Research Officer

£23,440 - £26,044 pa plus London Allowance

Full time - 35 hours per week

Permanent

Based: Vauxhall, London

Closing date: Monday 19th April at 23:00

Interview date: To be confirmed

The Research Officer will be involved in the allocation of research funding according to best practice procedures for Marie Curie Research Grants, including peer review of grant applications.

The post holder will also be responsible for post-award administration of grants awarded previously and specifically financial management. This will include the management of post-award finances, the monitoring of research progress via annual/final reports and our open access publication fund. This role will be responsible for ensuring detailed financial records are maintained for each grant, payments are made on time and that finances are administered according to Marie Curie processes.

What we are looking for:
- Suitably qualified and/or significant experience in a similar role
- Superb attention to detail
- Financial Management skills, managing budgets, processing records and reconciliations
- The ability to plan and communicate is essential
- Excellent time management skills and able to meet tight deadlines
- Proven ability to manage own workload and work independently
- The ability to travel and work out of hours if necessary
- An interest in end of life care research would be beneficial.

What's in it for you:
- Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Continuous development
- Industry leading training programmes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Working

For more information or an informal chat please contact our recruitment team on in the first instance.

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

About Us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed, and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance, and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Summary

The Research and Data Officer will be responsible to identify potential donors and other key influencers who can help Diabetes UK achieve its strategic objectives. Working across the Philanthropy and Partnerships team they will conduct research on prospective and current major donor, corporate and trust supporters, produce profiles and due diligence screenings, in line with GDPR regulations. The post holder will support the development of the donor pipeline within the three areas of fundraising, producing reports and maintaining and monitoring a database of donors.

The Research and Data Officer will be integral to the Philanthropy and Partnerships team playing a key role to the development of the donor pipeline within the three areas of fundraising, ensuring data quality and monitoring a database of donors. Finally, you will liaise with colleagues across the organisation to produce reports and fundraising analysis, as well as supporting with the implementation of GDPR.

Interview Date(s): W/C 3 May 2021

Package

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan* (on completion of your probation period and if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme* (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

Main Responsibilities

Working with the Research and Operations Lead the Stewardship officer will support fundraising activities across the Philanthropy and Partnerships team by:

• Conducting prospect research to high standards, performing due diligence screenings, and supporting the team with moves management, prospect pipeline and donor development
• Ensuring data quality, maintaining a database of donors and being responsible for reports and fundraising analysis for the Philanthropy and Partnerships team.
• Ensuring current material held and activities performed across the team are in line with current data protection regulation and fundraising code of practice

Ideal Candidate

The best person for this job will be well organised with a methodical approach to work and will have:

• Excellent analytical and research skills with the ability to read and analyse significant amount of data
• Experience in conducting Prospect Research and Due Diligence screening
• Experience in working in a busy High Value Fundraising department
• A clear understanding of our audience and Major Gift fundraising
• The ability of working effectively with others, co-operating with colleagues and helping the team to achieve its goals demonstrating outstanding time-management and interpersonal skills
• Full IT literacy, in particular knowledge of MS Excel, the ability to use a CRM database and the ability to maintain information systems
• Full understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation and Fundraising Code of Practice

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

The Resource Hub Team, part of UNICEF UK’s Partnerships & Philanthropy division. delivers risk screening/due diligence, strategic writing, prospect research, and administrative support. While the current post holder carries out a temporary assignment with another team, we are seeking a Risk and Research Officer to join our team.

As Senior Risk and Research Officer, you will support our cross-organisational risk screening process for selected contacts and organisations, and you will undertake high quality risk-based research. You will provide research and insight on high level partners, advocates, donors and prospects to support the work of a variety of teams across UNICEF UK. The role will have a particular focus on Talent, including Ambassadors and High Profile Supporters.

To succeed, you will have proven experience of prospect research and/or due diligence as well as experience of a variety of research resources such as online databases. You will have excellent verbal communication skills, and the ability to write short and long research profiles to a high standard.

6 months Fixed Term Contract 

Part Time-21hrs per week 

Location: Currently homeworking. Our offices are based in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester 

Starting salary: £34,190 to £39,270 FTE ( Actual salary: £20,514 to £23,562 per annum) 

We are looking for a flexible self-starter who eagerly seeks new avenues for growth and pipeline development to join our Major Partnerships Team as our Prospect Research Officer. This new role is initially a 6mth fixed term contract focussing on responsibility of the delivery of wealth screening and then has potential of becoming a permanent role. 

