or group work programmes.

When completing your supporting statement, we would like you to demonstrate your experience, transferrable skills (outlined in the attainments section of the job description) and give examples of how you meet the criteria.

As well as a strong commitment to your development, we offer a generous holiday entitlement, a contributory stakeholder pension, childcare vouchers and flexible working.

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 13th July 2020.

Interviews will be held on the 28th & 29th July 2020 via Microsoft Teams.

All recruitment documents are available in alternative formats. Charity Registration No. 221124

YMCA DOWNSLINK GROUP

 
YMCA WiSE (What is Sexual Exploitation) Project Worker 
Working across West Surrey
Fixed Term until 31st March 2021 with anticipated extension
37 Hours per week
£27,140 per annum

YMCA DownsLink Group’s WiSE Project is an innovative, award winning project working with children and young people experiencing or at risk of sexual exploitation; as well raising awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation and other forms of Child Criminal Exploitation.

We are looking for a Project Worker who is experienced in supporting vulnerable children and young people who may have experienced abuse or trauma, to join our successful team in Surrey which is funded by Surrey PCC. We anticipate the role to be further extended.

The Project Worker will hold a caseload of children and young people who have been identified as being at significant risk of, or victims of sexual exploitation, with the possibility of some cases being victims of criminal exploitation as the project evolves.  You will undertake one-to-one work to increase their understanding of sexual and criminal exploitation and develop their knowledge and skills to enable them to have safe, healthy relationships. It is essential that applicants can evidence relevant experience.

The project worker will work collaboratively with other professionals to support interventions which keep children and young people safe, disrupt the activity of perpetrators and where possible, lead to prosecutions.

The successful applicant will be co-located with the Surrey Police Exploitation Team in Guildford Police Station, but with opportunities to work from Guildford YMCA or from home. The role involves significant time lone working whilst supporting children and young people in the South West and North West quadrants of Surrey, with travel across Surrey and further afield as required.

Line management and case support will be provided by YMCA DLG.  YMCA WiSE staff receive regular 1-to-1 clinical supervision and group Reflective Practice Supervision.

This role will involve frequent travel and it is essential you hold a current driving licence and have access to your own car.

This is challenging yet rewarding work and requires an absolute commitment of the staff.

The position comes with excellent benefits, including 27 days annual leave per annum (plus bank holidays), a company sick pay scheme, a life assurance policy of 2x your annual salary, a health and wellbeing cash plan, and a cycle to work scheme. Please download a job pack for more information about other benefits offered.

If after reading the job profile you have questions about the role, please contact Charlotte Amor, WiSE Project Manager (contact details on the job vacancy on our webpage).

As part of our Safer Recruitment guidelines, we only accept applications completed on our application form. Due to Covid-19, we are not accepting paper copies of forms and are currently only accepting application forms submitted by email.

YMCA DownsLink Group welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and promote inclusion, which we demonstrate through our activities, as well as in our policies and working practices. Reinforced by our culture and values, we seek to create an inspiring and inclusive place to work.

YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.

Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). In addition the successful applicant for this role is also required to clear Police vetting. 

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 21st July 2020 at 9am

Interview date: 28th and 29th July 2020

Please note that we do not accept CVs.

To apply, please download an Application Pack and an Application Form from YMCA DownsLink Group's website.

At Depaul UK we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Reconnect Worker to come and join our team in London. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £26,399 pa pro rata + pension & other benefits.

Depaul UK delivers a range of support and housing services around the UK for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We provide services that prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training & volunteering. We're dedicated to putting our values into action to achieve a society where everyone has a place to call home and a stake in their community.

In return as our Reconnect Worker, we can offer you:

- A friendly, flexible and values-led organisation

- Competitive salary

- 26 days of annual holiday, plus bank holidays

- Contributory pension scheme

- Life assurance

The Reconnect Worker role:

We are currently recruiting for Reconnect Worker to support us with our exciting new project at YHA Euston.

