Fast Forward is looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join their Going Forward Programme Team. This role will have a focus on formal and informal education settings, and youth participation.
Do you enjoy working with people?
Do you have excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience working with young people?
Fast Forward is looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join their Going Forward Programme Team. This role will have a focus on formal and informal education settings, and youth participation.
Fast Forward is Scotland’s national youth work agency, focusing on supporting children and young people to make informed choices regarding, and take a harm reduction approach to, risk-taking behaviours, towards reducing the negative impacts of these on their lives and those of their families and wider community.
They promote health through programmes and resources developed by, with and for young people.
Going Forward Project Background
Since May 2017, the Going Forward Project has worked with partner organisations to deliver workshop sessions to vulnerable and at-risk young people in formal and informal education settings.
Sessions focus on core themes of health, wellbeing and risk-taking behaviours, particularly:
Youth Participation
In line with United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Fast Foward is committed to developing our children and young people’s participation work. They want children and young people’s experiences, opinions and suggestions to shape all aspects of their work.
This role will play a key part in supporting this development, embedding a child rights approach to Fast Forward’s work. This will include developing their children and young people’s Shadow Board.