Social Researcher Jobs

As Purposeful Ventures' Evaluation Manager you will work in a newly forming evaluation team, as part of a larger experienced and growing organisation, alongside inspirational charities and social enterprises to successfully grow and deliver systemic change.

Purposeful Ventures is currently developing a framework to better understand our impact as an organisation and our approach to monitoring and evaluation for our projects and portfolio organisations. This evaluation work is intended to allow us and the organisations we work with to learn, and to support internal accountability and decision-making.

You will have a crucial role in implementing our developing approaches to monitoring and evaluation to better understand and learn about our impact as an organisation and supporting our portfolio organisations to better understand and maximise the difference they make for young people. You will work closely with both internal and external colleagues, using your technical evaluation skills to provide evaluation support to our portfolio organisations, aligned with sector standards and programme maturity, to inform programme design, delivery and communication of impact.

Successful candidates will have demonstrable experience and success in evaluation roles. This may include research roles in a research agency or other settings designing and delivering robust evaluations for funders or the charitable sector.

Closing date: Monday 20th January, 9am

 

Communications Officer – AKU Society
Location: Remote (occasional in-person meetings/events) UK only
Hours: 30 hours/week (4 days)
Salary: £22,000
Reports to: Head of Patient Support & Welfare

The AKU Society, a UK charity supporting those with alkaptonuria (AKU), seeks a Communications Officer to raise awareness, engage our community, and amplify our mission.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and manage content for the website, social media, newsletters, and events.
• Plan and execute social media campaigns and monitor engagement.
• Collaborate with patients, families, and partners to share impactful stories.
• Support events and fundraising communications.
• Track and report on communications performance.

Requirements:

• Experience in communications or marketing (charity experience desirable).
• Excellent writing and social media skills.
• Creative, organised, and proactive, with empathy for patient challenges.
• Familiarity with tools like Mailchimp, Canva, or similar is a plus.

Benefits:

• Flexible working, training opportunities, and 4% pension contribution.

**Please note due the volume of applications for this role, if you have not heard from us by 3rd February 2026, you have not been successful in moving to the next stage**

Role description

 The Head of Social Value (HoSV) is HACT’s specialist subject matter expert on social value and impact measurement. The post holder will be able to clearly explain what social value means and have knowledge of a range of impact measurement methodologies and how they can be applied in different contexts.

The HoSV will ensure that HACT maintains its position at the forefront of social value and impact measurement thinking, constantly identifying areas for innovation and development. The post holder will also build and strengthen relationships with customers by providing quality social value consultancy, training and research.

The HoSV will have regular contact with HACTs strategic partner, SImetrica-Jacobs, ensuring there is 2-way dialogue based on market intelligence, understanding competitors and any other feedback which will positively support HACTs position in the social value space.

Working at the cutting edge of how social impact measurement is used within the built environment, the post holder will have an enthusiasm to lead new thinking and the ability to be flexible, adaptable and to thrive on the challenge of working in a developing area and work closely with the Head of Services and Head of Customer to develop the product map.

The HoSV will be the ‘go to’ person within HACT for social value and will represent HACT as an expert in this field in the sector.

Responsibilities

 • Be the subject matter expert for social value and impact measurement at HACT, providing guidance and expertise internally to HACT colleagues and externally to customers. This will involve leading on the development of guidance materials for implementing HACT’s Social Value Banks and measurement methodology and practice notes.

• Deliver social value services to customers at the right level of quality, ensuring customer needs are met.

• Identify opportunities to enhance HACT’s social value services, expand HACT’s Social Value Banks and provide more value to customers.

• Identify business development opportunities for social value services within the housing sector, built environment and beyond.

• Build and manage existing relationships with partners, Associates, and other stakeholders, working with these partners to support delivery, information flows, and engagement with customers.

• Continually keep own expertise up-to-date and current through market scanning and analysis and use this insight to support improvements to the HACT offer.

• Represent HACT with key stakeholders and at sector events.

• Stay abreast of issues in the social housing, built environment and health sectors, and feeding these into HACT work.

• Undertake any task that may be requested from time to time that may be consistent with the nature and scope of this post.

• Travel and occasional overnight stays across the UK will be required.

Skills and experience

Essential

· Minimum 3 years of experience working in social value and impact measurement

· Proven track record in managing and delivering research/consultancy projects to meet funders’ requirements, including to time, budget and quality expectations

· Experience of developing and delivering training that applies complex issues into everyday organisational and individual behaviours in understandable ways

· Experience of working with customers to design new projects and secure income

· Demonstrable track record of preparing successful project proposals, consultancy briefs, and/or funding bids

· Proven skills in writing for/speaking to a range of audiences to ensure impact

· Innovation and drive – the ability to independently spot and successfully curate projects that respond to emerging opportunities

· Excellent time management, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to tight deadlines whilst maintain quality

· Ability to work under own initiative, be flexible, and have a proactive approach to problem solving

· Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a range of audiences, stakeholders, funders and partners using different media

· Good knowledge of a variety of social impact measurement methods and confident in both qualitative and quantitative research methods

Desirable

· Minimum 3 years of experience working in social value and impact measurement

· Proven track record in managing and delivering research/consultancy projects to meet funders’ requirements, including to time, budget and quality expectations

· Experience of developing and delivering training that applies complex issues into everyday organisational and individual behaviours in understandable ways

· Experience of working with customers to design new projects and secure income

· Demonstrable track record of preparing successful project proposals, consultancy briefs, and/or funding bids

· Proven skills in writing for/speaking to a range of audiences to ensure impact

· Innovation and drive – the ability to independently spot and successfully curate projects that respond to emerging opportunities

· Excellent time management, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to tight deadlines whilst maintain quality

· Ability to work under own initiative, be flexible, and have a proactive approach to problem solving

· Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a range of audiences, stakeholders, funders and partners using different media

· Good knowledge of a variety of social impact measurement methods and confident in both qualitative and quantitative research methods

About HACT

HACT’s products, services, consultancy, and research helps organisations to:

• Calculate social return on investment with rigour using our Social Value Banks.

• Broker housing and health partnerships, demonstrate the importance of housing in delivering health outcomes and integrate housing into the delivery of health services.

• Measure impact, understand communities and demonstrate the value of community investment work through our insight tools.

• Provide a forum to network with partners to complement and strengthen success of delivery through our Centre for Excellence in Community Investment.

• Connect, share ideas and innovation, and develop sector specific tools such as the UK Housing Data Standards.

• Identify cost benefits, evaluate performance, and deliver strategic insights.

We are a deeply committed team, working with individuals and organisations who share our vision for impact, innovation, and collaboration within social housing and beyond.

We are looking to appoint a bright and ambitious new member of our research team. The successful candidate will carry out original research across a range of policy topics, potentially including pensions, competition policy, energy and environment and technology and AI. A background or training in economics would be desirable but not essential.

About the role:

As a researcher at the SMF you will:

• Carry out original research
• Undertake quantitative analysis, such analysing surveys and carrying out high level modelling
• Write (jointly and alone) reports, opinion pieces and articles
• Represent the SMF externally at meetings, events and in the media
• Lead and manage research projects from initial conception through to publication and launch
• Support the communication of our research through social media and other channels
• Be central to developing new policy ideas and thinking at the SMF

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for someone who can generate striking hypotheses, test them using the available evidence and explain their significance in a clear and compelling way. Ideally, we would like someone who is familiar and comfortable with economic concepts, methods and reasoning.

An ideal candidate will have the following characteristics, but we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet them all:

• Experience carrying out analysis and research through work and/or through your academic career
• Experience in undertaking quantitative analysis. Experience in handling large datasets using statistical software – such as Stata or R – would be desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent planning and organisation skills and an attention to detail
• Ability to work quickly and under pressure when necessary
• A keen interest in UK public policy and politics, and a commitment to the aims and objectives of the SMF

Benefits and working hours:

The SMF offers a contributory staff pension and generous holiday allowances.

Staff training and progression is important to us. We offer personal training budgets for staff members plus membership to Smart Thinking which provides online and in person training for think tankers.

Standard SMF working hours are 9.30am-6pm, Monday to Friday. We actively encourage flexible working and working patterns which are different to these hours. The appointee will be able to design their working week – in discussion with colleagues – to accommodate family commitments and other obligations.

The SMF is based in Westminster and the post-holder will normally be expected to work in our office there at least two days a week, plus any additional days required by the team, for example to attend in-person SMF events. Other working time can be spent at home or in our office.

