About The Agency

The Agency is a creative entrepreneurship programme. It gives young people aged 15 to 25 agency to affect real change in their own community.

The Agency started in Southampton in 2021, building on success in London and Manchester. Energise Me brought together arts, non-arts and community organisations united in the vision of making a real difference to the lives of young people.

Using an arts-based methodology from Brazil, The Agency provides development opportunities for young people. It helps them to launch ambitious projects and social enterprises that will benefit their local area.

About the role

An exciting opportunity to lead the management and delivery of The Agency (Southampton).

• Part of Energise Me’s Places Team

• Reports to the Head of Place-based Development

• 21 hours per week, worked to fit the needs of the role and programme delivery (including Tuesday evenings and Saturdays)

• 25 days paid holiday per year (pro rata) plus bank and public holidays

• Creative Pension - Energise Me will pay 10% employer contribution

• 3 x Salary Life cover from date of date of employment underwritten by AIG Life.

Here’s a taste of what you’ll do:

• Build and maintain successful partnerships with organisations and individuals across Southampton.

• Work creatively with the facilitation team, past Agents and referral agencies to reach as many and as diverse a range of young people as possible.  

• Create a welcoming, inclusive and inspiring environment where young people feel safe, encouraged and able to do their best.

• Safeguard the wellbeing of young people during the project.

• Organise marketing and publicity for the programme.

• Line manage The Agency (Southampton) facilitation team.

• Manage and track the programme budget.

About you

You'll be the right person for this job if:

• You have a talent for managing projects.

• You’re passionate about delivering creative participatory projects in diverse communities.

• You’re enthusiastic about young people realising their ideas and driving change.

• You care about creating safe and welcoming environments where young people can thrive.

• You’re great at organising, managing your time and prioritising.

• You're passionate about solving problems, no matter if they're big or small; and have a strong mindset of getting things done.

• You have brilliant people skills and work well on your own and as part of a team.

• You have great communication skills (verbal and written), especially when it comes to getting people involved, creating reports and demonstrating impact.  

• You actively identify opportunities and improvements.

View the full job pack here.

Next steps

All you need to do is start the process by clicking on the yellow button on the top right.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to an interview in Southampton in June (likely to be either 16th, 21st or 23rd).

Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process we'll share how well you performed.

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.