As the climate emergency continues, Friends of the Earth knows we need to campaign more fiercely than ever to protect people and planet. As a global, grassroots organisation, we have a network of over 250 climate action groups in across England, Wales and Northern Ireland alone, each seeking to ensure bold decisions are taken at the local and national levels. To carry out our ambitious plans, we are looking to grow our income streams by creating stronger connections with our supporters.

The main purpose of the Prospect Research Officer will be to establish prospect research processes, helping colleagues across the team to identify and manage our donor pipelines. As our Prospect Research Officer, you will help to inform decisions on the prioritisation and make-up of donor portfolios and input into strategies for approaches. 

Solid experience of carrying out prospect research, developing and implementing a successful prospect research programme is essential. You will also need to demonstrate the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels. 

For more information, please refer to the Job Description. 

Closing date: Sunday 18th April (23:59) 

In return we offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement. 

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all. 

Prospectus is delighted to be working with a new organisation The Big Ask to recruit a Grants Research Officer who will coordinate their work, monitor impact and support effective grant making to ensure their funding has the maximum possible impact.

The Big ASK has been established to make and oversee grant funding to charities with a focus and expertise in the areas of education, training and mental health. Initially funded by the ASK Charitable Trust, grants will be allocated to organisations that we believe are best placed to increase their impact as a result of the donation.

The overall purpose of this role is to support the Founders, Trustee Board and CEO in an administrative capacity, respond to external queries and identify potential investors and partner organisations to approach. You will keep the Grant Management System up to date to ensure smooth running of the grant making process, including generating reports for investors and monitoring grants and monitor payments from investors and ensure monies are correctly allocate. Supporting the preparation of proposals and reports for investors, including collating research, conducting interviews and other meetings is also an important part of this role.

To be successful as a Grants Research Officer you will have experience working in the charity sector in a research capacity, be committed to tackling disadvantage and have a knowledge of impact monitoring, evaluation and reporting. You will also be comfortable working in a new and growing team and have an ability to communicate with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply, simply submit your CV. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and arrange for a call to assess your suitability and discuss the role further. Please note that the role may close earlier than the date advertised.

It is said that “money makes the world go around” but the global financial system in its current form is in danger of making our world a very inhospitable place indeed for future generations.

Though it has lifted many out of poverty, today the global financial system has an oversized impact on many of the existential challenges we face. Biodiversity loss is such an example, as is climate change and the growing gap between rich and poor in terms of both income and health. Investment, lending and insuring decisions can enable destructive and exploitative industries or they can support a transition to a more sustainable way of living and use of precious resources. The latter approach is known as responsible or ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investment.

ShareAction’s vision is of a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. Our mission is to define the highest standards of responsible investment and to drive change until these standards are adopted worldwide. We work towards our mission by:

• advocating for change in the investment industry using our research and rankings
• campaigning with allies to strengthen investor stewardship and change corporate behaviour
• pushing for public policy reform to transform the financial system

Position

We are looking for a Senior Research Officer to join our growing Financial Sector Strategies (FSS) team. Our team works towards holding financial institutions accountable for their impacts on people and planet by (1) researching the sector’s current performance and regularly publishing surveys, and by (2) engaging with each surveyed institution and providing them with detailed recommendations for improvement.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who is keen to scale up this area of work, with a particular focus on sharing leading practice examples and personalised feedback with the industry.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the FSS team to deliver its surveys by conducting research, supporting with questionnaire design, data auditing, analysis and report writing;
• Identify leading practice examples based on financial institutions’ responses and draft reports showcasing these examples;
• Create personalised feedback sheets and recommendations for each financial institution surveyed based on their responses;
• Organise, participate and take notes in survey follow-up engagements with financial institutions;
• Contribute to the development of a ‘gold standard’ for responsible investment, defining our expectations of financial institutions, through a combination of desktop research and engagement with key stakeholders;
• Draft responses representing ShareAction’s views on responsible investment-related topics to a range of consultations by policymakers, regulators, industry initiatives and other civil society organisations.

