Construction Lead

📍 Thamesmead & Lewisham, London (with some home working and travel across London)

💼 Full-time | 12-month fixed-term contract (with potential to extend)

💷 £38,000 – £42,000

Youth Build Ventures UK (YBVUK) works alongside young people who are furthest from opportunity, supporting them to build the confidence, skills and belief they need to shape their own futures.

Our work is trauma-informed, relational and rooted in community. We combine vocational training, leadership development, wellbeing support and hands‑on community activity to create meaningful pathways into employment and long‑term opportunity.

We are part of the global Youth Build movement, shaping a proven model to reflect the needs of young people and communities here in the UK.

As Construction Lead, you will shape how young people experience the construction industry — often for the very first time. You will lead all construction and technical elements of Youth Build programmes, ensuring delivery is high‑quality, industry‑relevant and grounded in real site practice.

You’ll be hands‑on in the workshop, demonstrating techniques, modelling safe practice, setting standards, but you’ll also be leading the wider construction strand: developing curriculum, overseeing accredited qualifications, ensuring health & safety excellence, and keeping our offer current and future‑focused.

This role is also about innovation and growth. You will help evolve and strengthen our construction offer — exploring green skills, retrofit, emerging trades and new approaches to training. As part of the global Youth Build movement, you will connect with construction leads and tutors internationally, sharing learning, best practice and ideas that keep our programmes ambitious, relevant and at the forefront of youth‑focused technical training.

Reporting to the Head of Youth Development, you will work closely with colleagues to ensure construction training connects seamlessly with leadership development, employability and employer progression pathways.

• Deliver hands‑on, practical construction training aligned to real site standards
• Plan and coordinate construction delivery across programmes
• Ensure training is engaging, structured and industry‑relevant
• Maintain high expectations around professionalism, conduct and work ethic

• Lead delivery of accredited qualifications (e.g. NOCN and others as required)
• Oversee assessment planning, learner evidence and portfolio quality
• Contribute to internal and external quality assurance processes
• Continuously strengthen curriculum to reflect industry standards and employer demand

• Integrate green skills, retrofit and sustainability into delivery where appropriate
• Keep training aligned with emerging trades and future workforce needs
• Connect with the global Youth Build movement, sharing practice and learning with construction leads internationally
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and growth of Youth Build’s construction pathway in the UK

• Lead on health & safety across all practical training environments
• Ensure workshops, equipment and risk assessments meet required standards
• Model safe working practices at all times
• Uphold safeguarding policies and maintain clear professional boundaries

• Work closely with Youth Development and Employer Partnerships colleagues
• Ensure young people are technically prepared for employer engagement and site opportunities
• Contribute trade insight to progression planning and live community projects

You are a credible construction professional who wants to pass on your skills and experience to the next generation.

You will bring:

• Strong practical experience in construction or a relevant trade
• A recognised teaching or training qualification (AET, PTLLS, Cert Ed, PGCE or equivalent)
• Experience delivering construction training and/or mentoring learners
• Knowledge of accredited qualifications and assessment processes
• Confidence managing health & safety in practical environments
• High standards,…