Peer Researcher
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Job details
* Posting date: 06 October 2025
* Salary: £12.21 per hour
* Hours: Part time
* Closing date: 20 October 2025
* Location: Newton Abbot, Devon
* Remote working: On-site only
* Company: Young Devon
* Job type: Contract
* Job reference: 25-44
Overview
Peer Researcher (age 16-23) (Job Ref 25-44) • Salary - £23,492 per annum pro rata • 5 hours per week based at Newton Abbot YES Centre • Fixed-Term Contract until 31/03/2026
Are you a creative person with a passion for exploring thinking and behaviour?
This is a great chance to be part of our well-established team of Young Devon staff at the YES Centre, Newton Abbot. You will be part of a team working on making our town centres feel safer for all and placing young people at the heart of our communities by researching what makes young people feel unsafe in their local areas, understanding what can help to make young people feel safer, and by building a movement of young people who want to have their say and change things.
Closing date for applications: Monday 20th October 2025 • Interviews: Wednesday 29th October 2025 at Newton Abbot YES Centre
Please read the job description and person specification. If you then have any further questions about the role please contact Emily Sethi on emily.sethi@youngdevon.org to arrange a chat.
To apply for this role please request an Application Pack from hr@youngdevon.org or download from our website at www.youngdevon.org/about/work-with-us
Please submit your Application Form to hr@youngdevon.org
What can we offer?
Young Devon provides generous holiday entitlement from day one, not to mention our welcoming, kind and passionate workplace culture. We are not able to offer sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and embracing diversity. We are 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.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
This is a great chance to be part of our well-established team of Young Devon staff at the YES Centre, Newton Abbot. You will be part of a team working on making our town centres feel safer for all and placing young people at the heart of our communities by; researching what makes young people feel unsafe in their local areas, trying to understand more about what can help to make young people feel safer and by building a movement of young people, who want to have their say and change things.
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