Area Manager

Closing date: 4th June at 12pm

The successful candidate will manage the suite of Foróige services in Kerry, Clare, Limerick Region. This is a 3 year fixed term post to pilot a new model of working, to meet set targets and to consider further opportunities.

Foróige manages a range of funded projects in the region to provide educational and developmental services to young people in the area. This includes youth officers in projects funded by the Department of Education and Youth UBU, Tusla and Youth Diversion Projects through the Department of Justice with a focus on areas and communities experiencing specific disadvantage. These services and projects include identification and recruitment of targeted young people; establishment of group and individual interventions for targeted young people, recruitment of adult volunteers, youth leadership training, programme development, organisational development, consultancy, advice and information and school holiday programmes.

Included in the region are some volunteer-led services and pilot Irish Language initiatives which provide youth work through the medium of the Irish language.