Researcher Required
The Social Research Unit
Job Description
Job title: Researcher
Place of work: Devon based at Dartington
Salary: £19,621 pa
Hours of work: 35 hours Full time
Duration of contract: one year (subject to possible extension)
Job Summary
To work as a Researcher in a small team of researchers, service designers and disseminators providing support to all aspects of the charity’s work.
Key responsibilities
- To contribute to the routine production of data reports ad hoc analysis on intervention effectiveness and implementation
- To assist with the development of data analysis and reporting on intervention effectiveness and implementation
- To provide literature searches and conduct reviews and meta-analyses
- To assist with data collection, data management and analysis on epidemiology and evaluation projects
- To assist on new research projects
- To help prepare short articles for Prevention Action (www.preventionaction.org)
- To learn to proofread and comment on reports and articles for publication
- To help prepare supporting materials for seminars and training events
- To provide administrative support to the research team
- To assist with the smooth running of the charity
- To undertake any other appropriate duties to support the delivery of the charities projects
Person specification
Experience
- Good social science (or similar) honours degree at 2:1 or above
- Experience of working with or interest in children’s well-being and development
Knowledge/skills
- Knowledge of the research process
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research
- Interest in child development and children’s services
- Interest in applied research especially evaluation research (essential)
- Knowledge of multivariate statistics (desirable)
- Strong knowledge of SPSS and MS Excel including familiarity with SPSS syntax and intermediate/advanced MS Excel functions.
- Knowledge in epidemiology
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to think logically and be methodical
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to use initiative but to know when to ask for help
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to organise a varied workload
Personal
- Willingness to be supervised and receive feedback
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn
- Flexible
- Willingness to travel and spend nights away from home
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends
Note: After one year there is an option for the right candidate to study for a PhD.