Youth and Community Coordinator

• Inspire 
• Address: Lindbergh Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9QX 
• Salary: £26,369 - £28,716 per annum 
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week 
• Contract: Permanent, required as soon as possible 
• Reference: 0526

Inspire are looking to appoint a Youth and Community Coordinator to lead the day-to-day coordination and delivery of a front-line team of Youth and Community Practitioners operating across Ipswich and the Babergh Districts. 

You will be managing staff rotas and providing operational support to youth workers, sessional staff, coaches, and volunteers. You will oversee the delivery of open-access sessions (including sport), holiday clubs, detached work, school-based activities, and targeted one to one support, including evening and possible weekend delivery.

You will drive high-quality, needs-led provision by undertaking local needs assessments, developing new projects, and ensuring programmes support children and young people to set goals, overcome challenges, and access further opportunities. The role holds key relationships with referral partners, schools, families, and community organisations, representing Inspire at stakeholder meetings and maintaining strong local networks.

A core part of this role is ensuring young people are active partners and leaders in shaping services, while maintaining robust safeguarding, health and safety, and professional standards. You will manage budgets and resources effectively, ensure accurate data recording across internal systems, and continuously improves delivery processes to maintain high-quality, safe, and inclusive youth work.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• providing day-to-day operational support to Youth and Community Practitioners, ensuring the coordination of rotas across both sites for staff and volunteers
• coordinating staff and volunteer participation in youth programmes
• supporting safer recruitment of youth workers, sessional staff, and volunteers
• leading and delivering youth provision, including open-access sessions, holiday clubs, detached work, school programmes, one to one support, and evening sessions with possibility for weekend sessions
• empowering and supporting young people through one-to-one and group work sessions, helping them set goals, overcome challenges, and access additional services
• building strong relationships and partnerships, acting as a key contact for schools, referral partners, families, and representing Inspire at stakeholder meetings
• assessing local needs and develop new projects, maintaining community networks and creating programmes that respond to the needs of children and young people
• ensuring safe, high-quality delivery, including safeguarding, health and safety compliance, behaviour management, and equipping staff to manage risk
• championing youth voice, ensuring young people influence decision-making, programme delivery, and opportunities for leadership
• overseeing resources, budgets, and data systems, ensuring accurate recording, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement of programmes.

We will offer you:

Join our fantastic Team and enjoy a range of benefits to enhance your own well-being, improve your work-life balance and most importantly make a difference to the lives of the young people we work with. 

Our benefits include: 

• An extra day of annual leave for each year of dedicated service 
• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and dedication 
• Free spaces for your dependents at our holiday clubs, providing peace of mind for working parents
• Free car parking at our centres for easy access to the workplace. 
• And most importantly you'll be making a real difference every day.

How to apply

Please submit your CV and Covering Letter to Jackie Partridge, Head of Services by emailing at

Closing date: 1pm, 2 January 2026. 

We review every application carefully and, if we consider your profile a good match, we will contact you to invite you to take part in the interview process. The first part of the interview process will be a telephone interview, and the second part of the process will be in the form of a formal interview.

Shortlisting and interviews will take place while the advertisement is live, which may mean the position is closed early if suitable candidates are found.

We believe in equality, diversity and inclusion. We are committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all.

Inspire is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.