Research and Evaluation Officer

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom The Active Wellbeing Society Full time

**Salary**: £29,500 - £33,500 DOE

**Location**: Hybrid working to include Tyseley, Birmingham and home working and national travel when required

**Hours**:Full time 36.5 hours per week to include occasional evening and weekend working.

**Contract type**: Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity for a Research and Evaluation Specialist to join our Research and Performance department at The Active Wellbeing Society. Our head office is based in Tyseley (Birmingham) and we are offering this as a hybrid role, including working from the head office, across Birmingham and home working, with national travel when required. This role is responsible for research and evaluation across all areas of the organisation to support strategic and operational decision-making. This includes primary research (surveys, interviews, focus groups, participatory research etc.) and data analysis skills to produce recommendations and actionable insights to drive behaviour change, and adapt and improve our practice.

You should have experience of designing and leading mixed method research projects (quantitative and qualitative), using a range of tools to analyse and evaluate a variety of datasets and interpreting your findings into robust recommendations. You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to adapt these to different audiences. The role will support the Research and Insight Manager.

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference - whether at an individual level or more widely.

Main duties
- Design, manage and deliver multiple community-based research and evaluation projects.
- Use a range of research methods such as interviews, surveys, focus groups, case studies, participatory research, journey mapping, literature reviews, case studies and stories.
- Use a range of data analysis tools to interrogate mixed method research data (quantitative and qualitative) and produce robust findings. This will include the use of NVivo, SPSS and Microsoft Excel.
- Turn primary and secondary research findings into actionable insights, providing evidence and recommendations for problem solving, critical thinking, decision making and innovation.
- Identify, analyse and interpret relevant local and national data sources and evidence to provide actionable insights and contextual understanding.
- Use excellent written communication skills to produce outputs including reports, briefings, profiles, presentations and infographics, and tailoring these to a variety of audiences.
- Work collaboratively with the team, other directorates and stakeholders to understand their research needs, to implement research processes and procedures, in-line with organisational priorities and the needs of funders.
- Understand and adhere to information management policies, research ethics and governance legislation, including, data privacy and data protection legislation, including GDPR.

Knowledge, skills and experience
- Experience of carrying out community-based research using qualitative research methods, including, interviews, surveys, focus groups, case studies, participatory research, journey mapping, literature reviews, case studies, stories. (Essential)
- Skills and experience in cleaning, organising, manipulating and analysing data, data interpretation and data visualisation. (Essential)
- Experience of designing, delivering and managing multiple research and evaluation projects. (Essential)
- Experience of turning primary and secondary research findings into actionable insights and providing evidence-based briefings and recommendations. (Essential)
- Excellent written communication skills with experience in producing outputs including reports, briefings, profiles, presentations and infographics, and tailoring these to a variety of audiences. (Essential)
- Experience of building and maintaining strong working relationships, including working collaboratively with teams across an organisation and with external stakeholders (Essential)
- Knowledge and experience of information management, research ethics and governance legislation, including, data privacy and data protection legislation, including GDPR. (Essential)
- Experience and understanding of behavioural research, behavioural insight, and/or, the COM-B Model. (Desirable)
- Experience of sourcing, analysing and interpreting existing national and local data to produce trends and comparisons. (Desirable)

Staff benefits

We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:

- An

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