International Passenger Survey Interviewer

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

- 326201**Salary**:

- £6,441- FTE £22,699: Actual salary £6,441 paid pro rata- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- International Passenger Survey Interviewer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 12 month**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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- HolyheadAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you interested in a role based in the UK’s busiest Air and Sea ports? Are you friendly, outgoing and do you enjoy meeting and talking to people from all over the world? If the answer is yes, come and join our team.

The data you will collect impacts government policy. The International Passenger Survey is the largest, most authoritative survey of its kind in the UK. It has been providing data to a variety of organisations and government departments for over 60 years. Our clients include; Visit Britain, Balance of Payments, HM Revenue and Customs, Health Analysis and Pandemic Insights.

Visit Britain use our data to identify and monitor UK inbound tourism to help build a detailed understanding of global target markets and broader travel trends. No personal data is collected or stored. Our data enables Visit Britain to provide information & advice to Government and the tourism industry and monitor perceptions of Britain amongst visitors and potential visitors. Balance of Payments use the IPS data to record foreign resident spend in the UK and compare with UK resident spend abroad.

**Job description**:
You will be based at the Port of Holyhead and this will be considered your normal place of work.

IPS shifts are allocated on a 6 weekly basis with a mixture of AM & PM weekday and weekend shifts. Depending on your site, shifts lengths vary from 4 - 8 hours.

As an IPS Interviewer, you will work as part of a small team honing your interpersonal skills to persuade international arriving and departing passengers to participate in the survey. Some people take more persuading than others to take part, therefore you will need an adaptable interviewing style. The information you gather is entered into a tablet during the interview.

Flexibility in when you can work is a requirement of our business. Therefore, if you have any regular set commitments on any day of the week, this will preclude you from applying.

**Person specification**:
**Essential requirements for the IPS Interviewer role are**:

- For the IPS Interviewer role you must have a vehicle and a full, valid UK driving licence (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals).
- Proficient in the use of a tablet or smartphone
- Demonstrate excellent verbal communication skills and a passion for meeting and talking to people.
- Proven team player
- You must declare any unspent convictions and convictions pending (excluding parking offences). Do not give details of any conviction(s) that are spent under the ‘Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974’. Should you have any doubt as to whether or not a conviction is spent, you should seek advice from an appropriate person, e.g. a solicitor, the Clerk of the Court where you were convicted or a Citizens Advice Bureau.
- Be able to embrace the physical aspect of the role and adapt to a fast-paced working environment where you will often conduct an interview on the move. This will require the need to move through congested areas, negotiate flights of stairs and restricted areas with limited access, long walks at airports, and at quayside operation sites (where relevant to the post) to also negotiate busy car lanes

**Desirable Requirements/Criteria for the IPS Interviewer role**:

- Experience of working unsociable hours
- Experience of working with the general public

**Licences**:

- A vehicle and a full, valid UK driving licence (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals).**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £6,441, Office for National Statistics contributes £1,713 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy:
- Generous holiday allowance - pro rata based on 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service in addition to 9 days public holidays.
- Strong ethos of equality and diversity.
- Up to 3 days paid leave per year for voluntary opportunities.
- Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and statutory paternity leave of 2 weeks plus an additional week of departmental paternity leave all at full pay.
- Highly competi