Peer Researchers - Young Devon (Job Ref 21-22)

An invitation to join us at Young Devon as our first…
*Peer Researchers (Job Ref 21-22)

Salary – Real Living Wage- £9.50 per hour
Approximately 1 day a week or a total of 500 hours over the contract. This is flexible and will vary according to the current project activities.

Based at Young Devon, Mutley Plain, Plymouth
Fixed-Term Contract until 31/12/2022*

We are looking for 16-20 year olds, with real life experience of how violence can affect young people. You will be part of national project with a local team of young people who will be:

• Researching what causes of youth violence by talking to other young people about it.
• Trying to understand more about what can stop violence affecting young people and their communities.
• Building a movement of young people, who want to have their say and change things.

Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) who is actively committed to embracing diversity. We particularly welcome applicants from areas under-represented within our workforce. Wheelchair access available

Closing date for expressions of interest: 10am on Monday 2nd August 2021 with interviews on 10th and 11th August.

If you would like to apply for this role, please email hr@youngdevon.org with your expression of interest on an MS Word document. This should include why you are interested in the role and describe what skills and experience from the outline of the role that you can bring to the project.

Please click on the below, which will take you to the full job description:
Job Description – Peer Researcher

If you would like to talk to someone about this opportunity, please get in touch with Emily Sethi on 07843 337869.

Young Devon 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