Research Associate

4 days ago


Haywards Heath, United Kingdom Sightsavers Full time

Overview:
Sightsavers have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in statistics to join their Research team. We hold Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status from UK Research and Innovation and are looking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced individual to provide technical support to our quantitative studies, particularly cross-sectional surveys.

**Location**:UK/Hybrid
**Contract**:12 month Fixed Term Contract, full time
**Salary**:£38,000 - £45,000 dependent on experience

**Responsibilities**:
The post-holder will work alongside the research team and provide technical inputs into study design, data collection and management, and statistical analysis. They will also work with programme and advocacy colleagues to ensure complex statistical information is understood and used in policy and practice. Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex information is crucial to this role.

Skills and Experience:

- Postgraduate degree in medical statistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related field with a strong statistical component, or equivalent experience
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Training and experience in advanced statistical analytical techniques, particularly survey methods
- Experience of developing survey tools and managing large datasets
- Understanding of the key principles and governance of research
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate complex information effectively to a range of stakeholders both orally and in writing
- Experience of contributing to scientific outputs, such as peer-reviewed publications
- Proficiency in statistical languages appropriate for data handling and statistical analyses for example Stata, R, Python
- Experience designing ODK-based data collection systems using CommCare or similar platforms
- Availability to travel on planned visits, for up to 5 weeks of the year, in sometimes difficult locations, Covid-19 restrictions allowing.

**Desirable**

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

Next Steps:
Interviews commencing 4 September onwards. A two-stage process with a written task followed by a virtual interview. We reserve the right to close this ad early.

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In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.


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