Do you love a challenge?

We have an amazing opportunity for a skilled youth worker to continue the ongoing success of our Youth Work delivery at Tiverton-Youth Centre. Tiverton youth clubs are a busy and dynamic environment. You will be working with an experienced team who have great connections with the local community and services.

About the job

Location: This is a county wide role - eight centres across the county. Some home working. Base will be dependent on the successful candidate.

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 37 Hours per week - including some evenings and a minimum of one Saturday per month

Positions available: One

Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 FTE

Deadline for application: Sunday 26th February 2023

Interview Date: Tuesday 7th March 2023 - (location TBC)

Job Ref: DYS218

If you have any questions or would like an informal chat about the role, please contact: Emily Hobson-Martin on 07764326406.

What is the role

We are looking for a thoughtful and proactive individual to join our small but passionate Social Action team at Space Youth Services to help support our vision of “Unlocking Potential with Youth People”. 

• Driving the delivery and development of our volunteer programme across our Devon wide youth centres and fundraising events, supporting young and adult Volunteers across a range of roles. This is an exciting and growing role within Space, and we welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds and experience levels, however experience of volunteering would be advantageous. You do not need to have a background in youth work to apply for this role

• This role will work closely with the Social Action Team, Director of Youth Work, Head of Fundraising and Marketing and the wider Space Team to support and embed volunteers across the organisation

• Recruitment, coordination, organisation and coaching of volunteers 

• Collaborating with all areas of the organisation, identifying volunteering opportunities and requirements

• Keeping clear and accurate volunteer records and systems

About You:  

• You are collaborative. You work well with groups and individuals from inside and outside the organisation to accomplish tasks. You work to include all relevant parties in tasks to ensure all factors are considered and every voice is heard

• You have administrative experience. You have a variety of general administrative and technical experience as well as specific experience of data sets and collation, management of systems, high level IT including presentation preparation, organisational policies and systems.

• You are a superb communicator. You can use a variety of methods of communication to keep groups and individuals informed and hear concerns. You are equally comfortable participating in online and in-person meetings.  You can prepare monitoring information on a regular basis, holding yourself and others to account.

• You have relevant experience. You have experience of volunteering and supporting others.

• You like variety. You have your own transport, and can visit volunteers in a wide variety of venues and communities.

• You are flexible. You are willing to work at times that suit volunteers, this will include evenings and some weekend work.

Space is continually striving to be an inclusive organisation. Equality, diversity and inclusion are threads that run through all our work, and should run through all our relationships with colleagues, partners and all those we work with.  We go beyond the approach described by the Equality Act 2010 and choose to take an anti-oppressive approach to our work and how we behave as an Organisation.

We encourage applications for this role from all backgrounds in respect of ethnicity, age, disability, gender, sexuality, religion and socio-economic background.

What we offer

• Annual leave: 5 weeks for the first 5 years then additional days depending on length of service (pro-rata’d for part-time roles)

• Additional 3 Statutory days given between Christmas and new year plus bank holidays

• Pension contributions starting at 6% rising to 8% in the third year

• Employee assistance programme 24/7

• Casual dress code 

• Flexible schedule

• Social occasions

• Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

• Enhanced sick pay

• Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat

• Chromebook and work mobile

• Value-driven culture

How to Apply

• Download and complete the supporting statement (below)

• Return your completed supporting statement, along with your CV to recruitment@spacepsm.org Or post to: 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 7EH

• Interviews may be conducted by phone / video / online - method to be advised and dependent on the individual and Covid restrictions in force at interview date - details will be given at offer of interview

• Unless specified when sending through your completed application, we do not normally acknowledge receipt of applications