Children and Young People Programme Manager

• 4YP (For Children and Young People)
• Address: 14 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1AP
• Salary: £31,380 per annum
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent
• Reference: 0807

4YP are seeking to appoint a full-time Children and Young People’s (CYP) Manager to lead and deliver high-quality support for young people age 7-25.

This is an exciting leadership role where you’ll shape the direction and impact of our CYP services, helping ensure that children and young people can access safe, meaningful support that really makes a difference in their lives.

As a member of the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT), be responsible for the planning, resourcing, leadership and evaluation of a programme of activity for children, young people and young adults (CYP) that fulfils the vision and mission of the charity.

Your responsibilities

• Lead and oversee high-quality CYP services, ensuring they are safe, engaging and responsive to need.
• Build positive relationships with young people while supporting and developing CYP practitioners to deliver effective, needs-led support.
• Work collaboratively with partners and use evidence to demonstrate impact and strengthen outcomes for young people.
• You’ll bring strong experience of working with young people and the ability to build trusted relationships through effective communication. You’ll also have the skills to lead high-quality, inclusive services that deliver real impact.

What you will need

• Proven experience of working in a similar role directly with young people.
• Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating youth work programmes.
• Experience of line management or supervising staff/volunteers.
• A recognised qualification in Youth Work, Community Development, Social Work or a related field (eg, JNC Level 3-6 Youth work).

About us

For Children and Young People, known as 4YP, is the longest running independent young people’s charity in Suffolk.

4YP believes that all children, young people and young adults should have somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to connect and journey with.

The mission of the charity is to, respond with agility to the changing needs of children, young people and young adults as they occur; ensure that children, young people and young adults are confident to transition to the next stages of their lives; and, ensure that children, young people and young adults are enabled to thrive and fulfil their potential.

Our intention is that children, young people and young adults have increased opportunities to shape the charity and its services. During the summer of 2026 a new premises will be completed, and we have a desire to ensure a more joined up approach to delivering clinical and wraparound services for children and young people, so that they and their families have ‘one front door’.

Our culture

4YP hope that all staff are enabled to work in accordance with their own values. We have two overarching cultural norms and a Code of Conduct which underpin our workplace and organisational culture:

• Staff and volunteers first - without our staff and volunteers there is no service.
• Our beneficiaries are paramount - in any given moment; the child, young person or young adult is the most important person in our world.
• Code of Conduct - a zero-tolerance approach is taken to non-adherence, especially how we engage with each other, children/young people and stakeholders.

For more information

Please read the Job Description (pdf).

To find out more, please contact Rebekah Warnock by calling 01473 252607.

How to apply

To apply, please submit your completed Application Form (Word) via the 4YP application portal.

Closing date: 12.00 pm, 24 July 2026.

Interview date: 4 August 2026.