Research Officer: European Affairs

5 months ago


Belfast, United Kingdom MPA Recruitment Full time

**Job**: Research Officer European Affairs

**Type**: Temporary

**Location**: Greater Belfast

**Salary**: £50,684 - £52,213

**Hours of work**: 37 Hours Per Week (Monday
- Friday)

MPA Recruitment are pleased to announce two roles available for Research Officers in the Belfast Area.

**Main duties and responsibilities of both the Research Officers are**:

- The provision of timely, accurate, high quality and impartial research and analysis to individual MLAs, Assembly Committees, and senior managers within the Assembly Secretariat.
- To retrieve, synthesise and analyse information from a wide range of regional, national, and international sources, including online databases.
- Responsibility for authoring Bill Research Papers that are published prior to the Committee Stage of the Assembly’s legislative passage.
- The production of a range of research outputs, including customised research papers, legislative analysis briefings, financial impact assessments, blog posts, data visualisations and digital dashboards. Research must be drafted to publication standard; be well written, concise, and accessible. Research conclusions can propose recommendations on ways forward for Committee and MLA consideration as required.
- The presentation of research briefings to Assembly Committees and responding to Committee members’ questions in public and closed sessions. Research briefings can include making recommendations on potential lines of questioning of Committee witnesses and departmental officials.
- Provide specific support to the legislative scrutiny function of MLAs, Committee Clerks and Committees including - supporting the promulgation of Private Members Bills, identifying potential witnesses for Committees, identifying key witnesses (e.g. academic specialists, scientific specialists) and assisting the Committee with round table stakeholder events (e.g. facilitating and reporting).

**Essential Criteria**:

- **Criteria for Research Officer (European Affairs) **_

**Applicants must, by the closing date**:
1. Be in possession of at least a second-class honours degree (or equivalent or post-graduate qualification), in which EU decision making was a key component of the degree.

**AND**

2. Following completion of the above, have at least two years of work experience of:
a) Conducting evidence based/policy orientated research requiring an understanding of EU decision making[1]; **and**

b) Producing and delivering briefings based on research requiring an understanding of EU decision making.

**AND**

3. Applicants must also have a working knowledge of EU information sources, including official EU databases.
- EU decision-making covers the ways in which the EU institutions adopt laws and other policy instruments

**Salary**: £50,684.00-£52,213.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Be in possession of at least a second-class honours degree (or equivalent or post-graduate qualification), in which EU decision making was a key component of the degree.
- Following completion of the above, have at least two years of work experience of:
a) Conducting evidence based/policy orientated research requiring an understanding of EU decision making ; and

b) Producing and delivering briefings based on research requiring an understanding of EU decision making
- Applicants must also have a working knowledge of EU information sources, including official EU databases.
- EU decision-making covers the ways in which the EU institutions adopt laws and other policy instruments

Work Location: In person


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