Venture Scotland offers an outdoor-based personal development programme which empowers young people aged 16-30, who face complex and difficult challenges in their lives, to create and sustain change.
We focus on the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of our Young People, working with them to make lasting changes in their lives and helping them play a positive role in their community.
We are seeking an Outdoor Programme Leader to deliver our outdoors based, long term Journey programmes. This includes delivering outdoor activities and residentials that provide in depth and structured social and emotional learning opportunities for individuals and groups. An understanding of developmental theories such as social and emotional intelligence, Maslow, Choice Theory and therapeutic approaches such as Person Centred and Transactional Analysis is desirable.
The job will also involve evaluating, reviewing and developing our programme with young people and other stakeholders, supporting and developing volunteers, managing logistics, equipment and ensuring the highest standards of safety at all times.
Do you want to work in a supportive team of people, who really care about the young people we are helping? Do you want to work in an organisation who listens, values everyone views and cares about the health and wellbeing of their staff? Do you understand the transformative effect of the outdoors? Are you passionate about #ChangingYoungLives Outdoors?
This position is a full-time position that is currently funded for 3 years.
Venture Scotland is a registered charity (SC013901), founded in
1987 by a group of young volunteers who were inspired by their
experiences of volunteering with Raleigh International. Over the
past 30 years, we have become Scotland’s only provider of long
term, outdoor based, personal development for disadvantaged young
people.
Venture Scotland’s aim is to empower disadvantaged young people
to first recognise their skills and strengths and then achieve
their potential and in doing so, turn their lives around and make
an active contribution to their local communities.
Each year we support 100 young people aged 16-30 to develop new
life skills and build their confidence, improve their mental and
physical health and increase their access to employment, training,
education and volunteering. We do this by providing a 12-month
intensive outdoor based personal development programme known as
“The Journey”.
Through our programme we aim to build trusted and caring
relationships with our participants and to create a safe space for
them to change their own lives. By providing challenging, creative
and optimistic opportunities we enable young people to fully
explore their capabilities, explore and develop their potential and
help them in the acquisition of transferable life skills. Our main
goal is to provide a safe, stable and challenging environment
enabling personal growth, positive change and achievement to take
place.