About the SMF:

The SMF is a cross-party think-tank governed by a board of trustees that includes members of all major political parties, and non-partisan figures. This informs all of our work, which reflects our status as a charity committed to public education in public policy. We welcome applications from people of all political perspectives who are happy to put the pursuit of good policy ahead of partisanship and ideology.

Our mission is to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society. We achieve this through the development of high quality, independent and pragmatic public policy research and debate across a wide range of social and economic areas.

Do you have proven experience of leading qualitative and quantitative research projects, ideally relating to housing or social justice? Do you want an exciting, varied role that includes lived experience co-production, survey design, statistical analysis and more? Then join Shelter as Senior Research Officer and you could soon be doing research that spearheads our fight for home.

About the role
The main objectives of the role are:

• To plan, manage and carry out quantitative and qualitative research to support Shelter’s policy, campaigns and public affairs work, and provide research and data to support fundraising.
• To support colleagues across the organisation in identifying opportunities and developing projects which meet our research needs
• To provide effective line management

About you
We’re looking for an experienced researcher to provide project oversight and line management within our Research Team. You will be expected to have experience in researching social policy and a good understanding of the appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methods. It would be desirable – but not required – to have a strong awareness of the housing and homelessness research area.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits 
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team
The Research Team produces innovative research to understand the nature and causes of housing and homelessness problems. Our work helps Shelter develop great policy and high impact campaigns, as well as supporting the charity’s fundraising and service development activities.

We carry out primary and secondary research, both in-house and commissioned, with Shelter clients and the even greater number of people in housing need, many of which often don’t seek help. The team is externally recognised as the go-to organisation for credible, robust and insightful evidence and analysis on housing issues. And, as part of Shelter’s belief in the power of communities to effect change, we work closely with our campaigning hubs across England to support grassroots and lived experience-led research.

Any applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.

About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. 

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Role description

 The Research Programme Manager (RPM) is a key member of the HACT Services Team, with responsibility for successfully managing the delivery of research and consultancy projects across HACT’s Services portfolio. HACT’s Services portfolio has four key workstream, including: social value, health, data and housing and communities.

The RPM role involves the design and development of research and consultancy projects; set up and ongoing management of these projects; and effective engagement with HACT colleagues and Associates, partners and other stakeholders to ensure that work is delivered to a high standard of quality. The ideal candidate will bring strong programme management skills, interest in HACT’s areas of work, and a proven track record of managing research and consultancy projects throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

 Key responsibilities include:

• Leading on the design, set up, management and delivery of multiple research and consultancy projects across the HACT Services portfolio.

• Implementing robust project management processes and protocols, in line with best practice. This will involve routinely reviewing risks, issues and progress and taking actions as necessary to ensure minimum impact on project deadlines.

• Developing and implementing appropriate research methodologies, evaluation

strategies and research tools and analysis into research and consultancy projects.

• Leading on the production of high-quality research and consultancy project outputs, including formal outputs, informal progress updates to customers/partners etc, with input from the Head of Services and other colleagues as relevant.

• Providing support to project teams, including Associates, to ensure work is delivered to time and quality expectations, and within budget. This will involve coordinating and managing resources and information flows and ensuring quality assurance process take place on project outputs.

• Liaising with customers to set up and deliver projects, including leading on initial scoping work and development of project plans, progress meetings with customers and functioning as the nominated key project contact at HACT.

• Working with HACT’s communications team to develop powerful case studies, highlighting successful outputs and outcomes of the projects.

• Supporting income generation, in collaboration with other HACT staff, including contributing to research tenders and developing project ideas.

• Representing HACT with key stakeholders and at sector events.

• Staying abreast of issues in the social housing, built environment and health sectors, and feeding these into HACT work.

• Undertaking any task that may be requested from time to time that may be consistent with the nature and scope of this post.

• Travel and occasional overnight stays across the UK will be required.