Please note that this list isn’t exhaustive and the role might change slightly from time to time.

Requirements

We are looking for a passionate, determined individual, with the following experience and skills:

ESSENTIAL

• Any kind of experience either working in the finance industry or corporate campaigning;
• An understanding of responsible investment and its implications for different types of financial institutions;
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail;
• Strong communication skills in written and spoken English;
• A passion for the work ShareAction does and for making change happen;
• Excellent organisational skills, proven ability to manage competing demands while still meeting deadlines;
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

DESIRABLE

• Knowledge and experience of how to conduct desk-based research;
• Subject matter knowledge in climate change, biodiversity or human rights;
• Advanced Excel skills;
• Experience of managing relationships with external stakeholders;
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office 365, particularly SharePoint;
• Experience of working with CRM systems, ideally Salesforce.

Other information

Hours: Full-time or part-time with a minimum of 21 hours per week.

Contract type: Permanent.

Salary: £26,000- £33,000 + 8% pension contribution (non-contributory) and benefits including a healthcare scheme.

Closing date: Wednesday 28 April 2021 (9.00am).

Here at Eden Brown we have an exciting opportunity to join a national health Charity as a Research and Data Officer.
As the Research and Data Officer you will be working across the Philanthropy and Partnerships team where you will conduct research and prospect new Major Donor, Corporate and Trust supporters. You will be instrumental in supporting the development of a donor pipeline in line with GDPR regulations.
You will be responsible for maintaining a database of donors and will be responsible for reports and fundraising analysis for the Philanthropy and Partnerships team.
You must have had some extensive experience in conducting research including new business as well as excellent analytical and research skills. Knowledge of GDPR is also essential.
Experience of using a CRM System is also desirable. If you are looking for a role where you are able to make a significant difference and drive this Charity forward, then this role really is for you!
Please note that this role can be home based, based in a hub office or from the London office. The closing date is the 29th April with interviews scheduled in for week commencing 3rd May.
For more information on this incredible role please call Laura Iliff on 01132207540 or email [email protected] .com.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

We are looking for a colleague to provide the research aspect of our campaigns on fair pay, analysing data on gender pay and bonus gaps, equal pay, CEO pay ratios and the wider issue of income inequalities. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that our data is accurate, updating our data dashboards,  About Inequality and coordinating our academic network.

Working under the guidance of the Executive Director, the Senior Research Officer (Income Inequalities) will be an integral part of our small busy team,  leading primary and secondary research, liaising with academics and policymakers in the field, as well as our local groups and supporters. We are looking for someone who feels comfortable engaging with a variety of stakeholders and supporting the team with research needs for campaigns, reports, media enquiries and events. The successful candidate will be able to work autonomously and consistently meet deadlines. They will be able to work within a small team, have an interest in, or knowledge of, social and economic inequalities, be confident analysing data sets, using statistical analysis and contributing to the comms and campaigning work of the organisation.

About The Equality Trust

The Equality Trust (TET) is the national charity that campaigns to reduce social and economic inequality to improve the quality of life in the UK. We are at the forefront of debates to tackle structural inequalities as well as supporting local grassroots groups to bring about change in their areas.

About the job

• Compiling, analysing and disseminating robust and up-to-date information and data sets on economic and social inequalities (including COVID 19 impacts, trends, drivers, attitudes and solutions) and curating the About Inequality section of our website and updating data dashboards. 

• Proactively monitoring relevant trends, progress and developments relating to inequality to keep expertise up-to-date within the team.

• Identifying and liaising with academics and experts with both learned and lived experience.

• Drafting reports and providing research for media and campaigning work and briefings.

• Assessing and advising on relevant external debates and proposals.

• Managing/commissioning and/or contributing to the production of research.

• Supporting the development of evidence-based policies.

• Writing and/or managing the writing of reports and articles. 

• Identifying, interpreting and/or analysing relevant information and data from FTSE company reports, LIS, ONS, academics, think tanks, NGOs, etc. 

• Monitoring and analysing the output of policymakers and other key influencers. 

• Responding to requests for data from the media, policymakers, Equality Trust supporters and local groups.

About you

Experience (essential)

• Experience of carrying out qualitative and quantitative research including research design, data collection, data analysis and presentation of data. 

• Experience of commissioning research. 

