YOUTH WORKER – MODERN YOUTH WORK PROFESSIONAL

Abstract

Summary. Reforming and decentralizing public administration in Ukraine requires introduction of new approaches and principles in the formation of youth policy, integration and implementation of youth work at all levels of government. One of the priorities of effective implementation of youth policy in Ukraine is development, integration and improvement of educational programs for youth workers, introduction of new forms, methods and tools of youth work. The purpose of the work is to analyze the features of the profession «youth worker» in the context of youth policy. The study used a set of general scientific methods: analysis of scientific publications to outline the essence of the problems of formation and development of the profession «youth worker»; analysis and synthesis – to highlight the features of the profession «future employee»; systematization and generalization of scientific literature, normative documents for formulation of conclusions based on research results. The scientific novelty of the work is that the study for the first time considered professions, whose responsibilities according to the classifier of professions include work with young people; normative-legal documents, acts regulating youth policy, youth work and features of work of the youth worker are studied; the peculiarities of the profession «youth worker» and its formation in Ukraine are highlighted; foreign sources on the formation and development of the profession of «youth worker» are analyzed. Conclusions: analyzing the features of the profession «youth worker», we state that the development of state youth policy in Ukraine is rapidly making adjustments and discovering new opportunities and needs in the field of implementation and integration of youth work. Such activities are impossible without highly qualified, knowledgeable professionals (specialists) who have the appropriate competencies.