We're recruiting - come and join the Young Scot team

We are Young Scot – the national youth information and citizenship charity for 11-26-year-olds in Scotland.

We provide information, ideas and opportunities for young people, helping them to make informed decisions and choices, connecting them to opportunities locally, nationally and globally and empowering them to create and drive positive change.

We are looking for enthusiastic people with varying levels of skills and experience to join our friendly team.

Co-design & Scotland’s Young People’s Forest roles 

We’re looking for enthusiastic people with varying levels of youth engagement, service design, partnership management and administration experience to join our friendly and dynamic Young Scot Hive #YSHive team. 

#YSHive empowers young people to be system changers and influencers by sharing power with decision-makers and tackling society’s toughest challenges. We support organisations to partner with young people to define, design and deliver new policies and improvements to services.  

As part of #YSHive, we are delivering Scotland's Young People's Forest in partnership with YouthLink Scotland. Co-designed and governed by young people, the Forest will be one of Scotland's flagship projects as we prepare to host COP 26 in Glasgow later this year.

The closing date for applications is 7th April 2021, and interviews (online) will take place on:

  • Scotland’s Young People’s Forest Co-design Assistant: 11th May 2021

  • Scotland’s Young People’s Forest Co-design Officer: 7th May 2021

  • Scotland’s Young People’s Forest Partnerships Officer: 12th May 2021

  • Co-design Officer: 7th May 2021

  • Co-design Manager: 5th May 2021

  • Service Design Quality Assurance Manager: 5th May 2021

Interview dates may be delayed if we choose to keep our application period open for longer.

Inform, Connect & Support Services roles 

Our Human Resources Assistant will help to deliver our ‘People Strategy’ and will support our team to continually learn, develop their skills, and deliver excellent products and services for the young people we are proud to support. 

Our Digital Marketing Officer (new role) will ensure that young people from all communities and backgrounds in Scotland have access to the highest-quality, most relevant and timely information they need to make informed decisions and fulfil their potential.   

Our Smart Services Manager will lead the strategic development of our Young Scot National Entitlement Card services – including our Young Scot Membership services. Your work will give young people personalised enhanced entitlements, opportunities, incentives, and services – all in a non-stigmatising way.   

The closing date for applications is 6th April 2021, and (online) interviews will take place on:

  • Human Resources Assistant: 20th April 2021

  • Digital Marketing Officer: 28th April 2021

  • Smart Services Manager: 21st April 2021

Interview dates may be delayed if we choose to keep our application period open for longer.

How to apply

You should apply using our online application form (we aren’t able to accept CVs). If you'd prefer to fill in your application as a Word document and email it back to us, please download it and email it to us. If you need any support or have any questions, please email us or call on 0131 313 2488 or email us.

Our journey to becoming an Anti-Racist Ally 

At Young Scot, we’re working hard to become an explicitly Anti-Racist organisation. We are doing this by taking a close look at our organisation and identifying what it is we do that contributes to structural racism. As part of this work, we’ve reviewed our recruitment processes and made several changes. You can read more about this important work here.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and communities. This will help us to ensure that our staff team represents the young people in Scotland that we serve. We particularly welcome applications from Black people and people of colour, and disabled people – all of whom are currently under-represented at Young Scot 

Please note, a pay award review for all roles will take place in April 2021. 

Reid Aiton