Insights Officer

Insights Officer

Job Description and Person Specification 

Job Title: Insights Officer   

Salary: £31,500.   

Contract Type: Full-time, 35 hours per week, although 4 days / flexible hours may be considered. 

Working location: Remote. This post holder will be based at home, with office visits approximately once a month, and department/organisational away days which will be discussed with Line Manager. The role may involve some occasional irregular travel to visit schools, attend events and represent Magic Breakfast at meetings throughout the UK. 

Reporting to: Evaluation Manager. 

JOB PURPOSE 

The newly formed Impact and Insights Team exist to provide research, insights and evidence; helping Magic Breakfast to achieve our mission of ending child morning hunger now and for good. The Insights Officer is an important role within the Impact and Insights Team, responsible for ensuring the organisation is kept up-to-date with the latest research and evidence, helping us to make evidence-informed decisions and enabling us to tackle child morning hunger now and for good. 

As well as keeping up-to-date with external evidence, the Insights Officer will be an integral part of delivering research and evaluation projects for Magic Breakfast – cleaning and analysing data, creating accessible and engaging narratives, communicating to stakeholders, producing insights and recommendations, and developing ideas for future projects. Our ideal candidate for this role will have hands-on experience in social research, including experience of undertaking data analytics and producing visualisations. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Undertake both quantitative and qualitative data analysis for research and evaluation projects, including cleaning and manipulating large internal and external datasets. 
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to create engaging and accessible outputs from research and evaluation projects including written reports, infographics, interactive data visualisations, videos and more.
• Play a leading role in Magic Breakfast’s horizon scanning by identifying external research evidence that could support achievement of our vision and feeding insights back to the organisation. 
• Develop and lead a regular internal ‘speaker series’, inviting partners and colleagues from across the sector to communicate research and evidence to Magic Breakfast staff.
• Good analytical skills, including an ability to clean, manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data with excellent attention to detail. 
• Ability to create engaging data visualisations that can tell the story of complex data is desirable. 

Please see job description for more detals

WHAT WE OFFER

At Magic Breakfast we value our employees and work hard to develop offer a supportive, respectful culture which enables everyone to bring their whole self to work. Some of our benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• flexitime and flexible working

• Pension contributions

• Long service days

• 3 additional days Christmas closure.

Please see Job pack attachment for details

APPLICATION PROCCESS

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Should you have questions about the role before applying please email our People and Culture Team, recruitment @magicbreakfast. com

Close - 3rd November 2024

Shortlisting - 4th - 6th November 2024 

Interview 1 - 12th all day / 14th Afternoon November 2024

Interview 2 and informal interview -  20th November