• Experience of communicating written information persuasively, constructively and in a manner suitable to a wide range of specialist and non-specialist audiences.

• Experience of engaging with a variety of stakeholders, including media, civil servants, NGOs, academics, etc. 

• Experience of compiling and summarising large amounts of disparate information. 

• Experience of analysing and interpreting large data sets.

• Experience of working with data to produce reports, update websites and briefings.

• Experience of organising roundtable events and webinars. 

Abilities and skills

• Knowledge of or interest in economics (macro or labour), business and finance and/or drivers of economic inequality.

• Ability to monitor and assess the output of FTSE businesses in company reports, academics, government, political parties, think-tanks and/or NGOs.

• Familiarity with the key current political, economic and/or social debates on inequalities and intersectionality in the UK. 

• Ability and willingness to work as part of a small team.

• Ability to plan and manage projects.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with meticulous attention to detail.

• Flexible and adaptable; able to produce high-quality work, sometimes at short notice.

• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude 

• IT literacy, including the ability to update websites and proficiency in the use of Excel. 

• Proactive with initiative, actively seeking information from internal or external sources as required 

• Good interpersonal skills, ability to persuade, influence and collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders, sensitive to their communications needs. 

• Deadline driven, able to remain calm in the face of several simultaneous deadlines.

• Willingness and ability to work flexible hours when needed for which TOIL will be given. 

• Commitment to the aims and values of The Equality Trust.

We recognise that the successful candidate may not have experience of all of the skills above and so we are willing to support training in areas that candidates wish to develop.

The International Development Policy and Practice team is a key delivery partner in ActionAid UK’s new strategy to promote a world where women and girls are valued, live free from violence, and can exercise their rights to promote their own economic empowerment, safety, equality and voice.We are now recruiting for a Senior Policy and Research Specialist, which is a key role within this team.

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

This role takes responsibility for supporting ActionAid UK’s strategic objectives in close collaboration with federation partners, academics all over the world and feminist partners.

The Senior Policy and Research Specialist will create policy products, which have been informed by ActionAid’s programmatic and policy work, therefore applicants must have the ability and flexibility to learn and promote new policy issues as required.

The post holder will develop and update policy work, and will work with advocacy, campaigns, communications and technical advisors to refresh, identify, prioritise and promote policy issues.

To succeed in this role, the post holder must have a deep understanding of women’s rights programming and how that can and should inform the policy agenda.

Successful candidates will have experience of networking and contact building in political, academic or NGO settings.

You must also have an excellent knowledge of development, including a strong understanding of power relations which shape relations between the global North and South.

We are keen to receive applications from those with proven research skills and experience, excellent writing skills and the ability to translate complex material and data into clear and concise materials appropriate for the intended audience.

 Applicants must have substantial experience of policy analysis and commissioning and conducting research on relevant issues gained in a public policy, NGO or academic environment.

They must also have proven experience of providing policy input and strategic analysis to joint policy and advocacy initiatives.

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, please apply for this challenging and rewarding role.

Interviews will be held remotely on the 12th of May 2021.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working.  We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants. 

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

Research and Evidence Manager

The Fostering Network

Salary: £28,014 - £42,021 plus £3,737 London Weighting, if applicable
Location:  Flexible
Hours: 36
Permanent

The Fostering Network is the UK’s leading fostering charity. We are dedicated to creating a better future for fostered children and young people. We bring together everyone who is involved in their lives, leading, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to make foster care better. Together with our members and supporters we are a powerful catalyst for change, and we’ve been shaping and influencing the fostering agenda for more than 40 years. 

We are seeking an experienced individual to develop and coordinate our UK wide research strategy. As a key member of our Policy and Campaigns team you will identify and analyse the body of research and evidence supporting good and best practice and help us make the case for policy change. You will have a wide ranging brief working with colleagues and the research community to identify research opportunities in all parts of the UK.

Experience of working in research; developing research programmes; engaging with service users in research and contributing to policy development from an evidence based perspective will be essential.

A commitment to improving the lives of children and young people of children in care is vital.

Closing date: 12pm on 26 April 2021

Interview date: 13 May 2021

Location of interview: Online

To apply please email your completed application to The Fostering Network. Further information and an application form can be found on The Fostering Network website.

