Youth Work Coordinator (Leeds)
Youth Work Coordinator
Join the team at GI as a Youth Work Coordinator!
We're looking for someone passionate about youth advocacy, with a talent for crafting impactful initiatives. As a skilled relationship-builder, you'll champion inclusivity and ensure the voices and experiences of young trans people are both heard and valued. Through the delivery of youth groups and projects (in Leeds and online), you’ll provide vital support to young people navigating the challenges of growing up trans/gender diverse in a cis-normative world, as well as other challenges and journeys that all young people face in society.
More than ever, young people are coming to us at a point of crisis. We can’t ‘fix’ the complex hardships they’re facing, but we specialise in providing safe(r), trans-only spaces where young people can be their authentic, whole selves without assessment or judgement.
The information below will help you decide if you would like this job; and tells you what to do if you decide you want to apply.
For more information on our team, benefits and culture, visit our Working at Gendered Intelligence page. For more information on our organisation and vacancies visit our Join the Team page.
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Job Overview
- Contract type: Permanent
- Hours: 14 hours per week (0.4 FTE). This role requires running the youth group sessions in Leeds on the evenings of the 2nd Tuesday and the 3rd Friday of each month, as well as the afternoon of the 2nd Saturday , as well as occasional other evenings or Saturdays for trips and events.
- Salary: £15,024.99 pro rata (£37,562.48 FTE)
- Hybrid working: Leeds and online
- Line Manager: Youth Work Manager
Recruitment Process & Timeline
Before filling out your application form, we recommend you visit our guidance page.
- Deadline for submission of applications: 9am 20th April 2026
- Shortlisted applicants will be informed by: 5pm on 22nd April 2026
- Interviews are organised for Thursday 30th April 2026. If you are not available on this day please let us know this when you apply. Interviews will take place in person in Leeds.
All job offers are made subject to references and DBS checks.
Occupational Requirement
In light of the nature of this position, GI considers this post to be subject to an Occupational Requirement in accordance with Para 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010 on the basis of the protected characteristics of gender reassignment and race. Therefore we are only requesting applications from people who are (or identify as) trans or non-binary.
The Role
You will be leading youth groups for trans young people, providing face-to-face delivery (in Leeds) and development of our trans youth work service.
You will:
- Identify the needs of young trans people in Leeds and the surrounding area and design a programme of activities with the aims of meeting these needs
- Liaise with other local trans youth provision to ensure that trans young people have a range of opportunities and options open to them
- Deliver sessions which reflect the needs of young people in relation to community and belonging, pride and confidence, and building of resources
- Work towards our organisation’s goals of improving gender diverse lives and increasing understandings of gender diversity
- Maintain accurate summary reports for sessions, so that these can feed into wider reflections on the service as well as developmental plans
- Manage partnerships that relate to the development and delivery of youth work practices
- Create an empathetic and safe environment for trans young people - an environment that our young people describe as “acceptance without expectation”
Full duties, responsibilities and person specification can be found in the attached recruitment pack at the end of the advert. Please ensure you have read the full description before applying.
Diversity Information
We are actively seeking to bring people with different lived experiences, diverse backgrounds, abilities and gender identities into the organisation, to create a workplace that is welcoming for all. As part of our commitment to increasing diversity, we hope you will complete our Diversity Monitoring Form which is not mandatory, but helps us to review the reach of our advertising and how we support candidates from different backgrounds through the process.
To find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, visit our Working at Gendered Intelligence page.
Additional Support
Want to learn more before applying?
We’re aware that people may have different needs or additional queries, and we want to support all potential applicants.
Contact recruitment@genderedintelligence.co.uk for anonymous support. As well as responding to any general queries about the process, we are offering a limited number of 15 minute slots to support applicants with their applications. These 1:1 online sessions will take place on Thursday 16th April before 1pm and will be hosted by the HR Officer, who is not involved directly in this recruitment process.
The sessions will provide the opportunity for potential applicants to ask any questions they have about GI, the process, or how to complete or what to include on the application form, in a confidential space. We hope these sessions will encourage individuals from marginalised and/or under-represented sections of our communities to apply for this position. While open to all, we would specifically encourage individuals who are transfeminine or people of colour to apply for a slot.
Please email recruitment@genderedintelligence.co.uk by 9am on 15th April if you would like to take advantage of this offer.