Job Description

Practice Development Manager

A full job description and person specification, along with an application form can be downloaded from the 'Additional Documents' section.

Are you a JNC qualified youth worker with a passion for workforce development? If you have the experience, proven track record and energy to support us to develop a skilled and effective youth sector workforce come and join our team.

The National Youth Agency (NYA) is the national body for youth work. We believe investing in young people’s personal and social development helps them overcome challenges and reach their potential. We want to ensure young people get access to the youth workers they need, so we seek to secure youth work through policy and advocacy; supporting youth workers to do their jobs better and; securing new resources.

NYA is in a new and exciting period of development and a key part of our work is to grow the support and services we provide for all those working with young people.
This management post is central to leading and developing the work of NYA across workforce and quality standards development within youth work. It will be pivotal in working with stakeholders across the sector to ensure that the initial training of youth workers reflects the needs of the landscape in which they operate, and the young people they work with as well as ensuring quality CPD to ensure youth workers are supported to retain strong professional identity and competence through their careers.

We need a proactive person that can competently manage a mixed portfolio and bring youth work expertise to everything we do. This role requires a JNC qualified youth worker with experience within a higher educational institution setting or who is experienced in initial training/CPD design and delivery.

This role will include leadership of the professional validation programme (JNC) and support the Education and Training Standards Committee (ETS) as well as ensuring the wider NYA’s training and quality standards guidance and offer makes a powerful difference to the development of the youth work workforce.

If you are interested in this post please download and complete the application form and return it to Jaede Todner no later than Monday 30th April 2018 (12 noon).

Closing date: Monday 30th April 2018 (12 noon)
Interview date: Tuesday 8th May 2018 (in Leicester)