Skills and Experience

Essential 

• Minimum three years of experience of managing the delivery of research and/or consultancy projects to meet funders’ requirements, including to time and quality
• expectations, within budget.
• Strong Project Management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and project teams simultaneously to tight deadlines.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, that ensure work is effectively prioritised to meet deadlines.
• Excellent time management, with the ability to work on multiple projects
• simultaneously and to tight deadlines whilst maintain quality.
• Ability to develop and utilise appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods and tools to support high quality research and analysis.
• Proven skills in writing for and speaking to a range of audiences to ensure impact
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a range of audiences, stakeholders, funders and partners using different media.
• Experience in developing research proposals and track record of securing funding.
• Ability to work under own initiative, be flexible, and have a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Understanding and application of a range of research methods, including qualitative and quantitative methods

Desriable

• Experience of working in the social housing sector, built environment sector, community sector, or voluntary sector.
• Understanding and application of different evaluative approaches, including process and impact evaluations, Theory of Change
• Understanding of social housing, build environment, community, health or social impact

About HACT

 HACT’s products, services, consultancy, and research helps organisations to:

• Calculate social return on investment with rigour by using our Social Value Banks.

• Broker housing and health partnerships, demonstrate the importance of housing in delivering health outcomes and integrate housing into the delivery of health services.

• Measure impact, understand communities and demonstrate the value of community investment work through our insight tools.

• Provide a forum to network with partners to complement and strengthen success of delivery through our Centre for Excellence in Community Investment.

• Connect, share ideas and innovation, and develop sector specific tools such as the UK Housing Data Standards.

• Identify cost benefits, evaluate performance, and deliver strategic insights.

We are a deeply committed team, working with individuals and organisations who share our vision for impact, innovation, and collaboration within social housing and beyond.

Senior Peer Researcher and Involvement Officer

The McPin Foundation

Type: Fixed term for 1 year
Location: Head office (Bethnal Green, London)/Working remotely

Salary: From £33,474 per annum FTE
Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Do you have a passion for mental health research with lived experience at its heart?  Would you like to support people to be involved in a range of mental health research studies?  We are looking for a Senior Peer Researcher and Involvement Officer to join our team and help us transform mental health research.

This post would ideally suit someone with well-developed research skills who is keen to develop further and willing to lead on projects as well as working with others.  The post holder will lead on writing reports, papers and potentially small tenders where needed, as well as and co-developing larger proposals.  They will also support other people with lived experience who work on an ad hoc or volunteer basis as their link contact and will facilitate and lead research involvement groups with adults and young people.  The post holder will work on a wide range of projects including with a neuroscience and biomedical focus.

Our team is committed to transforming mental health research through collaboration, inclusion and a belief in equity and anti-oppressive behaviour.  We strongly encourage applications from Black people, People of Colour, people who are LGBTQIA+, those with a disability and those who identify themselves in marginalised groups, as well as people with lived experience of mental health issues.

We offer benefits including a competitive salary, hybrid/flexible working, a NEST Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, wellbeing support and mentoring scheme, an individual training budget and access to an Employee Assistance Programme and healthcare cash plan.

Please see the full job description for more information.

The closing date for applications is 14th January 2025 at 9am.

Interviews will be held virtually in the week commencing 20th January 2025.

To apply please visit the McPin website to download an application form.

We are looking for a Senior Quantitative Research Associate within our Survey Coordination Centre in our Service Delivery team. You will need demonstrable quantitative research experience with skills in questionnaire design, research methods, and data handling analysis and reporting. You will also need demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining relationships with clients, as well as excellent project management skills. Experience of supervising others is also important for this role.

Salary: £40,708 - £46,523 per annum

Contract period: Fixed term contract - February 2025 - April 2026

Job Type: Full time (37.5 hours)

Reporting to: Research Manager

Team: Service Delivery

Location: Oxford / hybrid working (up to full time from home)

In this role you will lead on specific survey research projects. This includes contributing to the design and testing of survey methods and questions as well as project management of the survey process and cleaning and management of survey data. You will also engage with and disseminate results to various audiences. You will also supervise one or more Research Associates.

