Field Interviewer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 347112**Salary**:

- £13,496- FTE £22,699, Actual salary £13,496 (1144 annual hrs) paid pro rata, This is broadly equivalent to 22 hours work per week. Plus mileage of up to 45 pence per mile- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- Field Interviewer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- ONS - Surveys and Data Collection**Type of role**:

- Social Survey Interviewer**Working pattern**:

- Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- LowestoftAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Are you interested in a role where you have flexibility in your working hours, you get to meet new people from diverse communities and have a positive impact on your local community?**Job description**:
This is a great opportunity to join our team as a Field Interviewer working for the Office for National Statistics. As a Field Interviewer carrying out official surveys you will be helping to inform Government about the state of the nation.

This role will be a mix of visiting sampled addresses to collect household contact information and to encourage them to complete surveys online or over the phone, as well as interviewing respondents in their homes.

This role is home based. You are required to work within a 40 miles radius (approx.) of your allocated location. Your work will be allocated to ensure that you can travel and complete your work within your contractual hours in this area. Therefore, please consider how you will be able to achieve this based on your home location in comparison to your chosen location preference.

This role comes with flexible working hours that we hope will meet your needs as well as ours. You will be employed on a 1144 hours annualised contract which is broadly equivalent to 22 hours work per week.

To ensure that we reach respondents, interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 - 20:00 and there is a potential for admin and travel time outside of these hours.

Interviewers will need to work across mornings, afternoons, and evenings and are contracted to work Monday to Saturday, working on Saturdays if required.

**What we are we looking for?**

We are looking for individuals who have a friendly, outgoing personality and the confidence to approach and converse with a wide selection of people either via phone or face to face. You will need to have excellent communication skills to be the face of ONS and, where needed, to persuade any reluctant member of the public to take part in our surveys and to be interviewed.
You will also be responsible for planning, organising and managing your own work loads, we will provide full training and support to help you with this.

**Person specification**:
**Including requirements of the role**:

- Be able to transport and carry equipment such a laptop and survey materials with you, on occasion walk between addresses and navigate stairs when out in the field.
- Work approximately within 40 miles of the advertised location.
- Interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 - 20:00. Hours will need to be split evenly across mornings, afternoons, and evenings, with flexibility to work on Saturdays if required.
- Experience of using a laptop and a smartphone.
- To be self-disciplined, self-motivated and happy to work without supervision.
- Have excellent verbal communication skills and enjoy meeting and talking to people.

**Essential Requirements**
- Full valid UK Driving License (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals).
- Full use of a car for work purposes including business use (if offered a post).
- Proof of Identity
- Have a broadband internet connection at your home address prior to taking up an offer of employment

**Licences**:

- A Full valid UK Driving License (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals) is required for this post.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- There will be a question regarding your ability to use technology.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £13,496, Office for National Statistics contributes £3,589 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5000+ valued colleagues across the business.

We are an organisation that takes well-being seriously and lives and breathes the desire to modernise the workplace of the future. Everyone, from our office-based colleagues across our office sites, to our field interviewers and airp