Location
Thamesmead

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£39,600 per annum

About the Role
Are you passionate about helping young people thrive? Do you enjoy building partnerships, delivering community programmes and creating opportunities that make a lasting difference? We are looking for a motivated and community-focused Young Peoples Project Officer to deliver impactful programmes across Greenwich and Bexley. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside young people, residents, partners and stakeholders to improve outcomes and create opportunities that help young people become healthier, wealthier and happier.

Your role will include delivering projects and programmes that support young people across Greenwich and Bexley, building and maintaining partnerships across local authorities, health services, schools, employers and community organisations. You will manage projects, volunteers and apprentices to achieve positive outcomes for young people and support the development of services that reflect the needs, aspirations and voices of young people and their families. Ensuring programmes are high quality, inclusive and demonstrate positive outcomes will be key, alongside monitoring performance, evaluating impact and contributing to funder and stakeholder reporting. You will also support the promotion of services and opportunities to increase engagement with young people and ensure safeguarding remains central to all aspects of delivery.

Typical activities include meeting with young people, residents and partners to understand local needs and priorities, coordinating projects and opportunities that support young people's development and aspirations, working with schools, community groups and partner organisations to deliver local services, reviewing project performance and tracking progress against plans and targets, producing reports, gathering insight and analysing data to demonstrate impact, and working with colleagues to promote programmes and encourage participation.

Experience
- Delivering programmes that improve outcomes for children, families or young people
- Strong project management and organisational skills
- Working collaboratively with a range of partners and stakeholders
- Knowledge of safeguarding and best practice when working with children and families
- Experience monitoring, evaluating and demonstrating project impact
- Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills
- Confidence using data, reporting information and Microsoft Office applications

About you
- Passionate about creating opportunities for young people
- Collaborative and relationship-focused
- Organised, proactive and resilient
- Analytical and able to use insight to inform decisions
- Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion

Qualifications
- A relevant professional qualification would be advantageous
- Experience working within housing, regeneration or community development settings is desirable