Working with the support and guidance of your manager, you will be responsible for setting up and running our Reconnect service for clients accommodated within this new service.

You will work collaboratively with all Depaul colleagues and services across the region, as well as with external agencies, to build and maintain a caseload of clients experiencing family difficulties and at risk of homelessness.

What makes this role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills required’

- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model

- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner

- Access to a total rewards package including a health plan and generous pension contributions

What will ideally support your success in the Reconnect Worker role?

- Significant experience working with young people and families in crisis

- Experience of working independently and managing own caseload

- Experience of carrying out risk and needs assessments and support planning with clients

- Ability to develop strong, collaborative and productive relationships with colleagues and key external agencies

- High level understanding of professional boundaries and ability to maintain impartiality

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Reconnect Worker then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing date: We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so encourage you to apply via our website as soon as possible. Once we have received sufficient applications we will close the vacancy. Final deadline is Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 23:59

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

YMCA DOWNSLINK GROUP

Project Worker – Horsham 

Permanent Contract

37.5 Hours per week

£22,305 per annum

Want to be part of something amazing?  We are looking for passionate and committed people to join us.

As Project Worker you will take the lead on housing and support work alongside the Project Team to ensure that the requirements of the service specification are met: 

• To reduce and prevent rough sleeping 

• To promote and improve health and wellbeing 

• To minimise admissions to institutions such as hospitals, prison or residential care

• To reduce repeat homelessness.

You will work as part of a team including a Project Manager, a Deputy Project Manager, Project Workers, Project Assistants and Night Support workers to ensure we:

• use Psychologically Informed Environment practices, Trauma Informed Approach and restorative practice

• enable residents to articulate and achieve their ambitions and aspirations

• support residents to acquire the skills they need to lead independent and fulfilling lives

• identify, map and encourage the growth of each residents’ assets, strengths and talents.

The position comes with excellent benefits, including 27 days annual leave per annum (plus bank holidays), a company sick pay scheme, a life assurance policy of 2x your annual salary, a health and wellbeing cash plan, and a cycle to work scheme. Please download a job pack for more information about other benefits offered.

If you are an applicant interested in this post and would like an informal discussion having read the job pack, please contact Jake Rawlings (contact details on the job vacancy on our webpage). We will not respond to agencies. 

As part of our Safer Recruitment guidelines, we only accept applications completed on our application form. Due to Covid-19, we are not accepting paper copies of forms and are currently only accepting application forms submitted by email.

YMCA DownsLink Group welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and promote inclusion, which we demonstrate through our activities, as well as in our policies and working practices. Reinforced by our culture and values, we seek to create an inspiring and inclusive place to work.

YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.

Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). 

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 28th July 2020 at 9am

Interview date: W/C 3rd August 2020

Please note that we do not accept CVs.

To apply, please download an Application Pack and an Application Form from YMCA DownsLink Group's website.

Dads' Worker - Young Parents Project
Home based during COVID-19 (then field based, covering sites across East Cornwall)

About Us

We are WILD, the largest specialist young parents’ charity in the UK. We provide a range of services and support across Cornwall to help young parent families have the best possible future. Over the last 26 years, we have helped over 13,000 mums, dads and children learn new skills, form new friendships and achieve their goals.

We want young parents and their children to be healthy, happy and safe, with better life chances and aspirations.

We are currently looking for a Dads' Worker to join our team on a fixed-term contract until February 2022, working 37 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £23,580 per annum
- Generous holiday allowance
- Friendly and welcoming work environment

If you have experience of outreach, casework and advocacy practices and working with families, this is an amazing opportunity to make a positive, lasting difference to young families across the county.

You will have the chance to work directly with young parents, build their confidence and give them the tools they need to live happy, healthy lives.

Our organisation is built on the values of respect, equality, integrity, kindness and resourcefulness. We work together to overcome challenges and are passionate about helping young families to have the best start in life. If you think you would thrive as part of our dedicated team, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Dads' Worker, you will deliver a range of activities to help young dads develop new skills, improve their wellbeing and build positive relationships.

Working with families across East Cornwall, you’ll deliver a range of individual and group activities, such as outdoor and sports sessions, practical workshops, college taster workshops, mindfulness and music sessions.

Additionally, you will:

- Work with dads and families through outreach, casework and advocacy
- Support dads to develop positive parenting, intimate, family and community relationships
- Provide advocacy and support with social work processes
- Work with our partners to deliver sessions
- Deliver multi-agency training

About You

To join us as a Dads' Worker, you will need:

- Experience gained in a similar role, working with families
- Previous experience of working through outreach, casework and advocacy
- Experience of developing and delivering group work
- Strong time-management skills

Other organisations may call this role Outreach Worker, Family Caseworker, Young Families Support Worker, Support Worker, Community Outreach Worker, Family Support Worker, Young Families Caseworker, or Young Families Advocate.

Webrecruit and WILD are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Dads’ Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Social Prescriber Link Worker

Full-time 37 hours per week

Salary £24,799 - £26,317

Fixed-term contract until September 2021

About Crawley Community Action

Crawley Community Action is a charity which enables and supports volunteers, volunteer groups and charities in and around Crawley. We advocate for the voluntary and community sector with local government and other statutory authorities.  We’ve been supporting Crawley’s community and voluntary sector for 60 years – Crawley Community Action is our new name, demonstrating our commitment to Crawley’s people and communities.

We run Social Prescribing and Befriending services that support hundreds of people a year.  Following a successful pilot in 2016/17, the Crawley and Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group commissioned us to develop and expand ‘Prescription Plus’ across Crawley.  We are now working with the support of the West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group who extended since then and we are now planning towards September 2021.

Following the COVID-19 emergency response, we are resuming our recruitment of a new team. A person centred, collaborative and compassionate approach is at the heart of what we do and we are looking for someone with the right skills and attitude to support clients and manage volunteers in both a clinical setting and in people’s own homes, whilst also working as part of a Borough-wide team of Social Prescriber Link Workers based in our town centre Crawley office.

Reporting to the Social Prescribing Manager, you will provide a frontline social prescribing service, assessing a person’s need and helping them access appropriate groups and services. An experienced support worker, you will have an ability to build instant rapport with clients alongside a pragmatic and proactive attitude that enables people to achieve the goals that matter to them.

This is a terrific opportunity to build the social prescribing team of an organisation that is delivering community and volunteer support in Crawley. Our recent rebrand has not only given us a fresh new look, but has also helped us rationalise our aims, align our services and further exemplify our values.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experience.

Due to the nature of this role, it is essential that the post-holder has a full, clean driving licence and access to a fully insured vehicle

Closing date for applications:  12 noon, Friday 24 July 2020

Interviews: Thursday 30 July 2020

Are you passionate about supporting young people into independence? Do you have the energy, aptitude and personal qualities which will encourage and coach our residents into developing life skills and support them to manage living independently? Then read on.

SHP (Single Homeless Project) is one of London’s leading homelessness prevention charities and a dynamic and growing organisation changing 8,000 lives every year across London - from supporting people in crisis, to helping them take the final steps towards independence and employment.

We currently have really exciting opportunities for you to join our Young People's Services located in Lewisham, Greenwich, Leytonstone and Islington.  Working within a supported accommodation setting, you will provide a safe and nurturing environment for young people.As a Project/Support worker your responsibilities will also involve you developing, supporting and motivating the young people we house.

We run services that are creative, responsive and that provide a foundation which empowers our young people to achieve their aspirations and make positive and sustainable life changes. You will be crucial to making that happen.

So if you think you have what it takes, especially if you have experience of working with young people in a YOS or Children's Residential Services, then we would love to hear from you. 

This role is shift based and will require some weekend work & bank holidays. 

Closing date for applications:  30th July 2020 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held on: 6th, 7th & 10th August 2020

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant. 

