Project management - you can manage projects from start to finish, use project management tools, proactively mitigate project risks, working as part of a multidisciplinary teams
Stakeholder management - you can work closely with internal and external stakeholders in project delivery, provide clear updates on project progress, prepare meeting agendas and action points, upwards management of stakeholders
Primary research including interviews, observations, basic data analysis, case studies.
Secondary research including critically appraising and summarising existing evidence on a given problem. You should be able to interpret common research statistics, critique research designs and evaluate the strength of existing evidence.
Solution development - help to devise novel solutions to problems, pilot or prototype these before implementation, and evaluate whether or not they worked using rigorous experimental study design
Quantitative analysis - we do not expect you to conduct highly sophisticated data analysis for this role but we do expect you to be familiar with quantitative methods and comfortable with interpreting statistical analysis.
Domain knowledge - get to grips with new areas, topics and contexts that the range and variety of your projects take place in.
Communication - disseminate the team’s work externally, which may include producing reports and slide decks for partners, writing blogs, public speaking, stakeholder engagement and leading new and creative ways to communicate ideas to different audiences.
Project ideation - supporting development of new work, including project idea generation, project scoping, research and writing bids and proposals.
Requirements :
Expertise in conducting qualitative research.
Experience of working for a consultancy, think tank or other fast paced research environment.
Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams making use of mixed research or innovation methods.
Facilitation skills, e.g. running workshops.
Excellent writing skills to tailor content to different audiences.
Visual communication skills (e.g. advanced PowerPoint, data visualisation).