Researcher Qualitative

Role Overview
All our work focusses on understanding the challenges low
- to moderate-income households in the UK face, and exploring and evaluating potential policy and market solutions to those challenges.
In this role, you will work on one or more of the following areas:

- Understanding the impacts of precarious work and income volatility on financial wellbeing, including factors such as self-employment, zero hours contracts, caring responsibilities and disabilities and health conditions
- Building financial security and financial resilience, including considering current and future solutions, such as workplace saving, accessible loans, community finance and earned wage access
- Supporting journeys towards wealth and asset building including understanding the barriers and enablers to household financial growth
- Supporting retirement saving and understanding retirement saving behaviours, challenges and opportunities in context

**Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personalattributes required for this role.**
**Flexible and agile working**
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work from home (or a different location)
- work compressed hours
- job share

Directorate/Department Overview
**Nest Insight** is a public-benefit research and innovation centre. Our mission is to find ways to support people to be financially secure, both today and into retirement. We conduct rigorous, cutting-edge research, working collaboratively withindustry and academic partners to understand the financial challenges facing low
- and moderate-income households.We use these data-driven insights to identify and test practical, real-world solutions. Our findings are shared widely and freely so that peoplearound the world can benefit from our work.
Whilst our research programme began with a focus on retirement saving, we now take an increasingly wide-angled view of household finances and financial wellbeing. For example, this year we have been working with SUEZ, TransaveUK and a team of academics at Harvardand Yale to pilot an opt-out approach to workplace payroll savings (which has been hailed as a **‘remarkable trial’** and **‘the way ahead’**). We are about to begin an innovative large-scale, longitudinal UK household financial diariesproject
Organisational Overview
Nest Insight is a business unit of Nest Corporation, but we are responsible for raising our own operating budget through grants and sponsorship. We currently have a core team of 10 people working across research, data analysis, partnerships and communications.The team is passionate about the work we do and proud of what we are achieving. We are innovative thinkers, not afraid to challenge the status quo. We work flexibly, creatively and collaboratively. We are committed to supporting each other to learn and develop.This is an exciting time to join Nest Insight -we’re growing quickly with lots of exciting projects in the pipeline and plans to expand our reach significantly over the next three years.
**Diversity and Inclusion**
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme. If you need any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitmentprocess then please contact us:.uk.