User Research Officer

2 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom The National Lottery Community Fund Full time

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

- 276730**Salary**:

- £25,819 - £27,521**Job grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Social Research**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Exeter, Leeds, London, Newcastle-upon-TyneAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Are you passionate about User Research?**

We are looking for a permanent User Research Officer to join our Continuous Improvement Team in England.

**Job description**:
We are a friendly team and we work collaboratively with funding teams in England, and colleagues from across the Fund, to support our continuous improvement approach. We work with people to identify and implement improvements, whether they’re related to our funding programmes, systems and processes or our knowledge and skills. We are passionate about continuously learning and improving what we do so that we can have the biggest impact possible for communities across England.

This is a great opportunity for a user researcher who is passionate about understanding user experience and influencing change for both customers and colleagues within England.

This role will require a highly motivated person to design and lead on a wide range of user research. Some examples of the areas of research it may involve are:

- Understanding and supporting the improvement of our funding programmes, processes and internal grant making system.
- Targeted research with minoritised communities to better understand barriers to our funding.
- Discovery of user needs to feed into a Learning and Development plan.

**Interview Date**: Tuesday 25th April

**Location**: You can be based anywhere in England to ensure easy access to all of our England offices.

Our England offices are based in Birmingham, Exeter, Leeds, London and Newcastle.

We have a hybrid approach to working and more than happy to discuss your ideal working pattern.

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- Experience of planning/designing research that is appropriate, inclusive and ethical.
- Experience of how to use different research techniques to understand a situation or a problem.
- Experience of analysing data in various forms to create clear findings.
- Ability to connect and communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences, including when making recommendations/sharing insights.
- Values-driven and passionate about the Fund’s purpose.
- Ability to work flexibly and handle multiple competing priorities within a small team.

**Desirable criteria**
- A good understanding of grant giving/ not for profit sector and the customer facing services needed.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Interview Date: Thursday 25th April
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:

- Open to UK nationals only.**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Morena Shepherd
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