Youth Development Officer – RISE UP
Location: Manchester (Hybrid Working)
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Reporting to: Head of Charity
Salary: c.£28,500.00 plus benefits per annum.
Closing Date: 9th July 2026
Are you passionate about making a real difference for young people?
About RISE UP
We are a dynamic charity dedicated to empowering young people aged 16-30 who face barriers to employment. Through mentorship, guidance, and meaningful connections to opportunity, we equip young people with the skills, confidence, and support they need to achieve their career aspirations and progress into sustainable employment, education, or training.
We exist to bridge the gap between young people and their next steps, ensuring they are not only supported to identify their potential but provided with the tools and connections to turn their goals into a reality. Our vision is a future where every young person is empowered by their potential and able to build a sustainable career without limitation.
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Role Overview
The Youth Development Officer role is centred on empowering young people to overcome barriers and move towards positive, sustained progression in employment, education, or training. Through holistic assessment, the Youth Development Officer will develop a deep understanding of each young person’s background, strengths, aspirations, and challenges. This will enable the identification of the most appropriate support pathways, providing tailored guidance, referrals, and signposting to ensure young people receive the right support at the right time.
A key aspect of the role is delivering personalised, strengths-based support through one-to-one coaching and group sessions. This includes building practical employability skills such as CV writing, interview preparation, and job searching, alongside developing confidence, motivation, communication skills, and career awareness. Sessions will be carefully planned and adapted to meet the diverse needs of young people, ensuring an inclusive and engaging learning environment that supports personal growth and aspiration.
The Youth Development Officer plays a vital role in supporting progression and sustaining outcomes, working closely with colleagues and partners to help young people transition into work placements, employment, training, or education.
This includes providing ongoing follow-up and post placement support to address challenges, reinforce progress, and promote long term success. The role requires empathy, resilience, and adaptability when working with young people who may face complex or multiple barriers, always taking a person centred and solution focused approach.
Collaboration is at the heart of the role, essential is the building of strong relationships with a range of external partners such as Job Centres, training providers, employers, and community organisations to ensure a coordinated support offer. Alongside this, the role includes maintaining accurate records, contributing to impact reporting, and upholding safeguarding and organisational policies.
Representing the programme professionally in external settings, the Youth Development Officer acts as both an advocate and facilitator, helping to create opportunities and positive outcomes for young people.
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What we offer
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of youth unemployment to ensure that our services are shaped by those who understand them best. If you share our vision to unlock the potential of young people, we would be delighted to receive your application.
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