Team Leader - Engagement and Participation

We are excited to be recruiting a new Team Leader – Engagement and Participation. 

This crucial role within our organisation leads on planning, designing and implementing a consistent and wide range of youth voice, participation and engagement opportunities for all young people accessing 1625ip services. Our Engagement and Participation Team Leader also plays a lead role in progressing the youth voice aims and objectives in our organisational strategy. 

Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 5th February 2025.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritised ethnic groups, Black/Black British, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience. 

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible. 

Who are we?

We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.

What you will be doing:

• You are someone with who values youth voice as a tool that empowers young people to affect change about issues that matter to them.
• Your passion for empowering and supporting young people will give you the motivation and creative skills to ensure that the youth voice and participation offer at 1625ip is high quality, co-produced with young people, and is varied and accessible.
• You will also strive to ensure that youth voice and participation is well co-ordinated and embedded across the whole organisation.
• By being empathetic and truly understanding the complex needs of homeless young people / young people leaving care, and the barriers they face, you will also be equipped to design and implement a reengagement offer for all our young people.
• You are someone who line manages others with confidence; you coach and support them with passion. This role will involve line management of our Engagement and Participation Workers.
• As a person with vision and oversight, who is also highly solution focussed, you will be very involved in the delivery of our aims and objectives in the youth voice section of our organisational strategy.

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job. 

Contract details 

Hours per week: 37.5 Per Week (This represents full time) 
Contract type: Permanent 
Pay: £32,654 - £35,235 per annum (NJC scale 22-25) 
The location: Kingsley Hall – there is also flexibility and support to manage working from home.

A few benefits at 1625ip

In return for your dedication, we offer:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
• Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF
• A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing ?1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.