CVs not accepted

The Fostering Network is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  The Fostering Network is a registered charity in England and Wales 280852 and in Scotland SC039338.

About the role

Carers UK has an exciting opportunity to join our Policy and Public Affairs team as a Senior Research and Policy Officer. This is a chance to join a high performing team with an excellent track record of campaigning for change and influencing public policy to improve the lives of carers. The work will involve designing and delivering research and policy projects, including supporting the delivery of our world-leading State of Caring research.  You would be using a range of different methodologies across issues as diverse as social care, employment, welfare and health. The role will include carer involvement and a particular focus on voices and experiences from carers that are harder to reach or seldom heard e.g. older carers, carers of different faiths, ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ carers.

About you

You thrive in a fast-paced environment and will be an experienced research professional. You will have a strong interest in social justice, with a desire to deliver change for unpaid carers.

We are looking for someone with excellent research and policy analysis skills; experience in designing and delivering research using different methodologies, carrying out interviews and focus groups, preparing reports, literature reviews and briefings.  You will also have experience of supporting responses to Government consultations and policy submissions; excellent communication skills; and ability to support individuals to take part.

About us

Carers UK is the leading national charity, supporting, advocating for and connecting unpaid carers across the UK.

With over 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK and 6,000 individuals becoming a carer every day the need to support them is growing and urgent. Unpaid carers save the country an estimated £530 million each day and are vital to the friends and family members they support, as well as to the wider community.

COVID-19 has dramatically affected carers across the country. Our recent polling suggests that the figure for unpaid carers could now be as high as 13.6 million, with 4.5 million people starting to care overnight due to the impact on coronavirus on services and individuals.

Contract: 3 year contract

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 27 April 2021 at 10.00am

First interviews will be held Tuesday 4 or Thursday 6 May 2021

Nest is the National Employment Savings Trust. It was set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save for retirement. We’ve since grown to become one of the UK’s largest schemes.

Would you like to use your behavioural research skills to make a difference to financial wellbeing in the UK and beyond, working with leading practitioners and academics? Can you make real-world behavioural trials happen, building strong cross-organisational collaborations and managing complex projects effectively? 

Your new team

Nest Insight is a collaborative research and innovation think tank. We’re working to understand the challenges people face in saving for their later lives, and to develop and test solutions to those challenges.

Although we sit within Nest and draw learnings from the rich set of data Nest is building, we also work across the industry with other providers, from pensions, banking, fintech and beyond. We share all our work widely to influence industry and policy makers in the UK and internationally.

We do this through an ambitious programme of research, trials, events and publications, delivered in partnership with academics, think tanks, government and the industry. Nest Insight has quickly become a leading and respected voice in the sector.  

Nest insight is a business unit of Nest Corporation, but we are responsible for raising our own operating budget through grants and sponsorship. We have a team of 11 working across research, communications and partnerships. This is an exciting time to join Nest Insight – we’re growing quickly with lots of exciting projects in the pipeline and plans to expand our reach significantly over the next three years.

Your new role

We are now looking to recruit a Research Trials Manager, with the expertise and ambition to manage an exciting programme of trialling activity, reporting to Nest Insight’s Director of Research and Innovation.

The Research Trials Manager will help shape our research trials under one or more of our active research programmes, including:

Liquidity and workplace savings: our new sidecar savings opt out trial

Supporting self-employed people to save for retirement: technology-based savings trials

This role will report to and work closely with the Director of Research and Innovation. It will also involve supporting and working closely with other members of the Nest Insight team, including reporting regularly to the Nest Insight management team, supporting the Head of Development with funder reporting and supporting the Communications Manager in building awareness of our work.

This role will be required to build strong relationships with and manage stakeholders across all departments of Nest and with external partners, including research collaborators and funders.

You

You will:

Be comfortable managing large and complex research projects involving multiple partners

Work effectively at different levels across different organisations, building strong working relationships

Have sound understanding and application of research ethics, data protection and information security principles

Develop high quality research trial design, research materials and data collection strategy; analyse the data and produce compelling reporting of the results

Communicate clearly, concisely and impactfully across a range of media with communication tailored to audience and objective

What you’ll need to succeed

This role will involve working across different project workstreams, so the ability to prioritise effectively and then deliver is essential. You will have relevant educational qualifications in behavioural economics or behavioural science, or equivalent practical experience. You will have an outstanding professional attitude and mentality, a sense of awareness and emotional intelligence and a commitment to team working, diversity and inclusion. You will be passionate about improving financial wellbeing and longer-term financial security for people on low to mid incomes.

