GMYN is on the lookout for three exceptional individuals to join our passionate team as Programme Coordinators
These new staff roles will be instrumental in helping young people take part in positive activities and develop key skills. You would be joining a passionate and highly skilled team, all wanting to make a difference to young peoples lives.
The three posts will plan and deliver activities on the following GMYN Youth Programmes:
Care Experienced Programme
At GMYN, we’re committed to amplifying the voices of care-experienced young people, ensuring they have a platform to lead on their own futures. Our Care Experienced Programme is built on creative, youth-led approaches that promote personal growth and resilience. We provide practical support while making sure young people are involved in every step of their journey, from decision-making to shaping the activities and services they engage in.
Disability and Neurodiversity Programme
Our Disability and Neurodiversity Programme celebrates individuality and empowers young people to thrive in an inclusive, creative space. We actively consult with disabled and neurodivergent young people (DND YP) to ensure their voices shape everything we do. Our projects have supported DNDYP to participate in social and developmental activities, have an active voice in their community and improve their wellbeing.
Work Readiness & Education Programme
Our Work Readiness & Education Programme offers a dynamic, hands-on approach to preparing young people for the workforce. Through courses, job clubs, placements, corporate partnerships, and real-world experience, we ensure young people develop not just the skills they need but the confidence to succeed. Our staff love engaging in creative activities that make learning fun: whether it's through interactive workshops, team challenges, or creative CV-building.
The main activities delivered through these programme include:
- Life skills workshops such as cooking, budgeting, leading healthy lifestyles workshops.
- One-to-one support to provide bespoke guidance so young people can overcome barriers and set goals.
- Creative/outdoor activities such as music, drama, art, sport etc.
- Consultations to ensure that young people have a voice in designing their programme.
In these roles you will need to be confident in inspiring and engaging young people that face various disadvantage and be able to develop positive partnerships with various stakeholders.
We are looking for Programme Coordinators that can be flexible and committed team players. In return you will have the chance to have creative ownership of our programmes, bringing your own skills and ideas to make them an amazing experience for young people to be involved in.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver activities - Plan, and facilitate engaging, inclusive sessions and 1:1 support for young people with varied needs, using trauma-informed and youth work approaches.
- Build meaningful relationships - Establish and maintain trusted relationships with young people, using a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach underpinned by youth work principles to support individual development, and promote positive wellbeing.
- Safeguarding practice- Uphold GMYN’s safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all young people and staff are safe, supported, and empowered.
- Embed youth voice - Ensure activities are youth-led by involving young people in planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Work collaboratively with partners - Act as a connector bringing together local authorities, schools, employers, and community groups to create opportunities for young people.
- Provide tailored support - Offer bespoke support that helps young people develop new skills, explore education or employment pathways, and build confidence and resilience.
- Champion inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility - Deliver accessible, inclusive sessions for young people tailored to diverse needs.
- Promote and represent GMYN – Represent GMYN by engaging with stakeholders, referral agencies, schools, and partners to promote our work and help shape our future.
- Monitor and evaluate impact - Use GMYN’s systems to track participation, progress, and outcomes. Capture both quantitative data and qualitative stories to evidence impact.
- Project administration - Complete administrative tasks such as session planning, data inputting, budgeting, and reporting to support effective project management.
- Continuous learning - Engage in ongoing training and reflective practice, contributing to your professional development and continuous programme improvement.
- Be flexible and adaptive - Embrace a dynamic working environment, showing initiative and adaptability to respond to the evolving needs of young people and the organisation.
Further information and full personal specification can be found by downloading the job pack at Work with us - GMYN
Your invitation to interview will be based on how you demonstrate that you meet the points on the person specification.
We will consider skills and experiences from various roles across all sectors, if you can demonstrate how they can be transferable to this role.
Please email your application and CV to jobs@gmyn.co.uk
In your application, please answer the questions below.
Please ensure that your answers are no longer than 200 words.
Alternatively, you can send an audio application if you prefer. If you send audio, please ensure that the answers are no longer than 2 minutes.
While we acknowledge that candidates might use AI to write their applications, we prefer to hear from their authentic selves.
- Please tell us why you want to work at GMYN and how you meet the values.
- Can you describe your approach to safeguarding young people?
- Please outline your experience working with one (or more) of the following groups of young people – care experienced, disabled or neurodivergent or young people on their path to work / and life readiness.
- Outline how you work with young people in a trauma informed way.
- Explain how you would ensure that young people’s voices are heard throughout your work.
Closing date: Monday 4th August 12pm.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 12th August and Thursday 14th August
In May 2025 we received membership status for the GM Good Employment Award. This means we have gone through a rigorous process to ensure that we are the best employer we can be in the following areas – secure work, flexible work, pay, engagement & voice, recruitment, people management, health & wellbeing. In essence, we care about staff and strive to support them to be happy and succeed in the workplace.
All staff receive the following offer:
Annual Leave: All staff receive 25 days of annual leave in additional to the public bank holidays, pro rata. This offer rises after three years employment with an extra day each year (capped at 30 days). We also provide additional "Gift Days" during Christmas when the office is closed.
Flexible Working: We operate flexible working hours and working from home policies to allow you to fit your personal commitments around your work.
Remuneration: We are a living wage employer, benchmarking salaries and reviewing annually. We provide development opportunities for staff to experience key themes such as project management, staff supervision and other areas of the organisation to help with role/salary progression.
Celebration leave: GMYN allows all employees to take a day off from work each year to celebrate their birthday or a religious celebration.
Wellbeing Days: Staff receive five annual ‘no-questions-asked’ days off, taken as needed to reduce stress and support mental wellbeing as part of their holiday allowance.
Emergency leave: Staff are allowed time off to deal with an emergency or other situations which have an impact on their ability to work. GMYN pay full salary for up to 5 days a year pro rata for staff to deal with an immediate situation that is out of their hands and unplanned.
Pension: We offer a salary sacrifice 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contributions.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Staff have access to a 24/7 service offering a wide range of support.
Volunteering/Development hour: GMYN allows all staff members the opportunity to take one hour out of their working week to either volunteer or engage in a development hour.
Social Value: GMYN takes pride in our social value and environmental impact, continually seeking team-led ideas to drive improvement.
Cycle to Work Scheme: GMYN provides the Cycle to Work scheme, supporting staff to buy a bike, with the cost of the equipment repaid by the employee through salary sacrifice.
Pro rata for hours worked. flexible Full/Part Time, 28- 35 hours per week