In this role you will:

• Plan, manage and deliver a range of projects using a variety of survey methodologies
• Build and maintain relationships with new and existing clients and other external stakeholders
• Design surveys, tools and methodologies, collating, managing and checking very large data sets
• Assist in preparing proposals, tenders and quotations
• Produce written and numeric outputs
• Monitor project costs and expenditure
• Provide day to day supervision to one or more Research Associates

About you

You will have:

• Extensive quantitative research experience with skills in questionnaire design, research methods, and data handling, analysis and reporting
• Familiarity with and understanding of the core principles of both quantitative and qualitative research (i.e. understanding of the key considerations when selecting and developing a methodological approach to a question)
• Knowledge and understanding of the variety of survey methodologies available to collect data
• Knowledge and understanding of probability sampling methods for statistical sample surveys
• Excellent project management skills with a track record in undertaking and managing survey research projects
• Ability to collate, analyse and interpret large volumes of qualitative and quantitative data
• Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with clients, external stakeholders, collaborators or partners
• Competent user of statistical software packages (e.g. SPSS, Stata, R, or SAS)
• Demonstrable supervisory or line management skills
• Excellent customer service skills in a business environment
• Empathy with Picker and its aims
• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience

This is a summary of the job description. Please review the full job description below.

About Picker Institute Europe

Picker is an Oxford-based charity with an international reputation as a key authority in the measurement and improvement of patient experience. Our mission is to make person-centred health and social care a reality for everyone.

We evaluate the areas of health and social care that matter most to people, producing actionable and insightful results to drive advances in standards. If you are passionate about putting people at the forefront of healthcare services, then Picker could be the place for you.

Working with us

Here at Picker, we believe in treating our people well; from excellent career opportunities to a positive, collaborative culture. We all work with a shared set of values that inspire us to achieve the biggest impact.

Working alongside colleagues who are experts in their field, you will be part of a team contributing to our vision ‘the highest quality person centred care for all, always’. You will contribute to our research with NHS Trusts and many high profile charities, such as The British Heart Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer UK and Mind.

To support you we offer a friendly, person centred working culture with many benefits including:

• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities, including flexible start and finish times
• Convenient Oxford location with free parking
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days, plus eight public holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
• Christmas office closure (currently an additional 3 1/2 days leave)
• Contributory company pension scheme (currently employer matching up to 8%)
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Free life assurance (currently 4 x salary)
• Tailored learning and development, including access to complete iHasco training library
• Health and wellbeing resources including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket loan scheme
• Regular calendar of social activities organised by a dedicated Social, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement team

Location: National Support Centre, MSSC NSC, 200B Lambeth Road, London, SE1 7JY (Hybrid Working)

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: £37,000 gross per annum

Closing Date: 27 January 2025

Application: CV & Covering Letter

Are you a data analyst, charity evaluator or social researcher looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Data Analyst to join our team.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Policy and Insight this role is a central part of MSSC understanding its impact and driving change across the youth and maritime sectors.

The Data Analyst leads on the coordination and delivery of organisation wide key performance indicators (KPIs) while working to support the organisation’s wider evaluation and research work. The Data Analyst is embedded into the wider organisation and there are exciting opportunities to support other staff and volunteers to access and use data, as well as understanding how to transform data recommendations into practical change. The role suits a keen analytical thinker, who revels in opportunities to collect and understand data and then see their recommendations bear fruit.

Responsibilities

The following is a list of the principal tasks of the Data Analyst and is not intended to be an exhaustive list:

· To gather correlate, and monitor relevant data from across the organisation (e.g. Westminster) and from external sources (e.g. ONS)

· To evaluate our existing data processes and make recommendations regarding the streamlining of data collection and presentation

· To develop and implement new data collection, and analysis systems and processes where required

· To lead on regular KPI reporting

· To support the head of policy and insight in developing evaluation processes across the organisation

· To support the head of policy and insight, in identifying, and collecting (including leading on elements of research independently) appropriate data for influencing work

· To provide practical upskilling, training, and support to teams and directorates who need to engage in self-serve data analysis and research

· To develop and utilise new ways to present MSSC data to engage key internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

· Experience of handling diverse datasets of varying quality

· Experience of translating findings from a range of different audiences both internal and external

·Understanding of how to process and analyse quantitative data

· Experience of appropriate processes around data security

· Experience of developing processes and procedures to collect and present data

· Experience of training in upscaling non-data experts

· Confidence in engaging with service users where required for data collection and analysis

· Confidence general database management

· Confidence in database administration

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack attached. 

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per annum, increasing with length of service
• Hybrid working
• Volunteering Leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire. 

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.

Who we are

Our mission is to shape a fairer future through better work. Our goal is a good society in which everyone can flourish through this new technological revolution. Our belief is that creating and sustaining good work is the best way to achieve this goal and ensure that innovation and social good advance together. 

