MEMBER NEWS: Inspiring Scotland are looking for a policy and participation manager!

Our partners at Inspiring Scotland are recruiting for a Policy and Participation Manager! This role would work on the intandem mentoring service and the aim of the job is to maintain and build supporting, trusted relationships with colleagues, the intandem portfolio, young people and stakeholders.

You can read more about the role at the file attached to this story and in the link to the job advert.

intandem is a national mentoring programme, funded by Scottish Government and The Robertson Trust, offering mentors to children and young people aged 8 to 14 years old who are living at home with support from their local authority or with extended family in kinship care. intandem is a voluntary programme with young people who want a mentor connecting weekly with a trained volunteer mentor to have fun, build a trusting relationship and work toward goals. An intandem coordinator helps enable and support this mentoring relationship. intandem is offered in 19 local authorities across Scotland through our 12 partner charities.

With funding from The Promise: A Good Childhood we are looking to recruit a Policy & Participation Manager to:

1. Lead the implementation of our participation strategy across intandem and our 12 partner charities. Review current activity across intandem, share best practice and further develop our collective approach to participation. This work will be informed by the views of children and young people, and our partner charities. 2. Manage and develop our young person's forum InVoice, now in its second year. Support the development of their structure and ambitions, to ensure that voice and participation remain at the centre of the design and delivery of intandem, and that this is shared with others in the mentoring community and beyond. 3. Work with internal colleagues and our partner charities to ensure there are a wide range of opportunities for children and young people to influence the development of intandem and Inspiring Scotland. 4. Support our policy and influencing work, particularly in light of the ongoing work of The Promise. This will be done through building relationships with external stakeholders, sharing our learning with others, and identifying opportunities to further develop intandem. 5. Take forward and implement recommendations, including further research, from our work exploring gaps in transition support in order to better support young people as they get older.