Youth Services Manager

Join a Team of Passionate People Transforming Lives Across the North East 

No matter what your job is at shmu, everyone’s work is about the same thing – transforming the lives of individuals and communities across North East Scotland. We are looking for an exceptional, passionate, supportive individual to join our team as Youth Services Manager - a pivotal leadership role within the organisation, overseeing our innovative and wide-ranging programme of services for young people across the North East.

We passionately believe in supporting young people to expand their horizons and achieve their full potential. As one of the core cultural organisations in the region we’re on a mission to use media to creatively transform lives.

With over 20 years of experience in delivering youth-led initiatives, our youth work is nationally recognised. Our work with young people focusses on long-term support, concentrating on the key points of transition (from primary to secondary school, and leaving school), and with young people experiencing challenges and disadvantage.

The primary focus for our organisation’s work with young people are those who live in the seven regeneration areas of Aberdeen. These are the most disadvantaged areas of the city [all in the 0% - 20% in the SIMD index].

As a principle, we believe that young people should be at the heart of the decision-making processes and have established a governance structure that ensures that participants are heavily involved in the oversight of existing provision and the development of any new areas of work.

We are recruiting for a Youth Services Manager, a pivotal leadership role within our organisation, with the post holder working alongside the Chief Executive to design, manage and coordinate all operational aspects of our Youth Services strand across our organisation and to uphold our values relating to the organisation’s services for young people.  

Our Youth Services Manager will be a passionate advocate for shmu’s youth services, supporting young people to maximise their potential. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the impact of our work with young people is recognised and valued and will ensure that the organisation’s youth services are designed, managed and delivered to the highest standards through robust quality assurance and performance management. 

As a dedicated role, we expect this post to play a key role significantly in maintaining shmu’s status within the youth work sector and the postholder will be expected to work alongside our Communications Officer to help amplify the transformational work we are doing in this area.