Job ID:
4369
All Locations
Town Hall Extension, Albert Square, Manchester, M60 2LA
All Job Types
Leadership
Advertising Salary
£68,094 - £73,532
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Neighbourhoods
Advert Closing Date
30 Sep 2024
Working Patterns offered:
Full-time

About The Role

Manchester is a dynamic and thriving city that creates opportunity. We have one of the highest young populations in the country and ensuring that each one of these young people can reach their full potential is key to this city’s success. The Youth, Play and Participation team play a key part in this; ensuring young people's voices are heard, that they are able to influence decisions, and that they have the opportunity to access play and activities outside of a formal education setting.

 

To reach our ambition, we are looking for an exceptional candidate who can not only accelerate our work in this field but also form strong relationships across the youth and play sector. To demonstrate our commitment to ensuring that children and young people have the best opportunities and can achieve their full potential we have increased our investment and support into communities and facilities.

 

We are on course to becoming a UNICEF Child Friendly City and want to ensure that children and young people influence, challenge and inform City priorities and services.  

 

This senior post within Manchester City Council will provide a crucial leadership role for the city council and across the City’s Youth Play and Participation Sector in our ambition to be a UNICEF Child Friendly City. The role will ensure effective co-ordination of key strategies in relation to Youth, Play and Commissioning and will identify and oversee opportunities to improve provision across neighbourhoods through enabling community groups and partners and enhancing infrastructure.

 

 

 

About the Candidate

The postholder will sit within the Neighbourhoods Directorate, Communities Division, with an opportunity to embed YPPS within the Communities Division to ensure more effective neighbourhood communications, particularly as we develop new Area Youth Forums and revised governance, whilst retaining a strong link to the wider existing and growing universal youth offers from libraries, galleries, culture, parks and leisure. 

We are looking for candidates with a strong record of leadership and delivery to apply for this exciting opportunity. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of the youth and play sector; this may be through public, private or third sector experience. As an effective leader within the City Council, you will have a unique opportunity to strategically lead and influence practice and partners to improve outcomes for children and young people.

 
For more information, and If you require any adjustments to be able to engage in the recruitment process please contact our partner agency Osborne Thomas 

Email: [email protected]

Call: 020 3280 3671

 
Or visit their website to apply:

About Us

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion. 

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. 

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

  • We take time to listen and understand
  • We work together and trust each other
  • We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
  • We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
  • We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council 

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.   

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.   
 

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

  • Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
  • Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
  • If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work. 

We’ve also included some useful tips on how to submit the best application.

When you join us 

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role. 

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