Youth Development Lead - Employability (Lancashire)

The King's Trust · Preston, England, United Kingdom

FULL TIME

Job Description

Contract Type:

Fixed Term until 19/11/2027

Hours:

Full Time, 35 hours per week

Closing Date:

23:59 on 25/11/2026

Salary:

£25,092.00 to £28,783.00 dependent on your, skills, knowledge and experience

Location

Lancashire

Interviews:

9th of November

in-person

at our Lancashire Delivery Space

We're looking for a passionate and driven Youth Development Lead to support young people in our employability programmes as they take steps towards sustainable employment. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine coaching, facilitation and partnership working to help young people overcome barriers, build confidence and achieve their goals.

You’ll have the opportunity to build relationships with a caseload of young people, identifying barriers and supporting them into better outcomes. Day-to-day you’ll be planning and delivery employability sessions and supporting volunteers and delivery partners to do the same. You may also be offering one-to-one support and guidance to young people, building your relationship and keeping them engaged with the programme.

Behind the scenes, you’ll be collaborating with our Outreach and Marketing teams to ensure young people are onboarded and recruited successfully. Alongside this, you’ll be accurately recording data about our young people, volunteers and partners using our CRM. Most importantly, you’ll be ensuring delivery upholds safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection standards making sure young people have the best and safest experience.

We’d love to hear from you if you have managed a caseload of young people in the past, helped them overcoming barriers to employment, education and training, and have a deep understanding of the challenges they face. If you are able to facilitate engaging group sessions surrounding work and skills development and can develop relationships with stakeholders and delivery partners to ensure the best delivery possible, we’d love to receive your application.

You will hit the ground running if you have great time management skills, organisation and are familiar with inputting data on CRM. We work with young people from a diverse range of backgrounds, so experience working with young people who may have additional needs would be beneficial.

At The King's Trust, we know that talent comes in many forms and that different perspectives make us stronger. We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong and can be themselves. If you're excited about the role but don't meet every single requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.

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What happens next?

For our Youth Development Lead roles, there's no need to upload a CV or cover letter, as we use a strengths-based approach. Simply complete your profile, including the screening questions. If you pass the initial screening, you'll be invited to complete an online assessment (which must be completed to be considered). We'll then be in touch with 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)

For more information about our benefits,

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Equal Opportunities

Here at The King's Trust, we're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion and sex. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives.

We are looking for people who can bring different perspectives and experiences and especially welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in our organisation and sector, such as candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

We’re a Stonewall Diversity Champion and we are an employer that is Disability Confident. Our staff, volunteers and young people are supported by KT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), KT GEN (Gender Equality Network), KT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and PULSE (LGBTQIA+ Network). For more information,

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Safeguarding

The King's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks by the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

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