Senior Research Officer - London, United Kingdom - London Borough of Camden

London Borough of Camden

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Starting salary:
£52,282

Job Level:
Level 5, Zone 1

Work Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Hours per week:36 hours a week, Full Time

Contract type:
Permanent

Closing date:
Sunday 3rd March 2024; 23:59

Interviews to be held:

TBC

Alternative flexible working options available / open to discussion

Anonymised Application - _in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias._

At Camden, we value and celebrate difference and encourage diversity in all respects.

Our diverse workforce ensures we represent our communities to the best of our ability and enables us to make better decisions.

Because of this, we want our recruitment process to be as inclusive and as accessible as possible and we recognise that requires us to be as flexible as we can whilst also preserving the integrity of a fair and transparent process.

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive by making our borough the best place to live, work, study, and visit.

We're not just home to the UK's fastest-growing economy — we're focused on creating a borough in which everyone can live a good life and nobody gets left behind.

We have a clear vision - to organise the right people and skills around challenges (like our missions) to deliver the best outcomes for Camden residents and renewal after the pandemic.

Camden has a proud, rebellious spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We're willing to be bold and try new things in the process.

But don't just take our word for it - you can read about some of the different people working in the Council.

About the Senior Officer Role

As a Senior Research Officer, you will work lead research projects, shape and build up the organisational capacity for research and evidence and conduct evidence reviews to help shape policy in the Council.

We're looking for a Senior Research Officer who is curious, analytical, creative and who wants to develop leadership skills and bring together different disciplines to work towards a shared goal, supporting the organisation in improving people's lives.

You will also be creative in bringing together different types of information to tell a story and flexible to change their approach as they learn, to test things out and adapt what doesn't work.

In this role you will be part of the Insight, Learning and Impact team delivering key products such as the State of the Borough report, quarterly corporate ILI reports, the Good Life Camden framework and data dashboard and other demographic data products, as well as developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks for Council priority work such as the We Make Camden Missions.

You will champion new and different ways of solving problems, promoting inclusive and equitable approaches, and creating a culture of continuous learning.

About You
You will have a first degree in social science or related field (including e.g. geography, sociology, health psychology) or equivalent work experience.

Postgraduate degree in related field or equivalent experience, such as considerable practical experience of gathering and analysing primary data and synthesising evidence from multiple sources.

You will have a creative, problem-solving mindset and be comfortable with working on complex ideas and issues where there's no easy answer.

You will have Data and Research experience which include primary data collection, social research methods, delivering evaluations, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.

The Senior Research Officer will report to the Head of Insight, Learning and Impact.

The postholder will need to work some part of each week in the office (5 Pancras Square) as determined in regular discussions with their line manager and project teams.

For more information about the role please refer to the job profile by clicking
HERE

Additional information
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_Optional:_ Book a chat**:

- to get a better sense of whether this role would be right for you, and to find out more about the work we do, you can book a chat with Michal Shinwell via this link.

It should clearly answer these prompts, in order:

Tell us about a time where you have led a qualitative research project, what approach you took, how you considered equity in the research, what the results were.
In this role, you will be working with a wide range of people and teams with different approaches to using research and evidence. What do you expect some of the main challenges to be, and how will you draw on your experience to manage these?
Tell us about a time you had to communicate complex research methodologies and/or findings to lay people, and how you ensured that research findings were clear and comprehensible.
Tell us about your experience and approach to managi