What you’ll get in return

This is a rewarding role for someone seeking to develop a career in behavioural research, working with some of the leading academics and practitioners in the field of applied research into financial behaviours.

By helping Nest Insight deliver its research programme, the Research Trials Manager will be helping make a difference to millions of low- and moderate-income savers and contributing to a programme with a strong reputation and high profile across the public policy community and the pensions industry.

This is a 1-year FTC salary up to £48,000 plus Benefits which could be offered for anything between 3.5 and 5 working days a week depending on experience.

This role can be offered on a flexible basis and we will consider job share, part time or full-time basis. We are open to different level of applicants in terms of knowledge and skillset. We will consider offering up to the full salary budget on a part-time basis to more experienced candidates where appropriate.

Please state your preference on the application if you wish to be considered for part time or condensed working hours

Everyone wants a good work life balance and you will be working with a truly flexible employer, fully embracing a working from home culture and flexible working hours.

You will have your birthday and Christmas Eve as an additional bonus to the already fantastic holiday allowance and of course…a generous pension contribution.

What you need to do now

Please complete your application on our website.  Please note that you must attach a Cover Letter explaining why you would be a good match for this role.

Please note that due to a high volume of applicants we will only be able to contact successful applicants.

Application closing date is Thursday 25th March

Nest is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all the nine protected characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

To best serve our diverse customer base, it’s important that Nest has an equally diverse workforce and promotes an inclusive culture. This is in line with the organisation’s values and ensures that Nest is a corporation fit for the future.

Please note that we can onboard and work remotely successfully during this period at Nest.

Please note that this is a London-based role with flexibility to work remotely.

Spectra, with the Trans Learning Partnership (TLP), have an exciting opportunity for a Research Coordinator to join our dynamic partnership team (home working negotiable).

The TLP is a unique partnership of 4 community members, 2 academics at the University of Nottingham and Goldsmiths University, University of London; and 4 trans service organisations – Spectra, Gendered Intelligence, LGBT Foundation, Mermaids.

The ideal candidate will be suitably academically qualified, knowledgeable about trans issues, passionate about equalities, committed to working in an inclusive, collaborative and participatory style. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience of writing research grant bids.

This post is ideal for a researcher interested in the field of gender identity with some expertise in successful grant writing who wishes to increase their knowledge and experience in this area working closely with the trans community and senior academics in this field.

We value the importance of representation and seek to diversify our workforce, and so actively encourage applications from eligible BPOC candidates.

Please read the job description and use the application form on Spectra's website to apply.

Please complete the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form by Noon, 1st May*. We do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.

*This is an active recruitment. Spectra will review applications as we receive them and will interview candidates that match our requirements, appointing before the closing date if they are successful. Do not therefore wait to submit your application form until the closing date, but submit as early as possible.

What Works for Children’s Social Care is looking to recruit a Research Associate to work in our research team. This role will work particularly on the team’s growing portfolio of projects, including randomised controlled trials in children’s social care. This research aims to help us to understand how best to support social workers and young people in contact with the care system, from the point of contact and referral, all the way through to foster care and adoption.

Among other responsibilities, the role will include:

• Research design. The Research Associate will take the lead in designing robust evaluations to help establish the impact of interventions in children’s social care. This will include through experimental and quasi-experimental approaches.
• Research management and implementation. The research Associate will  manage the implementation of the research. This covers project management, participant selection and recruitment, data protection compliance, keeping project leads up to date, and escalating concerns as appropriate.
• Coding and statistical analysis. The research Associate will be required, with guidance and support, to conduct appropriate coding and statistical analysis to cover the live-cycle of a project. This includes conducting power calculations, randomisation, and then cleaning analysing large and complex data sets.
• Capacity building. The Research Associate will work with partner organisations, as well as internally within What Works for Children’s Social Care, to build capacity in research design, implementation, and analysis through collaborative working and through training.

While we would expect the Research Associate to take the lead on specific projects in these areas, they will also receive adequate support from Senior Researcher throughout each project.