Senior Research Officer

7 months ago

Belfast, United Kingdom VANRATH Full time

**VANRATH** are delighted to be assisting a Major Public Sector Client with the Recruitment of a **Senior Research Officer** to join their growing and dynamic team in **Belfast**.

Hours - mon-Fri-09:00-17:00

Salary - £65,051 - £67,024

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage one of the five RaISe teams, including responsibility for managing research and information demands and the delivery of evidence
- based research analyses and information products that support the companies legislative and scrutiny responsibilities.
- Effectively manage the team’s staff and resources including; planning and delivering the team’s forward work programmes comprising; the Executive’s Programme for Government, Committee inquiries, Private Members’ Bills, Executive legislation, plenary business and Member enquiries.
- Ensure RaISe service standards are met, business plans delivered within agreed deadlines and research and information products meet customer needs.
- Plan, balance and allocate team workloads through establishing workplans based on engagement with Committee Clerks, Company Commission management, departmental officials and/or MLAs regarding a range of issues, including; the Executive Programme for Government, the Executive’s legislative agenda, Private Members’ Bills, the Company’s Order Papers, Company Committees’ forward work programmes and MLA enquiries.
- Ensure good and regular communication with RaISe clients (Committees,MLAs and Senior Management) so that realistic targets are agreed and delivered.
- Proactively identify, nurture, forge and create appropriate networks to support
- RaISe service development through establishing links with government officials, external research bodies/communities, and other parliamentary library and research services.
- Identify cross team working initiatives for the RMT that enable multi-disciplinary research, address overloads in research demand and enable service improvement.
- Beyond the management of their research team, have lead responsibility for delivery of agreed RaISe initiatives implemented across the teams. These initiatives can, for example, involve the development and management of student placements, joint working with academia, international development work with other parliaments, joint working with legislative research services based in the UK and Ireland and the adoption of new digital technologies.
- Ensure through SRO review and team peer review that all outputs from the team meet RaISe standards of providing evidence-based policy/legislative analysis that is timely, impartial, non-partisan and fit for Company business purposes.

**Essential Criteria**:
**AND**

**2. At least 5 years’ professional experience as a researcher or professional**

**AND**

**3. At least 2 years’ experience of having managed research tasks, including managing competing, concurrent priorities and leading improvements.**

**AND**

**4. At least 3 years’ professional experience of making oral presentations based on their research.**

**Shortlisting Criteria**:
**Should shortlisting be required, the following shortlisting criteria will be applied**:
**At least 12 months’ experience of managing or leading a team in order to deliver a significant piece of research.**

INDPH

**Salary**: £65,441.44-£67,024.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- are you immediately available?, if not, how long is your notice?
- Please read the essential criteria and make sure you math the criteria?

Work Location: In person

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