Empower Youth Zones is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton, East Manchester which opened in 2020 and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, Salford which is due to open to young people in Spring 2025. HideOut and Salford Youth Zones provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something position to do, and someone trusted to talk to.
Empower Youth Zones are part of the national network of OnSide Youth Zones, which supports the creation and implementation of a network of Youth Zones across the country. Youth Zones are purpose- built spaces fizzing with energy and crammed with incredible facilities. They are staffed by skilled and dedicated Youth Workers who truly believe in young people – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence, and ambition to go for it. This is life-changing support that helps tens of thousands of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive.
There are currently 15 active Onside Youth Zones across the UK with 20 due to be open by 2025.
Wigan Youth Zone is a purpose built, state-of-the-art youth facility in Wigan town centre which opened in June 2013. It offers young people from across Wigan the opportunity to meet friends, have new experiences, learn new skills and access the support they need to develop and achieve their potential. The Youth Zone is open to all young people across Wigan aged from 8 to 19 (up to 25 with additional needs), striving to offer something for everyone, regardless of their interests or abilities. With almost 15 dedicated areas to choose from including our four 40-metre floodlit football pitches, art room, music room and climbing wall – there’s something for everyone at Wigan Youth Zone.
Their aim is simple, to provide the town’s young people with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to.
This is a brand new, unique role to be an impact catalyst across both Empower and Wigan Youth Zones, generating support and building towards a data driven culture of impact in both organisations such that outcome measurement and impact reporting becomes routine, informing and shaping all we do.
It will lead on data analysis and reporting on the data we hold in our Salesforce CRM, improving both the quality and quantity of monitoring and evaluation processes, driving improvement in data capture through training and upskilling the team, demonstrating the measurable impact of youth work delivered. The role will also be responsible for measuring and demonstrating both charities impact to stakeholders; authoring and providing the necessary data to the leadership and fundraising teams and the Board (as required), annual publications such as Trustees reports and annual impact reports. Innovation is a key aspect of this role, involving the introduction and embedding of new methodologies to enhance the qualitative data capture process.
This role will collaborate closely with a cross section of teams within the Youth Zones, working with the Youth Work delivery teams to feed data into decision making, and with the Communication and Fundraising Teams to provide impact measurement and analysis content for use with stakeholders and in donor reporting. Furthermore, it will align impact and data work with national and local policy, and use national census, health, police, and other statistical data to position both youth zones for new income generation opportunities.
This role is ideal for someone who has the ability to bring technical analysis to life in a youth work setting and can communicate insights in an accessible style to different audiences. The Data Impact Manager should be passionate about embracing the power of youth work and be keen to support Youth Zones in evidencing the impact, expertise, and creativity to create buy-in and drive improvements in data capture, and someone who is keen to work flexible and closely with teams of passionate youth workers and who is unafraid of the challenges presented by Youth Zones across different areas.
As a growing and ambitious charity, we offer responsibility, variety, and the chance to work with a team wholly invested in providing young people the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
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