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: SHP will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

SHP is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and IIP accredited.  In the London Homelessness Awards 2019 one of our Projects was commended for their work.

Contract: Fixed Term (Until Autumn 2023), Part Time

Coram, the UK’s oldest children’s charity, is launching a major new heritage programme, Voices Through Time: the story of care, and needs an enthusiastic, skilled team to drive it forward. Coram’s archive is extensive, fascinating and sadly, because of its age, deteriorating. Recognising this, and the archive’s importance to the nation, the National Lottery Heritage Fund has made a four-year grant to enable us to

• digitise and transcribe a major portion of the archive;
• promote our heritage content online;
• match creative partners with care-experienced and looked-after young people in a series of arts projects;
• develop a suite of resources based on these activities, to reach out to others; and
• challenge the misconceptions of care by showcasing young people’s talents and ambitions.

We are now looking to build a team to deliver this project and are looking for individuals who are passionate about young people’s progression as well as, of course, heritage and history.

About the role

The Youth Engagement Coordinator will recruit and support young people who have experience of the care system, supporting them throughout their involvement in the programme. Experience and understanding of working with looked-after young people is essential, as is first-rate communication (at all levels), flexibility and a bright creative flare.

The post holder will report to the Programme Manager – The Story Centre. The role will involve close liaison with the Archivist and other partners to ensure a valuable and meaningful experience for those involved.

To apply for this role, please click on the apply button to complete the application.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing date: 9am, Thursday 6th August 2020

Interview date: Friday 14th August 2020

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Registered Charity No. 312278.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it. The research and youth understanding team are responsible for commissioning and producing research to inform the YEF’s understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and to help us better understand the lives of young people vulnerable to youth violence, and what this means for the YEF’s work.

Task Description

We’re looking for passionate researchers who are committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to support the commissioning and delivery of a programme of qualitative and quantitative research. This research will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers. It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

We are appointing two research officers, one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s broad programme of research, and one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s work to better understand young people who are vulnerable to violent crime.

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of team, we want two people who can:

• Assist in commissioning and producing research to help us better understand what works to reduce violent youth crime.

• Engage with and understand the experiences and needs of people affected by violent youth crime, including young people and their families, across England and Wales.

• Help manage the YEF’s comprehensive programme of research and youth understanding activity.

• Help track and maintain relationships with academics, government analysts, researchers and other experts producing work that is relevant to the YEF.

• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work, including its thematic and place-based grant-making, behaviour change and policy work.

• Help design the very best ways for us to do our research.

• Contribute to a range of published work, including research reports, briefings and regular blog posts, looking at new forms of communicating and visualisation of complex information for a wide range of audiences.

• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and in delivering our broader research programme.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with quantitative and/or qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods. You can provide examples of how you have practically used these skills.

• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.

• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self-motivated and can work independently.

• You are a highly effective project manager. You are effective at managing projects from beginning to end, whether they are delivered internally or externally.

• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people, including young people.
   

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values
   

You must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, and the ability to both deploy them and critically appraise their use.
• Excellent communicator: You can combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible way to non-experts.
• Stakeholder engagement: You are comfortable seeking the views of young people and other stakeholders to help gather experiential insights for our work. This could include facilitating sessions with them.
• Project management: You are comfortable seeing projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• Job requirements
• An enhanced DBS check will be required for both roles but a criminal record is not a block on performing this role

You might have these sorts of qualifications/knowledge/skills/experience:

A post-graduate qualification. In a relevant field such as criminology, social policy, youth work, international development or any other relevant field with a significant research methods component

• For the General Research Officer role: Conducting reviews: Experience conducting or contributing to rapid evidence reviews and/or systematic reviews.  
• For the Youth Understanding Research Officer role: Youth work: Experience working with young people, either as a youth worker or in similar child/young person-facing roles.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, by midnight, 19 July 2020

You will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27 July 2020.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3 August 2020.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust is the leading conservation organisation in Suffolk, committed to achieving the best outcomes for biodiversity on its reserves.

