Location: Edinburgh - minimum 3 days per week on site and will also require some travel to visit Delivery Partners
Assessment Centre: 7th of May
Are you ready to join our organisation and step into a vibrant role where you ll build and nurture essential partnerships to help us engage with young people to build our future workforce and support our vision of ending youth unemployment?
You ll take the lead in welcoming, training, and expertly managing a group of delivery partners and volunteers, ensuring every programme is delivered with energy, purpose, and quality. Your mission will be to ensure our young people have an exceptional experience and achieve those positive outcomes that change lives. You ll also stay engaged and connected with our work on the ground, travelling across your local area to support programme delivery, deliver enrichment sessions, and visit delivery partner.
You ll work closely with existing partners while also seeking out and establishing new partnerships, helping us broaden our reach and bring fresh, inspiring opportunities into our programmes. You ll play a central role in driving our community mentoring programme, supporting mentors and mentees, ensuring a structured, safe, and positive experience, and helping young people benefit long-term from guidance and support.
Our delivery partners and volunteers will rely on you for access to training, resources, qualifications, and guidance in adhering to our top-notch quality standards. You ll also be our compliance hero, making sure everyone is up to speed with the policies and processes that keep things running smoothly. You ll be adaptable, resilient and adept at problem solving, ready to tackle any minor setbacks that come along with coordinating such a multi-faceted programme.
Your attention to detail and passion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion will shine through as you accurately and efficiently record data collected from young people, volunteers, or partners. It is essential that each step of their journey is accurately documented in our systems and aligns with the requirements of our funding contracts, which are at the forefront of championing EDI. Your sheer enthusiasm, commitment and advocacy for our most vulnerable young people will ignite transformative action, sparking real change as we put those local plans into play and excel in achieving our EDI goals.
Do you have the creativity to facilitate best-practice sharing, energise networking sessions, and and throw sensational celebration s? Are you ready to create, design and directly deliver Education enrichment sessions to Young People aged 11 to 18 then this is your place to be. You will have the autonomy to design sessions based off the future employability sectors as well as facilitate skills development sessions with pupils.
Having a background in education could be an advantage in this role, whether you're familiar with the intricacies of the secondary education system or you've walked in the shoes of a teaching role before. If not, we d still love to hear from you as you will receive wrap-around support and upskilling opportunities from the moment you step into the role.
If you re a strong communicator with sharp problem-solving skills and and comfortable directly delivering to Young People at school age, you could be just the person we re looking for.
Expect the unexpected and embrace it. Come and be a part of our mission!
What happens next?
Please submit a CV, and Cover Letter that includes your experience, transferrable skills and motivation to work for The King's Trust! The Team will be in touch about the next steps shortly after the closing date.
Why do we need Youth Development Leads?
Last year, we helped more than 40,000 Young People, with every three in four moving into a positive outcome for either work, education or training. Youth Development Leads play a crucial role in supporting young people, no matter the young person's background or current circumstances, to fulfil their full potential. We want to continue having a positive impact on young people s lives and we couldn t do this without the important work of Youth Development Leads!
Perks for working at The Trust!
* Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure on the days between Christmas and New Year
* Flexible working! Unless the location of the role is remote, the Youth Development Lead role requires a combination of office days and working from home.
* You can volunteer for and/or attend events The King's Trust Awards, Pride, active events etc.
* In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
* Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial well-being support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas.
* Personal development opportunities through our Networks KT CAN (Cultural Awareness Network), KT GEN (Gender Equality Network), KT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network), and PULSE (LGBTQIA+ Network).
* Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks of full pay and 13 weeks of half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks of full pay for paternity leave.
* Interest-free season ticket loans
* Cycle-to-Work Scheme
* The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
* Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)