Research Assistants

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Hours: 0.8 FTE (may be negotiable)

The National Institute of Teaching (NIoT) aims to improve teacher professional development through rigorous, impactful, and cutting-edge school-led research. Our research team plays a key role in this mission, as we work with our programme-delivery teams to test approaches to delivery and respond to the needs and questions of schools and our partner organisations in the education sector.

We are recruiting a team of Research Assistants to play a crucial role in the generation of high-quality and useful evidence on effective teacher professional development and system leadership. You will work alongside a team of Research Fellows and the Head of Evaluation and Observational research to conduct academic research alongside the NIoT programmes teams. There are 4 full-time roles available, with part-time options available. We welcome applicants with quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed-methods research skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to study and research tool design.
• Data collection.
• Data management and organisation.
• Data analysis and interpretation of findings.
• Support project management and coordination of data collection and analysis.
• Literature searching and synthesis.
• Support preparation of written outputs.

Essential Criteria

• Master’s degree study in education, social science, health sciences, business management, or other related field.
• Experience contributing to quantitative (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental, observational) and/or qualitative research design.
• Quantitative (e.g., advanced inferential techniques, sampling methods, and power analyses), qualitative (e.g., handling large amounts of textual data, iterative research design, thematic coding), and/or mixed-methods (combining and integrating quantitative and qualitative methods) data management and analysis skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• A commitment to the aims of the National Institute of Teaching.
• An interest in the education sector and a belief in the value of teachers and school leaders.

Desirable criteria

• Doctoral degree in education, social science, health sciences, or other related field.
• Proven interest and/or experience in teacher training and professional/leadership development.
• Experience working in or with educational or business/organisational management settings.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible and immediate impact on practice, and to use, and grow, your skills and expertise in working within a team conducting primary evaluation research on topics most relevant to teachers, educational leaders and teacher educators.

Key benefits available to all National Institute of Teaching staff:

• Flexible start and end working times (core hours between 10am and 4pm).
• Flexible working opportunities.
• 27 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 bank holidays) and membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme.

Other things to know:

• All National Institute of Teaching staff are subject to a check by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The level of check which will apply shall be an “Enhanced” level check.
• We regret that we are currently unable to sponsor visas.

How to apply

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Contact us

If you have any queries, please email e.turner@niot.org.uk.