Suffolk Refugee Support
Suffolk Refugee Support(Charity no:) is recruiting a Youth Coordinator.
Suffolk Refugee Supportaims to ensure that all asylum seekers and refugees in Suffolk are enabled to live integrated fulfilled and contributing lives in their new awelcoming environment where clients can access help advice support and practical services in order to be healthy and safe and begin to rebuild their lives.
We work withexternal agencies communityand voluntary sectororganisations health providers and others to enable our clients to access a range are based in Ipswich but our services operate increasingly out on location with refugees and asylum seekers housed in accommodation across Suffolk.
The Youth Coordinator will work with children and young people under the age of 25. This cohort is made up of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) young asylum seekers or refugees living independently and children and young people living in refugee or asylum-seeking families. This group have specific needs and the role will be a mixture of advice work and delivery and coordination of projects to help promote the personal educational creative and social development of young people.
You are required to work 21 hours a week (days to be confirmed with the successful candidate). You will usually be expected to work 1 to 2 evenings per week (including Tuesdays and Thursdays) and occasional weekends.
How to apply
For a recruitment pack please visitour website call or email Marianne Walker on
Closing date: 12 pm 20 March 2026.
Interview date: 26 March 2026.
We aim to notify shortlisted candidates by 24 March 2026.
Important note on Working with Minors.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore all convictions cautions and bind-overs including those regarded as spent must be declared at the application stage.
The successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check to be carried out upon commencement of employment. The successful applicant must be eligible to work in the UK.
Required Experience:
IC
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