At Trimley Marshes, you will be working on a truly dynamic reserve on the Orwell estuary. It is currently one of the county’s best performing breeding wader sites, and also supports spectacular numbers of overwintering wildfowl each year.

The South East Suffolk and Trimley Warden is a key member of South East Suffolk team and will support the Sites Manager to achieve the successful delivery of conservation management at Trimley Marshes, the wider Trimley Estate, Levington Lagoon and other reserves in South East Suffolk.

You will be committed to recruit, develop and lead a team of volunteers in addition to regular internships to achieve excellent conservation management in accordance with the Trust’s conservation objectives.

You will ensure accessibility and a welcoming atmosphere at all our reserves. Your friendly and engaging manner will help ensure all reserve visitors have a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.

You will be an ambassador for Suffolk Wildlife Trust, seeking opportunities to raise awareness of the Trust’s work across all your day-to-day activities.

The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded Oxfordshire Youth funding for three years to continue Oxfordshire Youth’s core work of supporting young people in communities. The Development Coordinator will be responsible for connecting, equipping and inspiring good youth work practice across the county. Working closely with the Partnerships Manager, Youth Participation Coordinator and other members of Oxfordshire Youth staff.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. We believe it is vital to intervene early in children’s lives to tackle the root causes of crime and violence, and to stem this worrying trend.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the best ways to prevent youth violence, funding promising initiatives and working to scale them up.

Some of the most successful work to reduce violent crime has been when local partners work together, share information and coordinate action. We want to establish the very best approaches to doing this, show clearly why they work and then support them being copied elsewhere. We call this our place-based work.

Key Responsibilities
 

You will lead our place-based work, making sure we do everything possible to find and spread the best ways to help local bodies to work together, sharing information and working in a coordinated way to make change happen. We are excited by the possibilities here, but realistic about the challenges and complexities involved.  You will make sure we navigate these challenges, finding the best ways that local partnerships can succeed.

To do this you will:

• Finalise our place-based strategy and put it into action. This means making sure that we have a ready-to-go plan for finding the most effective ways of getting local bodies to share information and coordinate activity so that youth violence falls.

• Build and nurture strong partnerships in places across England and Wales that are ready to share information and work together to reduce crime.
   
• Find the best way to ensure that partners get the help and support that they need to make our work a success. This could be direct support from you, the wider YEF team / our partners, or by bringing in external help.

• Once we know more about what works in place-based crime reduction, help local partnerships across England and Wales know what works and learn about how to make it happen. 

• Ensure that we learn what works really effectively. Working closely with our Knowledge and Evaluation teams you will make sure we learn what, why, how and where things work (and don’t work).

• As a senior staff member, you will also:
  • Help build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Help to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience. You have a good understanding of how the youth sector, public sector and schools operate.

• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and an 11 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
   
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You are a great and supportive team player.

• You believe evidence and research have an important role to play in improving local practice. You are passionate about making sure local planning and change is informed by the best available evidence.

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

• You make things happen. You have experience of getting to the heart of a strategy and turning it into operational plans. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You know attention to detail, clarity of purpose and strong project management matter.  

You must have this sort of experience:

You have…

• Built Partnerships:  You have significant experience in building strategic, long lasting partnerships. You can show how these have been effective in delivering impact for children and local communities.

• Developed and Delivered Strategy:  You have significant experience of developing strategies. You can then translate them into great ideas and actions.

• Managed complex projects:  You have significant experience of managing projects with a diverse range of stakeholders. 

• Managed senior stakeholders: You have experience of working with local leaders, youth practitioners and/or commissioners on strategy development or programme design.

You might have this sort of experience

It’s not necessary but it would be an extra bonus if you have…

• Experience of turning evidence into credible messages, tools and advice relevant to local practice.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, please go through  this link by midnight, 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3rd August.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.