RESEARCH MANAGER
EDUCATION
AGENCY
£37-45K
A growing and well-established research agency, based in London, is looking to hire either a Research Manager join their social research team to focus on Education. This role will suit someone who has a strong background in social and public sector research, with a real passion for the education space.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is a well-rounded researcher to work within a thriving team, on a range of ad hoc projects, with clear opportunity for progression.
Although predominantly quantitative in focus, you will have the chance to work on both quantitative and qualitative projects, from inception through to completion. You will be working on projects within the education sector. This will span all levels and areas including higher education.
Key duties include:-
- Managing projects from start to finish, to ensure accurate and timely delivery of the results
- Liaising with clients, to keep them updated and understand their research needs
- Designing research programmes, that fit with the client brief
- Writing proposals and attending pitches, to help to win new business
- Writing questionnaire and topic guides, to fit collect the information
- Checking data and carrying out analysis, to pull out key insights from the findings
- Writing reports and then presenting the results to the clients
- Managing and facilitating qualitative projects, including writing discussion guides, carrying out depth interviews, moderating groups, workshops, analysis, reporting and presenting to clients
The Candidate
- You have previous experience working in either a research agency, consultancy or clientside in a research function. so that you have the skills and tools to hit the ground running in this environment
- You will have a passion for the education sector and will be excited to work in this area.
- You will be comfortable managing a range of projects from start to finish, overseeing more junior team members and working closely with your clients.
- Experience in quantitative research is a must and any experience in qualitative would be a bonus.
- You will have experience in writing proposals, reports and presentation and will be someone who thrives in a busy environment where you can work on a wide variety of project work
- Excellent organisational skills, project management and strong communication skills will mean that you can quickly build up relationships with your clients and enable you to deliver high level research and insight programmes to them
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