Do you want to help us unlock potential with young people and their communities?

Do you love a challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Youth Work Manager (Trainee dependent on experience) to work alongside youth workers from our charity to access community spaces where young people spend their time.

About the job

Location: North Devon (Based at Bideford or Barnstaple)

Employment type: Fixed Term Contract for 2 years

Hours of work: 37 hours per week (3 evenings and occasional weekend work)

Positions available: 1

Salary: AY 1-18 to 19 - unqualified (£33,946 - £34,745); or AY 1-18 - 21 - qualified (£33,946 - £36,447) - dependant on experience

Deadline for application: Sunday 28th July 2024

Interview Date: 13th August 2024

Job Ref: DYS278

 SPACE  is an ambitious and innovative charity, driven by our values and seeking to support even more young people by developing current and new services.  Our employees strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others. We value everyone's contribution and create safe spaces for exploration and growth.

We are seeking a youth work manager to support our North Devon Team. We have the opportunity to either recruit an experienced youth work manager, a youth work practitioner looking to step into management or a manager of services for young people who want to transfer their skills into the youth work field. 

The post holder will be supported by a senior youth work manager and dependent on experience, a bespoke internal and external training package will be provided.

If you are a great communicator who likes a challenge, enjoys working with teenagers and is committed to supporting others, then this could be an amazing opportunity for you. The post is for two years in the first instance. There is the potential for the post to become permanent in the future.

You must be passionate about providing young people with somewhere to go, someone to talk to and something to do. We have two youth centres to manage in North Devon (Bideford and Barnstaple) and outreach to other communities as and when the need arises.

This is a vibrant job that will suit those who like variety, can multitask daily and work the hours and places where young people and their youth workers need their manager to be. The post includes working on average 3 evenings a week and some weekends. You will require your own transport in order to meet the requirements of the post.

Although you will be well supported, you must be organised, self driven, resourceful, solution focused, collaborative, empathetic and caring.

What is the role

• Leading Youth Work Teams

• Managing People

• Co-designing new proposals and opportunities for and with young people

• Working with partners and stakeholders

• Report writing and presentation 

• Helping young people to have their voices heard and put their ideas into action

• Curriculum planning and evaluation

• Building and Resource Management - Health and Safety

About You:  

• Confident community development worker with youth work skills

• Leadership and confidence

• Passion for supporting and advocating for the rights of young people

• Creativity and solution focused thinking

• Respectful with excellent empathy and kindness

• Ability to multitask, set priorities and reachout when you need help and support

• High commitment to making a difference

• A reflective practitioner 

• Space is an inclusive and learning organisation. Our employees should strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others 

• Own means of transport to undertake the duties of the role is required

As part of our ambitions to improve equality and diversity, we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under any of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act (2010), which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

 What We Offer

• Annual leave: 6 weeks

• 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 

• Social occasions

• Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

• Enhanced sick pay

• Chromebook and work mobile 

• Value-driven culture