Youth Project Coordinator — Lines of Protest

30 hours per week | £20,982 per year (£26,228 FTE)
24-month fixed-term contract | Birkenhead + project venues
Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Help us uncover radical histories — and put young people at the heart of deciding how they are remembered.

We’re looking for a brilliant Youth Project Coordinator to join Comics Youth and help lead the day-to-day delivery of Lines of Protest: an ambitious heritage project exploring the radical, political and often overlooked history of British activist comics, zines and grassroots publishing.

Comics and zines have long been used by people pushed to the margins to organise, protest, document their lives and imagine something different. Lines of Protest will work with young people to uncover those histories — from LGBTQIA+ liberation and disability activism to anti-racist organising, working-class movements and other forms of grassroots resistance — and connect them with the issues shaping young people’s lives today.

You’ll coordinate a programme bringing together young people, artists, activists, archives, heritage organisations and communities through workshops, oral histories, archival research, exhibitions and creative activity.

Crucially, young people won’t simply participate in a heritage project designed for them. They will have meaningful opportunities to shape what we research, whose stories we tell and how those histories are interpreted and shared.

We’re not looking for somebody who already knows everything about comics or heritage. We’re looking for someone who is organised, thoughtful, values-led and brilliant with people — someone who can hold the practical moving parts of an ambitious project while creating the conditions for young people to have genuine power within it.

We especially welcome applications from people whose perspectives remain underrepresented across the heritage, arts and charity sectors, including racially minoritised people, disabled and neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+ people and people from working-class backgrounds.

Lived experience counts. Community knowledge counts. Skills developed through youth work, activism, caring, volunteering and creative practice count too.

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 16 October 2026
Interviews: 28–29 October 2026

👉 Read the full Job Description & Person Specification and find out how to apply:

If you need the information in another format, need adjustments to take part in our recruitment process, or would like to apply in a different accessible way, please contact richard@comicsyouth.co.uk.

Session Facilitator — Beyond the Margins

15 hours per week | £10,491 per year (£26,228 FTE)
Fixed term to 10 June 2028 | Birkenhead
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund

Help us build the kind of youth spaces we wish had existed for us.

We’re looking for a warm, thoughtful and values-led Session Facilitator to join our team delivering Beyond the Margins.

Beyond the Margins creates creative, affirming spaces for marginalised young people — particularly young people who are LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, care-experienced or otherwise underserved by traditional youth and cultural provision.

At Comics Youth, creativity is often the doorway rather than the destination. A comic, zine, game or drawing can become the thing that makes it possible for somebody to enter a room, meet another person, communicate something difficult or begin to feel that they belong somewhere.

This is a practical, relational youth-work role at the heart of those spaces.

You’ll work alongside our youth and creative team to help sessions feel safe, welcoming, accessible and genuinely shaped around the young people who use them. That could mean welcoming somebody who is anxious about coming through the door, helping a young person find a quieter way to participate, supporting creative activities, setting up spaces and materials, noticing when somebody needs additional support, or simply being the consistent adult who remembers what mattered to them last week.

We don’t expect you to be a professional comics artist. We care much more about how you work with young people.

Our practice is relational, trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming and neurodivergent-affirming. We recognise that participation does not look the same for everyone, and we don't expect young people to perform confidence, communication or creativity in one particular way to belong here.

We particularly welcome applications from racially minoritised people, disabled and neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+ people and people from working-class backgrounds.

You may have developed the skills for this job through employment, youth work, community organising, caring, volunteering, creative practice or your own lived experience. We’re interested in what you can bring — not whether your route here has been conventional.

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 16 October 2026
Interview date: Thursday 22 October 2026

👉 Read the full Job Description & Person Specification and find out how to apply:

If you need the information in another format, need adjustments to take part in our recruitment process, or would like to apply in a different accessible way, please contact richard@comicsyouth.co.uk.

Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring

We want Comics Youth to be a place where people who have historically been excluded from the arts, youth and charity sectors can belong, contribute and lead.

Alongside your application, we invite you to complete our Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form.

The form helps us understand who our opportunities are reaching, where barriers to recruitment may still exist, and whether we are living up to our commitments around equity, diversity and inclusion. It also helps us look critically at our recruitment practices and make them better.

Completing the form is voluntary. You can choose “prefer not to say” for any question, or choose not to complete the form at all. This will not affect your application in any way.

Your monitoring information is kept separate from your application and the shortlisting process. It will not be used to decide whether you are shortlisted or appointed, and recruitment panel members will not use this information when assessing your application.

We recognise that monitoring forms can sometimes ask people to fit themselves into boxes that do not fully describe who they are. Wherever possible, our form includes inclusive options, opportunities to self-describe and the option not to answer.

The information is used for equality monitoring and improving our recruitment practice, with reporting carried out in a way that does not identify individual applicants.

👉 Complete the voluntary Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form: