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    Associate Director, Office/hybrid/remote - London, United Kingdom - Verian Group

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    Associate Director (Quantitative Research) – Evaluation Practice
    Full/part-time
    Permanent

    Verian (formerly Kantar Public) is one of the leading social research, evaluation, and advisory agencies in the UK. We have over 150 specialist researchers and evaluators, and an office in the heart of Westminster. We advise clients on public policy design, ground-breaking behaviour change programmes, and provide national statistics and longitudinal data. We work on high profile projects that lead to meaningful social change.

    We are now looking for an Associate Director, with strong quantitative survey experience , ideally gained within a social research agency.

    In this role, you will be working on high quality, mixed-methods evaluations , running high profile quantitative surveys for a range of Government departments , to deliver robust and impactful outputs to clients.

    This will involve project planning and research design, quality delivery and profitability management, as well as management of more junior researchers, supporting their work and development.

    You will have the chance to build your networks , through work with specialist partners from academia and other research organisations.

    Policy and programme evaluation is one of the fastest expanding areas in social research today. g drugs, anti-social behaviour, and violence against women and girls), education (e.g. with pupils, parents and adult learners), housing (e.g. reform of the private rented sector, investment in affordable housing) energy, environment and climate change (e.g. increasing homes' energy efficiency and exploring access to nature and impact on well-being).

    Manage and deliver strands of high-quality large-scale surveys for the evaluation practice
    Integrate quantitative surveys with a range of evaluation concepts and techniques, including (for example) developing and/or critically reviewing programme theories of change and applying quantitative impact evaluation approaches
    Develop research tools and supporting materials
    Liaise with clients to provide progress updates on your areas of project responsibility.
    Interpret and synthesise evidence across multiple sources (e.g. programme documentation, literature review, administrative data, survey data, qualitative research) to tell the story of your research and deliver sound evaluative judgements and actionable policy recommendations
    Actively engage with project budgets, to ensure working to time and costs.
    Contribute to business development and proposal development
    Strong experience in designing and managing primary research quantitative surveys, (online, face to face, telephone, push2web) from inception, through to design, fieldwork, analysis and reporting
    Capability to work independently and confidently leading on complex and flag-ship contracts and projects
    Highly organised, with a track record in delivering projects to quality, timetable and within budget
    Strong writing skills and PowerPoint design capabilities
    Capability to support on business development activities, such as writing proposals and expressions of interest
    Interest and/or experience in at least one of the following policy areas is desirable: housing, net zero, education, children's social care, crime/justice, and transport

    The diversity of our projects will give you a chance to develop professionally and personally.

    As well as your experienced evaluation colleagues, you will have the chance to work with a range of other teams, including our methods specialists (covering techniques such as RCTs, quasi-experimental approaches, participatory qualitative research and deliberative approaches, and face to face, post-to-web and telephone surveys), our behavioural practice, and data solutions experts.

    We believe in work-life balance, and we are committed to flexible working, remote working and operate a hybrid working model.

    We encourage applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

    We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.



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