Employer Engagement Officer

Join UK Youth as an Employer Engagement Officer and help create meaningful job opportunities for young people through our Summer Jobs Programme. In this role, you’ll build strong employer relationships, secure impactful work placements, and ensure a positive experience for every organisation involved.

Project Officer

This role creates a positive impact for young people by managing partners through the effective delivery of our youth work programmes, delivering high quality facilitation and training and building excellent relationships across a region to contribute to improvements in our network offer.

Working with Project Mangers across Network Delivery, you will enable the effective delivery of our provision to the youth sector through effective contract management and support for partnerships with Delivery Partners and Grantees. You will deliver high quality training and facilitated sessions, translating curriculum and content into engaging and effective delivery. Working within a specific geographical location you will pro-actively build relationships with organisations and networks and foster connections that will help to unlock youth work for all young people. You will gather insights from across your region to feed into and contribute to the development of our offer to our network.

Head of Programmes

Are you an experienced leader looking for a new challenge leading the delivery of a portfolio of complex programmes designed to improve young people’s employability, mental health and support community cohesion and safety? Do you thrive leading multitiered teams to deliver ambitious outcomes through a network of delivery partners in service of young people? Do effective contract management, operational planning, delivery across multiple programmes and regions, risk management and safeguarding give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside? Are you energised by the prospect of working alongside your colleagues developing and delivering new programmes to test and scale innovative youth work provision to meet the ever changing needs of young people across the UK, delivering life changing and life saving provision where it’s needed most?

Then this job is for you! UK Youth is looking for an experienced leader to lead and manage our programmes team and portfolio of programme delivery on a 12 month fixed term contract while the current post holder is seconded internally to a maternity cover. This is an exciting time to join our organisation: our new strategy is launching in 2026, we’re delivering large scale, complex programmes though our network of delivery partners, and we’re developing the future of our programme offer. The team you’d be leading in this role is diverse and committed, and as part of the Network Delivery Senior Leadership Team and wider UKY leadership team, you’d be working alongside a peer network of mission driven, talented grafters who enjoy a laugh and a RASCI. Come join us!