Young Person’s Senior Participation Lead for Wales

We are seeking a passionate and motivated person to lead on a new participation project funded by NSPCC and led by Platfform exploring young people’s safety online.  The project will run for 16 months across the whole of Wales, with the aim of gaining an insight into the views and experiences of young people who live in Wales in relation to online safety and understanding how nation-specific changes can support them and other young people to stay safer online as well as how these can join up with other nations to represent young people’s voices across the UK. The role of the Engagement Worker will be to lead on the planning and delivery of high-quality engagement and participation workshops, activities, events, and wellbeing sessions for children and young people across Wales. This role will be key to ensuring the ideas of children and young people are listened to and supported through a co-production process.  This role will also involve setting up a young people’s advisory group and planning the project’s evaluation activity. The focus of the project is to amplify youth voice, taking young people on journey and helping transform their ideas into meaningful change. This work will suit someone who is motivated and energetic, passionate about young people’s strengths, co-production, innovation and has a genuine desire to bring about positive change for children and young people in Wales.  

The role will involve extensive travel across Wales, so we are looking for someone who is excited about working with young people in all corners of the country and has the capacity to do so.

The ability to speak Welsh is not essential but highly desirable for this role, and there is an expectation that the successful candidate would be willing to learn at least some basic Welsh if they are not a fluent speaker. Platfform is committed to delivering this work bilingually.