Through delivering and convening research which informs the development of practical, policy, and regulatory solutions, we seek to address three core challenges: 

• Changing Work: The risks and rewards of transition are not evenly spread meaning that structural inequalities are increasing. 
• Shifting Power: New technologies are driving big shifts in power and challenging traditional mechanisms of governance and accountability at work. 
• Prioritising People: People’s lived experience, values and agency are being neglected in shaping futures of work. 

We believe good work can be an outcome of technological change, if, and when: government prioritises and creates; regulators steer and intervene; industry develops and models; civil society is engaged and informs; academia carries out research; and industry prioritises and requires. 

Role Overview
This role will co-create, develop and evaluate different governance tools, frameworks, methods and metrics for promoting Good Work through technological disruption and the innovation lifecycle. This will include approaches which involve, anticipate, mitigate and evaluate systems ‘in the wild’.

Working with the wider team the Researcher will deliver action-research projects which evaluate the impacts of algorithmic systems, supporting industry Learning Partners using a range of methodologies.

The successful candidate will have enthusiasm to work at the intersection of social, legal, technical and economic questions. Strong oral and written communication skills, and an ability to maintain respectful, mutually beneficial relationships with industry partners is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Advance the mission, goals, and ethos of our organisation
• Understand the importance of Good Work as an ethical and legal framework guiding the implementation of responsible AI
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with industry partners through action research projects
• Support, collaboratively conduct and lead high quality research, including survey research and analysis and action research projects
• Undertake and participate in additional research projects on workplace impacts of AI and AI governance
• Write blogs, research papers and reports and deliver presentations with an understanding of different audience needs
• Develop, lead and deliver training to professionals working in AI governance where appropriate
• Support the wider team in identifying potential funding opportunities and developing funding proposals and meeting funders
• Respond to relevant items of public policy, and engagement of our network at events
• Supporting and/or coordinate meetings, workshops, roundtables and parliamentary activities relating to workplace governance of AI
• Support the establishment and development of the Sandbox architecture through the drafting and revision of key governance documents and agreements
• Tracking and reporting to the relevant team/people on individual work that contributes to the impact of IFOW’s work

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of policy and practices relating to governance of algorithmic systems
• Applied or academic experience researching the social, economic, legal and ethical impacts of algorithmic systems
• An interest in the relationship between governance, political economy and job quality
• An understanding, through academic or professional training, of the basic workings of algorithmic technologies
• Good face-to-face communication and the ability to be at ease with people from a wide range of backgrounds
• A strategic mindset and the ability to offer and receive constructively critical feedback
• The ability to work both collaboratively and independently, comfortable with making decisions at pace and sometimes in a changing and uncertain environment
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to stay on top of many large and small tasks simultaneously, as well as a commitment to quality and attention to detail
• A strong commitment to the goals and ethos of IFOW

Location: London, hybrid. One day per week the team co-work at Somerset House.

Salary: £40,000-£45,000 per annum

Closing date: Wednesday 15th January 2025 at 23:59

Start Date: March 2025 (exact date TBC)

Contract: 1 year with a view to renew

Hours: Full-time 37.5 hours per week. IFOW offers flexible ways of working, and up to two months fully remote working each year, one of which must be in August.

Leave: 28 days + 3 days shutdown over the Christmas period

Radiotherapy UK (RTUK) is delighted to offer the opportunity to join its small and dynamic team as Policy and Research Officer. 

At RTUK, we believe that every cancer patient in the UK, no matter who they are or where they live, should have access to the best radiotherapy treatment available. We are the team behind national campaigns such as #CatchupwithCancer and #Radiotherapy4Life, delivering award-winning, high-profile campaigns that have informed parliamentary debates and policies, and highlighted key health issues in national media. Our charity provides trusted information resources for patients and the radiotherapy workforce.  We are a small charity, delivering big impact. 

As Policy and Research Officer, you will play a key role in advancing our advocacy campaigns through research reports, data analysis, and enhanced collaboration with key stakeholders. This is a new role, and we are seeking a diligent and dynamic candidate to work closely with our team and stakeholders to amplify our impact for cancer patients. 

Job Description 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the charity’s role the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Radiotherapy (APPG-RT): plan and organise events and meetings and maintain regular communication with members. 

• Monitor and research parliamentary developments, consultations, and legislation of interest to RTUK, producing briefings aligned with the charity’s objectives. 

