Current Vacancies
We’re growing — and we’re excited to be recruiting a brand-new Careers Guidance Manager to help take our work to the next level.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who loves delivering career guidance, thrives on innovation and wants to make a real impact on the lives of young people.
What You’ll Be Doing:
✨ Delivering high quality‑ careers guidance in schools and communities in and around Central Bedfordshire.
✨ Leading and supporting the careers team, ensuring our work meets best-practice standards.
✨ Managing our guidance delivery contracts
✨ Developing ambitious, innovative projects. Identifying growth, partnerships and new projects.
✨ Building strong partnerships with schools and employers
✨ Championing our mission to provide accessible, impactful careers guidance to all young people
We’re looking for someone who…
✔ Is qualified to Level 6 minimum in Career Guidance and Development and is an experienced practitioner of personal guidance.
✔ Enjoys leading, motivating and supporting others
✔ Loves working collaboratively and building positive relationships with our educational partners
✔ Is creative, proactive and excited to try new ideas
✔ Can balance strategy with hands on delivery
✔ Cares deeply about improving outcomes for young people
Why join us?
4YP is a social enterprise, specialising in career guidance, youth work and mentoring. We’re a small team who work from home when we’re not delivering in schools and community buildings, so the successful candidate will be a proactive and resourceful person, adaptable and self-motivated. This is a brilliant moment to join us — you’ll help shape our direction during an exciting period of growth. Your voice will shape our direction, your ideas will be encouraged, and your impact will be felt widely across our community.
Location: Schools across Central Bedfordshire and surrounding areas / home.
Contract: Full time/Part time hours available. Fixed term contract.
Salary: Dependent on experience. Minimum FTE £30,000.00
Interested?
If this sounds like the next step you’ve been waiting for — we’d love to hear from you.
Please email info@4ypuk.com for an application form and full job description, citing your preferred hours of work and salary expectations.
Deadline: Monday 16th February 2026 at 10pm
Interview Date: Tuesday 24th February 2026
4YP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and all roles are subject to our safer recruitment processes including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
To express an interest in any of our volunteering roles, in mentoring or youth work, please contact info@4ypuk.com for more information or to arrange an informal chat.
Pete’s feedback
“Working for 4YP is, to use an overused cliché, like being part of a very healthy family. Everyone puts everyone else first; the support, flexibility, and open and encouraging environment make it less of a job in the traditional sense and more of a vocation in a culture where your work is recognised, appreciated, and valued consistently.”
Pete – Careers Advisor / Youth Project Lead