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Approx 1 day a week flexible (500 hours in total over the contract period)
Contract: 18 Month Contract, August 2021 - December 2022
16 years old to 20(ish)
DYS Space Ltd (SPACE) is an ambitious and innovative charity, driven by our values and seeking to support even more young people by developing current and new services. Our employees strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others. We value everyone's contribution and create safe spaces for exploration and growth.
We have an exciting opportunity to join us and become part of a team who work with young people, engaging in meaningful activities and programmes that seek to unlock their potential, give them a voice and positively shape their future prospects.
What you’ll be working on:
You will be part of a national project with a local team of young people who will be:
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Researching what causes youth violence by talking to other young people about it.
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Trying to understand more about what can stop violence affecting young people and their communities.
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Building a movement of young people, who want to have their say and change things.
About You:
You are 16-20 (ish), have real-life experience of how violence can affect young people, and are great at (or willing to learn to be!) these skills for the research project:
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Communicating with people – including people you don’t know.
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Working well together – supporting your teammates.
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Creative and skilful - writing/ interviewing/ film/ art/ theatre etc.
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Organised and thoughtful - facilitating/ planning/ analysing results
About the project:
This is an 18-month project running from August 2021 to December 2022, you will be paid for about a day a week but this could be quite flexible - a couple a day’s one week, nothing for a bit, then a couple of hours a week and will include attending a residential. The activities involved will evolve over the 18 months, but will include training, research, social action, change-making, preparing, and presenting to audiences.
As part of our ambitions to improve equality and diversity, we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under any of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.
SPACE is committed to Safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable groups and all applicants who will or could have unsupervised access to these groups will complete the required checks through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Interested? Please download the job description for the role by clicking on the above link. Visit our website: www.spaceyouthservices.org to learn and get a feel for our organisation. If you have further questions then please contact Lisa on 07590 639440.
To apply for this post please download and complete the supporting statement from the above link, and return it along with your CV either via email to recruitment@spacepsm.org or posting to DYS Space Ltd, 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 7EH
Deadline for applications is 2nd August, Interviews being held at Newton Abbot Youth Centre on 10th/11th August 2021 - these may be conducted by phone / video / online - method to be advised and dependent on the individual and restrictions in force at the time of interview