• Conduct stakeholder mapping to identify and engage key political figures, including policymakers, parliamentary body leaders, officials, and advisers. 

• Maintain and develop RTUK’s current policy positions, and create new ones as required. 

• Collaborate with partner organisations to support the strategic development and delivery of campaigns and public engagement initiatives. 

• Foster and maintain relationships with key parliamentarians, staff, and partner organisations critical to RTUK’s campaigns. 

• Develop and conduct in-depth research and robust data analysis to inform policy and advocacy efforts. 

• Identify opportunities to capture data and case studies from RTUK’s service delivery to inform stakeholders and policymakers. 

• Produce reports and briefings based on RTUK data, research, and case studies. 

• Lead or contribute to joint policy or research initiatives with partner organisations. 

• Represent RTUK at policy and networking events. 

• Establish means of monitoring and evaluating activities, and produce regular, high-quality reports as required. 

• Collaborate with the RTUK team to enhance the charity’s social media and communication profile. 

• Build strong working relationships with RTUK’s team and volunteers. 

• Act as a positive ambassador for RTUK. 

Person Specification 

Professional Experience: 

Essential: 

• At least two years of experience in a similar role. 

• Strong interpersonal and networking skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders. 

• Experience developing research and reports to support policy and campaigns. 

• Proven ability to write engaging reports, briefings, and campaign materials. 

• Skilled in collecting and utilising data and case studies for research and advocacy. 

• Demonstrated success in policy and campaigning delivery. 

• Familiarity with the UK’s political institutions. 

• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage complex schedules. 

• Proven experience working and communicating remotely. 

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 

Desirable: 

• Knowledge of the UK health system. 

• Experience delivering patient-centred policy and campaigns for a health charity. 

Personal Attributes: 

• High personal integrity. 

• Ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision. 

• Collaborative and team-oriented with leadership skills. 

• Dynamic, solution-focused, and self-motivated. 

• Excellent relationship-building and people management skills. 

• Flexible and responsive to evolving circumstances. 

• Strong commitment to RTUK’s mission and beneficiaries. 

What We Offer: 

• 25 days of holiday per annum (exclusive of bank holidays). 

• Workplace pension scheme with 5% employer contribution. 

• A positive and supportive work environment. 

• Learning and development opportunities. 

• Flexible working approach. 

If you are an energetic and experienced professional with a passion for impactful health advocacy, we would love to hear from you. Join RTUK and be part of our mission to ensure every cancer patient in the UK has access to the best radiotherapy treatment. 

Closing Date: Friday 10th January 

Interview date: Friday 24th January 

Radiotherapy UK is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

Job Title: Research Coordinator

Service: Coram Impact & Evaluation Team

Reporting to: Research Manager

Salary range: £28,000 - £30,000 (or pro rata)

Work pattern: Full time or 0.8 FTE (for flexible working, including term time working)

Location: Flexible, with an expectation of working at Coram’s campus in London on average at least twice a week and at home the rest of the time.

Contract type: Fixed Term until April 2026 with possibility of the role becoming permanent. Start date: As soon as possible.

About the role

We are looking for someone with project coordination experience to join our growing Impact and Evaluation team as a Research Coordinator to develop and enhance the support function of the research team so that our research can help improve support for vulnerable children and young people, and ultimately make a positive difference in their lives.

This is not a research role but one focused on coordination and administration and would suit someone who is highly organised with extensive project co-ordination and administrative experience, preferably in a research environment. The Research Coordinator will be embedded in diverse range of projects, with exposure to a wealth of methodologies and approaches in research.

The successful candidate will provide wrap around support to the team and our portfolio of research projects by helping to manage their administration, including capacity planning and project allocation as well as organising research processes such as interviews, liaison with funders etc. They will also support financial administration and when needed bid applications, contracting and research dissemination. In addition they will work with our Research Ethics Committee and supporting the team’s work on ensuring equity, diversity and inclusion is at the forefront of our work. They will need to be flexible, pro-active, well-organised and willing to learn.

Working at Coram

As a valued member of Coram you will be entitled to a wide range of employee benefits including but not limited to:

• 25 days annual leave plus additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay
• 35 hours per week with flexible working around the core hours 9.30am-4.30pm

• Staff are signed up to one of two pension schemes.
• Opportunity to join our various staff networks including our EDI forum.

