YCS | A Program of JRX Academy
National Leaders Council
The National Leaders Council is the youth leadership body that helps guide YCS priorities, action, collaboration and accountability. Roles are functional, not ceremonial, and they rotate so more young people practise real leadership.
The Council is being formed with the founding youth core. No members are confirmed and none are listed here until they are. The roles below are the jobs the Council needs done.
Runs the meeting, keeps the agenda moving, makes space for every voice.
Shares facilitation, steps in and learns the role by doing it.
Captures decisions, next moves, and who agreed to do what.
Leads one priority's action team and reports its next move.
Coordinates coverage, interviews, and publishing with the Media Network.
Brings in more young people, partners, and community voices.
Tracks openings — guests, resources, programs, jobs, platforms — and routes them to youth.
Roles rotate on purpose. Facilitating once is a skill; facilitating a second time after being recorded and challenged is leadership.
Youth-led does not mean pretending every decision is unlimited. These three bands are kept separate and stated out loud, so nobody discovers the line after the fact.
The decision is youth-owned. Adults support it; they do not overrule it.
Youth propose and shape it; an adult sign-off is required before it can happen.
Youth make a formal recommendation to a school, organization, or public body, which then responds.
YCS | A Program of JRX Academy
