Co-design Assistant

Fixed term to 31st March 2015, Salary: £16,000)

The role is based within the Information Research & Strategy Directorate and provides support for Young Scot’s Co-design and Consultation function. Reporting to the Co-design Manager, you will support young people and organisations from across Scotland to gather views and co-design relevant and engaging services for young people. This is a key role in a fast, creative and dynamic team and is a real opportunity to be involved in making a difference to young people.

Key Responsibilities

• To assist with project managing Young Scot’s co-design and consultation work, including:
• Managing relationships with external organisations who are commissioning co-design work and consultations from Young Scot and to act as the main point of contact
• Working closely with Young Scot’s Outreach team to plan, design and manage accessible co-design and consultation events and activities
• Analysing the results of co-design and consultation projects
• Producing project reports
• Supporting the evaluation of co-design and consultation processes to support continuous improvement and best practice within Young Scot
• To support the Co-design Manager to identify where co-design and consultation with young people could improve across Young Scot’s products and services
• To support the Co-design Manager to further develop Young Scot’s co-design offer to external partners and agencies
• To provide co-design and consultation training to Young Scot staff as required

Interested? Find out more and apply here: http://youngscot.net/contact-us/jobs/co-design-assistant.aspx

Dear colleagues,

The Scottish Co-production Network now has over 500 members and our network has been active for over 4 years. We’re really interested in knowing a bit more about our membership to help us shape network activities in the future. Accordingly, we’ve developed a survey to help us gain a better of understanding of who are members are, what work they’re doing and how they think the Network is useful to them.

Take the survey here

The survey should only take about 10 minutes maximum and we ask that you please answer as many questions as possible. Feedback from surveys such as this really does help us in planning the future direction and activity for the Network and gives us a chance to demonstrate the vast breadth of interest in co-production from across the country. The survey will close on Friday 28th March 2014.

Along with our survey, we’re moving closer to the 3rd National Co-production Conference and we’re pulling together the details of the day. We’ve now nearly finalised the event workshops and have made special measures to ensure we can squeeze in as many as possible.  We’ll release more details soon and we think it’s going to be a great event – so don’t forget to register!

We’d like to thank you for taking a moment to contribute to the survey, registering for the conference and helping us shape the Network!

Kind regards,

Sam.