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career including five days of Continuous Professional Development per year with a dedicated budget for external training.

About the application process

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe diversity is a strength. Our aim is to make sure that Coram truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. Therefore we are very committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community. This includes those from global majority groups, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, and those with neuro-diversity. If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We will make any reasonable adjustments at the interview stage for applicants invited to interview to support them in the process.

Given Coram’s history with children’s social care, including adoption and fostering in England, we will provide a guaranteed interview for those that meet the essential criteria and tell us in their application that they are care experienced. Being care experienced means you will have spent time living with foster carers under local authority care, in residential care (e.g. a children’s home), looked after at home under a supervision order, or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Wednesday 22nd January 2025

We reserve the right to close this post if we receive a high quality number of candidates.

Interview date: Week commencing 3rd February 2025

Registered Charity No. 312278.

Policy and Research Officer 

Would you like to work in a dynamic forward-looking organisation as the Policy and Research Officer, where you can help to advance, promote, and maintain high standards of practice of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for the benefit of all?

Position: Policy and Research Officer

Location: Hybrid/London (in the office at least once per month on average)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full and part time hours considered

Salary: £33,824 per annum (FTE) (pro rata for part time hours)

Closing Date: Monday 20th January 2025

Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

About the Role

We are looking for a Policy and Research Officer who is passionate about mental health service provision in the UK, to join a vibrant and thriving team, working to build the psychotherapeutic evidence base in support of the public interest and the charitable objectives. This is a particularly exciting time to join as we have just launched our three-year strategy. 

You will be pivotal in developing and implementing the research and policy strategy, including campaigning to national policymakers to drive positive change in the mental health arena. To help to support and promote the research work of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.

Key responsibilities include:

• To assist the policy and research manager and wider campaigns team in their ongoing national policy and campaigning work, such as raising awareness of psychotherapy and improving access to psychotherapy.

• Supporting all aspects of policy, campaigning and public affairs work – including MP engagement, campaign design and administration.

• Leading on the devolved policy engagement work in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Building relationships with stakeholders within parliament, public bodies, higher education institutions and the wider mental health sector.

• Contribute to work to lobby Government, NHS England, local commissioners and other decision makers and stakeholders.

• Undertake desk-based research to support policy objectives, such as literature reviews and scoping research.

• To support appropriate research projects, including collecting and analysing survey data.

• Provide administrative support to the organisation’s research committees.

• To assist in the organisation’s advocacy work on behalf of members and services.

• Produce written briefings, publications and other materials that communicate complex messages clearly and effectively to different audiences.

• To provide policy and research input to support the delivery of the organisation’s strategy.

About You

This is a role for an individual who is open to new ideas, who is motivational and pragmatic. You will enjoy the opportunity to support an important cause where there is a growing demand in society for greater choices of high-quality mental health service provision. There’ll be scope for professional development as well as personal reward in working with autonomy in a small team and for an important charity. In short, it is an opportunity to make a real difference.

You will need to have the following skills and experience:

• A good working understanding of policymaking, public affairs and campaigning.

• An understanding of parliamentary procedures and how to influence the political and policy making process.

• Ability to understand and analyse information including research reports and legislation.

• Experience of conducting research in an academic context.

• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to write for a range of non-academic and academic audiences.

• Ability to engage and build positive relationships, including with colleagues from other organisations across the sector, and with higher profile stakeholders such as MPs and policy makers.

• Excellent ability to plan and prioritise multiple projects to meet agreed deadlines and targets, and ability to respond to tight deadlines and changing circumstances.

About the Organisation

The employer is the leading professional body for psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Alongside professional support for members, they are the leading research, innovation, educational and regulatory body working to advance psychotherapies, and emotional and mental wellness for the benefit of all. They represent training organisations and over 8,000 individual therapists - working privately or in the NHS or voluntary sector - offering a wide variety of psychotherapeutic approaches or modalities.

You may have experience in areas such as: Policy Assistant, Research Assistant, Policy Officer, Research Officer, Policy Lead, Research Lead, Policy Analyst, Research Analyst, Public Affairs Officer, Public Affairs Lead, Communications Officer, Communications Lead, Communications Analyst, Engagement Officer, Engagement Lead. 

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.