We currently have the following positions available:
Carnegie UK is excited to be recruiting two new roles to join our policy team, focusing on research and data.
Senior Researcher (Research and Insight)
This role is for a new Senior Researcher (Research and Insight). For this role we are looking for someone with demonstrable research experience who is likely to be a mixed methods researcher with experience of qualitative and quantitative research to join our team.
Hybrid role: Dunfermline and home-based
Starting salary: £40,788
The main functions of this role are:
- To bring high quality research skills to Carnegie UK’s portfolio of policy programmes that aim to improve collective wellbeing across the UK and Ireland. This will include a range of research, analysis and insight generation activities and will involve using survey data and qualitative techniques to help find the ‘what’ and ‘so what’ in everything we do.
- Lead in synthesising the commissioned insight and drafting the research aspects of our annual suite of core Life in the UK reports as well as the production of additional added value outputs (such as topical deep dives) from our Life in the UK programme throughout the year.
- Proactively work with policy team colleagues to identify and answer the right research questions for our programmes to help build a compelling body of evidence to inform our policy and advocacy work in support of our strategy.
- Undertake qualitative research to bring additional insight to our programmes of work.
- Ensure a high level of quality assurance on all research outputs.
- Keep up to date with and provide thought leadership reflection on developments in the wider wellbeing research ecosystem, both in the UK and internationally.
Read more about the position, our flexible and supportive working environment and how to apply in our candidate pack. Please complete the Diversity Monitoring Form if you apply for this role.
Closing date: Monday 27th January at 5pm.
Senior Researcher (Data and Insight)
This role is for a new Senior Researcher (Data and Insight). For this role we are looking for someone with the skills and experience to work across data sources and be able to generate insights around this to help us to build a compelling body of evidence and policy insight in support of these aims.
We are looking for someone with demonstrable research experience with a focus on data analysis to join our team.
Hybrid role: Dunfermline and home-based
Starting salary: £40,788
The main functions of this role are:
- To perform high quality analysis of datasets – both those developed by Carnegie UK, such as our annual Life in the UK programme and wider sources such as ONS and other large national and novel data sets – in contribution to our policy development and in support of delivering on our strategic aims. Helping us to find the ‘what’ and ‘so what’ for our work within relevant data sets.
- Lead on the data visualisation of our Life in the UK Index, working alongside the wider programme team to ensure we are presenting the data in the most compelling and engaging way possible.
- Proactively work with policy team colleagues to identify and answer the right research and data questions for our programmes of work in order to build a compelling body of evidence to inform our policy and advocacy in support of our strategy.
- Help to develop, deliver and contribute to programmes of work that improve collective wellbeing across the UK and Ireland. This will include a range of research, data analysis and advocacy activities but for this role will involve digging deep into large national and novel datasets to identify relevant trends, insight and patterns to share with the broader team.
- Ensure a high level of quality assurance on all data and research.
- Keep up to date with and provide thought leadership reflection on developments in the wider wellbeing research ecosystem, both in the UK and internationally.
Read more about the position, our flexible and supportive working environment and how to apply in our candidate pack. Please complete the Diversity Monitoring Form if you apply for this role.
Closing date: Monday 27th January at 5pm.
