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Leadership Skills Foundation, Remote
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Do you want to help empower young people with opportunities to develop essential leadership and life skills through research?
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Remote
£26,000 per year
Full-time
Contract (Fixed term contract to 31st July 2027)
Job description

Thank you for your interest in this exciting role.

You would be joining us at a time when we have launched our new identity as the Leadership Skills Foundation (previously Sports Leaders) in August 2023, alongside building a new 5-year ‘Evolve’ strategy. Having navigated the challenges of the pandemic, the organisation has naturally placed an emphasis in recent years on retaining and sustaining the existing relationships we have with the 2,500 organisations (centres) that deliver our programmes.

Looking ahead, with new programmes and partnerships emerging, this role will now play a significant part in helping us understand the needs of young people, allow more centres to be able to deliver Leadership Skills Foundation programmes, and broaden the audiences we reach. Over the next few years, we aim to create an adaptable leadership skill offer that will increase our reach to more young people, fully establishing the Leadership Skills Foundation as the trusted voice for essential leadership skills development.

Having recently secured a strategic partnership with Sport England, this role will play a key part in conducting the research activities that are required to inform the Leadership Skills Foundation, and the wider sector, to empower a more diverse range of young people with opportunities to develop essential leadership and life skills, regardless of their background.

You will be a valued Research Executive within the ‘Programme Delivery’ team and support the Research Manager to develop future accessible and inclusive essential leadership programmes. A key focus for the research will be to understand the needs, barriers, and opportunities to support underserved and/or under-represented communities and individuals into sport leadership opportunities and into the workforce.

This role will require positive and proactive internal working relationships to be created with other teams and colleagues to support organisational objectives and goals.

Main duties and responsibilities 

  • Support the research requirements of the Programme Delivery team’s strategic goals, and support research work across the organisation as required. This may include scheduling, conducting and transcribing interviews, cleaning data, coordinating focus groups, developing research tools and related tasks.
  • Help develop research approaches appropriate to address strategic goals.
  • Conduct both primary and secondary research using a range of methodologies.
  • Support the presentation of research findings, by helping develop clear, actionable recommendations, and compelling presentations.
  • Support the identification of new research and evaluation projects and approaches which address gaps in our current evidence base.
  • Foster collaborative internal relationships to drive a culture of research driven decisions throughout the organisation.
  • Support the building of relationships with external partners and funders and the communication of key findings where required.
  • Ensure all research activities carried out as part of the work comply with ethical standards.
  • Have an awareness of new research developments across the sector

Key Relationships 

Internal 

  • Line Manager: Programme Delivery Research Manager 
  • Departments: Innovation, Marketing and Communications
  • Head of Programme Delivery 
  • Local Delivery Lead 

External 

  • Strategic partners, including organisations such as Sport England.
  • Key local delivery centres
  • Partners engaged with research activities 

Skills, experience and knowledge 

Required/essential:  

  • Educated to degree level in a subject with substantial statistical or research content.
  • Familiarity with a range of both primary and secondary research methodologies, used to gather both qualitative and quantitative research.
  • Experience of contributing to research outputs or reports and making recommendations informed by findings.
  • Ability to build positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues and external partners.
  • Effective communication skills with the ability to present information confidently to a diverse range of stakeholders.
  • Strong organisation skills, ability to multi-task and work effectively in a busy team environment.Able to deliver at pace ensuring efficiency.Excellent listening and recording skills to effectively evidence the findings of research.
  • Understanding of ethical standards and practices in research
  • Complete and finish tasks independently and/or as part of a team.
  • Show competence with IT (including Microsoft Office).
  • An ability to travel across England is required. 

Desired:  

  • Experience of working in a relevant undergraduate or postgraduate research role, or working on a research project with a social impact focus 
  • An understanding of the challenges facing young people in the UK today, including systemic and cultural issues
  • Knowledge and understanding of at least one of the youth sector, grass-roots sports, or education sectors – including trends, challenges, and best practices.

Personal qualities: 

  • A confident, collaborative researcher that wants to make a positive social difference.
  • Pro-active with the ability to work on own initiative, collaboratively and independently.
  • Effective and confident communicator.
  • Adaptable to operational requirements with an openness to give and receive constructive feedback as part of a growth mindset.
  • A creative, problem solver with the ability to think critically and analyse a range of data.
Application resources
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Leadership Skills Foundation View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50
Posted on: 07 February 2025
Closing date: 24 February 2025 at 17:00
Tags: Education, Research

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