Field Interviewer

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

- 258010**Salary**:

- £12,607 - £17,192- FTE £21,204 Actual salary £12,607 (1144 annual hrs) or £17,192 (1560 annual hrs) paid pro rata. This is broadly equivalent to 22 or 30 hours work per week and varies dependent on business requirements. Plus mileage of up to 45 pence per mile**Job grade**:

- Other- Field Interviewer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 12 months**Business area**:

- ONS - Surveys and Data Collection**Type of role**:

- Social Survey Interviewer**Working pattern**:

- Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- South West EnglandAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Are you interested in a role where you have flexibility in your working hours, you get to meet new people from diverse communities and have a positive impact on your local community?**Job description**:
This is a great opportunity to join our team as a Field Interviewer working for the Office for National Statistics. As a Field Interviewer carrying out official surveys you will be helping to inform Government about the state of the nation.
Your role will be a combination of field visits to addresses to encourage households to complete our surveys, carrying out surveys in their homes and completing phone interviews.

We have vacancies in the following locations: Bath, Bristol and Swindon.

This role comes with flexible working hours that we hope will meet your needs as well as ours. You will be employed on either a 1144 or 1560 hours annualised contract which is broadly equivalent to 22 or 30 hours work per week.

To ensure that we reach respondents, interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 - 20:00. Hours must be split evenly across mornings, afternoons and evenings, with flexibility to work on occasional Saturdays if required.
Mornings - 09:00 - 13:00,
Afternoons - 13:00 - 17:00
Evenings - 17:00 - 20:00
There is potential for admin and travel time outside of these hours.

What we are we looking for?

We are looking for individuals who have a friendly, outgoing personality and the confidence to approach and converse with a wide selection of people either via phone or face to face. You will need to have excellent communication skills to be the face of ONS and, where needed, to persuade any reluctant member of the public to take part in our surveys and to be interviewed.
You will also be responsible for planning, organising and managing your own work loads, we will provide full training and support to help you with this.

**Person specification**:

- Person Specification and requirements of the role- Be able to transport and carry equipment such a laptop and survey materials with you, on occasion walk between addresses and navigate stairs when out in the field.
- Work approximately within 40 miles from the advertised location.
- Interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 - 20:00. Hours will need to be split evenly across mornings, afternoons, and evenings, with flexibility to work on occasional Saturdays if required.
- Be proficient in the use of a laptop and a smartphone
- To be self-disciplined, self-motivated and happy to work without supervision.
- Have excellent verbal communication skills and enjoy meeting and talking to people.

**Licences**:

- A Full valid UK Driving License (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals) is required for this post.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5000+ valued colleagues across the business.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached **(bottom of page)** will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

We are an organisation that takes well-being seriously and lives and breathes the desire to modernise the workplace of the future. Everyone, from our office-based colleagues across our office sites, to our field interviewers and airports and ports passenger survey teams, are part of a diverse and inclusive family.

**Inclusion & Accessibility**

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.In your personal statement you are required to answer the question below using up to 250 words.
- Describe an achievement you are proud of a