Space at the Broomhouse Hub are recruiting a Youth Befriending Project Manager position.
The post is contracted until July 2027, working part-time 21 hours per week over three or four weeks with a salary of £32,422 pro-rata (actual starting salary: £18,913).
From the job advertisement:
The Role
Space is seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic manager to lead our Youth Befriending team, a volunteer-led service that provides befriending to children who have been impacted by addiction within their family.
Space Youth Befriending matches children aged five to 16 years old with a volunteer befriender. Through individualised weekly activity-based meet-ups, the befriender supports and encourages the young person to build confidence and self-esteem, improve social skills, and make friends.
The Project Manager will ensure quality, effectiveness, compliance, and efficiency of the service whilst holding the needs of the children at the forefront.
The Project Manager will be a key leader in the Space team, building positive working relationships with all staff and stakeholders.
They will collaborate with the Head of Service to continually plan, monitor, assess, and develop projects within the befriending services.
They will also oversee the delivery of our Bookbug session, which runs one morning each week.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage a team of staff and volunteers through all aspects of the people lifecycle, including recruitment, supervision, training and development plans, performance management, and reviews
- Ensure adequate staffing levels for all activities within Space Befriending services to safeguard against risk and maintain quality of delivery
- Coordinate marketing activities to raise external awareness of Space Befriending services
- Proactively engage with children/young people, their families, and stakeholders to plan and implement person-centred programmes to meet individuals needs
- Maintaining accurate records of progress and outcomes, using data to generate regular reports for funders
- Working alongside Space fundraisers to locate opportunities for further funding and contribute to funding applications
Required skills and experience:
- Minimum of two years’ experience in a team management role, being able to clearly demonstrate excellent leadership skills and the ability to naturally connect with a range of people across ages and walks of life
- Hold a recognised professional qualification in social work, youth work, community education, childcare, or other subject relevant to role
- Well-rounded knowledge of how addiction impacts families and experience of supporting people who have been impacted by addiction
- Experience of delivering against targets and preparing reports to show outcomes
- Positive can-do attitude, ready to embrace challenges with a creative approach to tasks and problem solving
- Have some flexibility around working hours to provide occasional evening on-call support and attend events outside normal office hours
The closing date for applications is Monday, 20 October 2025, to apply return a completed application form to careers@spacescot.org. You can read the full job advertisement and download an application form online here.
