Job Description
Buttle UK supports those living in financial hardship and dealing with multiple social issues.
We provide funding to improve emotional, educational, and social outcomes for children and
young people. For a small number of children, whose ongoing home environment is disruptive
and chaotic, grants which support them to go to boarding school.
We are looking for a part-time Co-production and Youth Engagement Manager to join our
small and enthusiastic team achieving amazing things. You will lead the engagement of young
people, families and referral partners, and work with Buttle UK colleagues to inform and
develop Buttle’s UK’s work, to help us be accountable to the children and young people we
support.
Buttle UK is committed to championing the voices and insights of the individuals we support.
This new role is designed to put young people and frontline workers at the centre of our
learning and improvement, our decision-making and our strategic planning. Buttle UK wants
to use co-production to learn from its grantees and related individuals to be accountable, to
inform best practice in its grant-making and to help identify and understand systemic issues
affecting the young people we support.
You will be responsible for overseeing our participation and co-production work. This includes
establishing and running two groups; a Youth Panel of young people aged 16-25 with lived
experience of poverty, crisis and disadvantage, the second is an Advisory Group created to
provide expert independent advice to Buttle UK on issues relating to the development and
delivery of all its work but, in particular, its grant making.
You will share our values of being child focused, empathetic, responsive, collaborative, and
accountable. Buttle UK is passionate about promoting equity, valuing diversity, and working inclusively. We
welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with disabilities
and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently
underrepresented in our workforce.
We are open to flexible working and allocating the 21 hours per week as suits you; e.g., to
accommodate care responsibilities, other work commitments, or personal preference.