Senior Insight Practitioner

**Do you have a passion for uncovering what truly drives human behaviour and turning insight into impact?**

**Are you skilled in qualitative research and ready to blend creativity with evidence-based methods to influence change?**

**Are you looking to grow your research career within a purpose-driven team leading behavioural change and insights across the UK?**

**The role**

We are looking for a Senior Insight Research Practitioner will lead and support the design and delivery of research, primarily qualitative though occasionally projects may have quantitative elements.

You will work as part of a fast paced, agile, creative organisation, to produce discussion guides, surveys, conducting primary research, analysis, reporting and shaping insight-led recommendations. You will be expected to drive and have access to a car. You will also be expected to travel to other ICE offices from time to time.

This role is a fixed term role up to 10th July 2026 with a possible extension. Role is Hybrid.

Salary Range: £28,000 - £32,000 per annum.

**Key elements of the day-to-day role**:
This role is a qualitative leaning, mixed methods role. You will join a high performing team and be leading or supporting the design and delivery of mixed methods behavioural insights and research projects. The role will involve:

- Developing discussion guides or logic-based surveys.
- Conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups in-person, by telephone and online with professionals, people and vulnerable groups. This will require some travel to UK locations to conduct face-face focus groups where required.
- Using ‘clean language’ questioning techniques and laddering to elicit what is driving behaviour.
- Leading or collaborating on the analysis of qualitative and survey data, including using thematic analysis and segmentation analysis.
- Developing actionable recommendations informed by behavioural insights and science.
- Producing outputs including publishable-level written reports, lay summaries and presentations.
- Presenting to and communicating with internal team, clients and wider stakeholders.
- Working closely with internal team, clients and wider stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of projects as part of a collaborative approach.
- Working on multiple projects at one time.
- Producing sales assets (e.g. blogs, case studies) to promote and sell our offer.
- Collaborating on writing tenders and proposal.
- Act at all times within the Company’s rules, policies, procedures and financial regulations.
- Observe and comply with employees’ obligations under Health and Safety policy and law.
- Support a progressive approach to Equal Opportunities ensuring that the Company’s commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision and employment practices are present in any work.
- Comply with all information governance policies and procedures at all times.
- Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and conduct.

**Essential existing skills/experience**
- Undergraduate degree in the social sciences or other relevant degree.
- Experience of or training on the use of Excel for the analysis of survey data. Including, but not limited to data tabulation and analysis of findings.
- At least 3 years industry experience of delivering mixed methods research.
- Experience of writing reports to a high standard in Word or PowerPoint.
- Experience of combining survey data with qual findings to craft a single report narrative.
- Ability to manage your own work and deliver across multiple projects.
- Excellent attention to detail and time management skills.
- A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn and grow.
- Comfortable with a hybrid working model (a mix of office and home-based).
- Experience in using Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other digital platforms.

**Desirable**:

- Master’s degree in the field of behavioural/ social science, health behaviours or other relevant degree.
- Data visualisation experience - demonstrable understanding of how to present data in an engaging way within a report or presentation.
- Strong understanding of qualitative research to understand behaviour and decision-making.
- Experience of having works published.
- Experience of process/ impact evaluation, logic models, theories of change.

**About us**

ICE is one of the fastest growing behaviour change organisations in the UK. We bring courage, energy, and ambition to equip & enable more organisations & people to move our world forward. To grow our significance as a leading behaviour change practice. By energising organisations & people to find the clarity, courage, & commitment needed to realise their full purpose & potential.

**Our Mission**

We are social activists driven to unlock your power, purpose and possibility, we are for people and planet.

**We Make Better Happen.**

We are a purpose-driven organisation; our ethos and beliefs are important to us. As a team we hold and practice three core character traits and set