PEER RESEARCHER
5 hours per week based at Newton Abbot YES Centre
Salary - £23,492 per annum pro rata
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, 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.
You can request an application pack (including the Application Form and Job Description) from hr@youngdevon.org or download by selecting the links below:
Job Description and Person Specification - Peer Researcher
Please submit your application form to hr@youngdevon.org
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.
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 committed to embracing diversity.
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.
