Strategic Lead for Workforce, Quality

**DYS292**:Strategic Lead for Workforce, Quality & Impact

**Location**:Devon Wide based in Exeter, Newton Abbot or Exmouth with some hybrid working

**Employment Type**:Fixed Term Contract (12 Months) with the potential for permanent

**Hours**: 30 hours per week

**Salary**:£37,948.38 Pro Rata (£46,803 FTE)

**Interview Date**:28th Feb 2025

**SPACE** is an ambitious and innovative charity, driven by our values and seeking to support even more young people by developing current and new services. Our employees strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others. We value everyone's contribution and create safe spaces for exploration and growth.

New Year, New Role

Are you ready to join an organisation that helps thousands of young people a year as they transition to adulthood? Do you like systems, processes & compliance and supporting people to understand and follow them?

We are looking to find a driven and collaborative leader to work primarily from our Youth Centre in Exeter, Newton Abbot or Exmouth depending on your home address. You will be joining us at the beginning of a new era for our organisation, supporting the evolution of our Services to youth people.

In this role, you will work alongside leadership colleagues to ensure our staff and volunteers are looked after, developed and perform to their best ability. You will also bring that quality mindset into our provision and lead on our evidence base and impact modelling for a wide variety of services, leading on the delivery for some. It's an exciting role, with room to influence, design and make it your own Please check out the JD to find out more about what we are offering and please call our CEO to discuss the role in detail.

**Key activities to expect**
- Contribute to the strategic direction of Space Youth Services, embedding our culture, EDI and values across all teams and services
- Understand what good looks like for our organisation and be able to translate that to staff and uphold our ambition to be excellent.
- Work with the Board and Leadership Team to develop, implement and monitor the organisation’s short, medium and long term Workforce Development plan
- Fulfill Space’s Lead investigator role
- Lead a small HR & workforce development team to ensure all related tasks are efficiently and effectively carried out
- Collaborating with strategic leads to manage staffing levels and capacity in line with payroll, vacancies and recruitment
- Lead a small team to ensure safe and responsible recruitment, induction and retention of our volunteers
- Instill a deeper understanding and use of evidence in our work. Utilising national and original methodologies to ensure our Youth Work delivery is driven by quality.
- Support staff with our evaluation framework, and tools to ensure reporting is accurate, timely and robust.
- Work with colleagues to secure agreed national kitemarks and/or quality frameworks for our organisation.

**Who we’re looking for**

**About You**:

- You want to make a difference. With young people, with communities, with colleagues, with partners, you want to play a significant part in an organisation that is making a difference.
- You believe in people and are inclusive.
- You are a highly skilled, experienced & qualified Youth Worker.
- You are collaborative and can lead when needed.
- You are patient.
- You are comfortable having difficult conversations when required to ensure the needs of young people are met first and foremost.
- You enjoy learning and developing your skills.

Space is an inclusive and learning organisation. Our employees should strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others and support them to succeed.

**What we offer**
- Annual leave: 5 weeks for the first 5 years then additional days depending on length of service (pro-rata’d for part-time roles)
- Additional 3 Statutory days given between Christmas and new year plus bank holidays
- Pension contributions starting at 6% rising to 8% in the third year
- Employee assistance programme 24/7
- Casual dress code
- Social occasions
- Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities
- Enhanced sick pay
- Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat
- Value-driven culture

**How to apply**

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact **Dan Barton on**07590 639423 or for more information please visit.

At SPACE, we work with young people and are fully committed to ensuring their safeguarding and welfare is a priority at all times. As part of our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures, all of our employees, contractors and volunteers will be expected to comply. Upon a conditional offer of appointment being made, all employees will also be required to satisfy our pre-employment screening process which will include:

- An identity check (photo ID)
- Receipt of satisfactory references cover for 3 years to current
- Documentary eviden