Amplify Voice Lead Youth Worker

**YOUTH FOCUS SOUTH WEST Amplify Voice Lead Worker - South West**
- **Location**:_Youth Focus South West is based in Plymouth and covers the wider South West region. The Amplify Development Worker can work from home or from the Plymouth office, and will be expected to be able to travel across the region and occasionally beyond. Youth Focus South West co-work together for 1 day a week.
- **Reporting to**:_Regional Youth Work Development Manager, Youth Focus South West
- **Responsible for**:_Team of up to 4 Peer Educators (16-25 years)
- **What is Amplify?**_
Amplify - Regional Youth Voices in Action is a national youth voice development programme, managed through the Network of Regional Youth Work Units. It is funded for 5 years by the National Lottery Community Fund. Youth Focus South West (YFSW) is leading the project in the South West region.
Amplify: Regional Youth Voices in Action | PYLThrough Amplify we plan to:

- 1. **Review the range of models of youth voice and youth engagement**with peer researchers across the regions, gathering data and insight from young people and professionals
- 2. **Run events** and training sessions for organisations on the various approaches in place
- 3. **Create** resources with young people i.e. podcasts, videos, training resources
- 4. **Develop** regional advisory boards across England

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- 5. **Learn** from the devolved nations about their work
- 6. **Build** cross regional partnerships on different themes i.e. global majority groups, care experienced young people depending on needs

As a result there will be:

- Greater national consistency to youth engagement and systems-change.
- Enhanced impact of young people’s voice and influence, with young people developing skills, knowledge and leadership.
- System change as a consequence of young people building skills that help them develop in the workforce and in life, and robust structures so young people’s engagement creates meaningful consideration of young people’s perspectives in decision making.
- The inequalities and barriers faced by under-represented/marginalised young people will be highlighted and addressed in youth engagement programmes

3 / 6_**Principal Duties**_
To work as part of Youth Focus South West and the Network of Regional Youth Work Units to build an inclusive and equitable approach to youth voice and youth engagement, ensuring the most marginalised and under-represented young people have their voices heard and acted upon across the UK. This will include:

- The collation of best practice around youth voice
- The facilitation of peer research approaches
- Facilitating learning networks and peer support groups
- Delivering training and support programmes
- Overseeing all communications related to the project
- Contributing to the online information hub on evidence for youth voice and co-production
- Contributing to evaluation and impact reporting requirements

**Main tasks**
Project Management
- To coordinate the regional delivery of the programme, developing regional work plans, tracking delivery and impact and coordinating regional partnerships
- To lead on the regional implementation of the programme of work in line with the agreed funding priorities
- To coordinate activities, network meetings and cross regional partnerships
- To work in collaboration with the other regions as part of the Network of Regional Youth Work Units
- To work with the YFSW Regional Youth Work Development Manager to manage the budget for all allocated programmes of work and provide regular updates on allocated spend to lead partner - Partnership for Young London
- To report on developments in line with the funder’s requirements
- To recruit and support young people in the region as peer researchers through supervision, reflective practice and line management

Learning and Development
- To facilitate peer research and youth engagement activities across the work in line with the project plan
- To facilitate training programmes, regional seminars and networks in line with the delivery plan with a particular focus on addressing inequalities and young people

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- To gather information on evidence frameworks and analyse research to build evidence for policy development, such as outcomes frameworks and evaluation tools

Partnership Development
- To maintain and increase the profile of Amplify - Regional Youth Voices in Action across a range of stakeholders including research organisations, think tanks, VCS providers and national, regional and local government
- To develop partnerships across the Network of Regional Youth Work Units as well as in region
- To develop collaboration with key stakeholders to create collaborations across various areas of work both on a strategic and practitioner basis
- To identify new partners to engage with the overall work plan for Amplify Regional Youth Voices in Action as part of the Network of Regional Youth Work Units build links in line with the business plan objectives
- To provide re