Project and Student Support Officer - Youth Education Service

Project and Student Support Officer - Youth Education Service

We are excited to be recruiting into our Youth Education Service (YES). The Project Support Officer is a key role for our small functional skills provision. This is a varied role, and duties include day to day tasks to ensure the smooth running of our learning centre, database administration and providing crucial support during busy exam periods. Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, 16 January 2026. We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritised ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience. If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.

Who are we?

We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people's lives.

How we work

At 1625ip our work is rooted in Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). Our Psychologically Informed Framework shapes how we build relationships, use our spaces, and support young people. This means we prioritise safety, trust, collaboration, and understanding the impact of trauma in every interaction. You don't need prior experience in PIE or TIP to apply - we'll support you to learn and develop these approaches in the role.

What you will be doing:

• Providing general administrative support to our YES Manager and a small team of YES Tutors.
• General tasks to ensure the smooth running of the YES centre such as Health and Safety checks and ordering stationery.
• Data entry and processing to support student related administration, invoicing and internal and external reporting.
• Administrative tasks to support during exam periods.

You will be in the YES team, and your line manager will be our YES Manager.

Contract details

• Hours per week: 15 hours a week, 2 days (0.4 FTE)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay: £26,824 - £28,142 (NJC scale 8 11 - pro rata based on 0.4 FTE)
• The location: Youth Education Service, Hide Market, Bristol. This role is mostly office based, with occasional working from home.

A few benefits at 1625ip

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus Bank Holidays (pro rata).
• Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF.
• Regular training and development opportunities.
• A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing.
• "1625 Independent People is an amazing organisation, and I feel very lucky to work here", Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2024.
• 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.
• Application deadline closes: 23:59, Friday, 16 January 2026.
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Monday, 19 January 2026 please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• Interviews are on Friday, 23 January 2026.

Application information

• You will be asked to answer five mandatory questions at the top of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
• Please note the online e application form cannot be saved, so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e form.
• Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to Kingsley Hall (our main office in Old Market). An online application will then be created for you.
• For support with your application, skills, training, and your career, Skills Connect's dedicated advisors can assist you.

Equitable opportunities for everyone

We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications. As an organisation who safeguards and promotes the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager.

We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer, and have made the Menopause Workplace, Mental Health at Work and Bristol Equality Charter pledges.

Please see our Policies section on the website for further information.