Youth Programmes Officer

We're looking for a Youth Programmes Officer to join the YoungMinds Youth Participation & Safeguarding team. This is a permanent role. Your role will be located within the Youth Social Action team and will primarily involve direct work with young people (aged 14-25) on our activist programme, and the other youth programmes at YoungMinds. You will report to the Youth Social Action Manager and work closely with colleagues across the youth participation and safeguarding teams to deliver and support young people’s safe and meaningful engagement in youth programmes. You will also work cross organisationally with colleagues from various teams to support embedding youth participation in all of YoungMinds’ work. As the Youth Programmes Officer, you will lead the coordination, support and delivery of activities that put young people’s voices and experience at the front and centre of everything we do. You will do this by supporting colleagues across the organisation to work collaboratively with young people (aged 14-25) on the Activist Programme and other Youth Programmes at YoungMinds. Key responsibilities include facilitating and supporting sessions for young people, supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the Youth Programmes, co-designing resources with young people for young people, parents and carers and community professionals, co-producing campaigns with young people, working with our policy team to ensure the lived experience of young people informs our policy positions, and working with the safeguarding team to ensure that all work undertaken with young people is safe and inclusive. You will act as a bridge between staff and young people using your understanding of youth work, participation and safeguarding to ensure that there are regular opportunities that feel safe, inclusive, accessible and provide a way for young people to get involved. This will include the use of online and digital platforms as well as face-to-face work. You will be an enthusiastic champion for young people and have a strong voice in the things that impact their mental health and services they receive.