Senior Audience Engagement Officer

Youth Futures Foundation is the What Works Centre for youth employment. We exist to address the significant disparities in youth employment for marginalised groups. We want to ensure that all young people are able to access and keep good quality jobs. 

The problem we are aiming to address is growing. It is alarming that there are 788,000 16-24-year-olds not in education, employment and training (NEET), a 13% increase in the last year and more than during the pandemic. 

To best serve the young people from marginalised backgrounds who currently face many barriers to getting in and getting on at work, we need many decision makers across the sector – from employers to policy makers to front line organisations – to understand these barriers better and use evidenced based interventions to help dismantle them. We do this by translating our evidence, expertise and insight into audience focused engagement, content and resources and the Senior Audience Engagement Officer is a crucial part of this. 

We are looking for a creative, positive, organised and collaborative marketing and communications professional to join our ambitious and supportive team. You will play a pivotal role working with colleagues across the organisation to build meaningful engagement across various audiences, both internally and externally – from our staff team to policy makers and employers. You will build a detailed working knowledge of our core audiences and work in partnership across Youth Futures to ensure we are creating content and communications plans that meet our audiences’ as well as organisational needs. You will play a key role in ensuring Youth Futures’ voice is clear and consistent across our channels, with evidence brought to life through real life story telling that is effective in engaging and influencing our target audiences. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Youth Futures’ long-term strategic development as we develop our next three-year corporate strategy, and to help ensure that through effective, audience focused content and channels, we can best serve young people from marginalised backgrounds now and in the future. 

This role can be based at any of our hubs located in London, Birmingham or Leeds.  We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.

For more information, please download the job recruitment pack.

The young people we aim to serve – and the challenges they face - are all unique. We are looking to build a team that reflects this diversity. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, class, religion, identity, and experience forms the cornerstone of our work. We are an equal opportunities, Living Wage and Disability Confident employer and encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds representative of our communities. We offer a welcoming and inclusive workplace, where employees are encouraged to have a voice.