Field Interviewer

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

- 385908

**Salary**:

- £14,351
- FTE £24,137 Actual salary £14,351 (1144 annual hrs) paid pro rata. 22 hours work per week and varies dependent on business requirements. Plus mileage of up to 45 pence per mile.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Other
- Field Interviewer (National)

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- ONS - Surveys and Data Collection - Surveys

**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
Social Survey Interviewer

**Working pattern**:

- Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 2

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Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich

About 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?

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest profession in the Civil Service. ODP’s 200,000+ members work in a wide range of operational delivery roles across government, providing essential services that support and protect UK citizens at home and overseas. They help to make ONS a great place to work.

As a member, ODP supports you by providing learning and development opportunities, career pathways, tools and resources to help develop your skills and progress your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join a modern, innovative and inclusive Civil Service profession that sits at the heart of public service delivery.

**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.

This role will be a mix of visiting sampled addresses to encourage them to complete surveys as well as interviewing respondents in their homes.

We have vacancies in the following locations; Chelmsford, Colchester/Ipswich ; you must select one location preference. Roles will be offered in merit order, if you are the highest scorer then you will be offered a role in your selected location preference. If you’re not the highest scorer you will be placed onto a reserve list.

This role is not office based. You are required to work within a 40 mile radius (approx) of allocated location. Your work will be allocated to ensure that you can travel and complete your work within your contracted hours in this area. Therefore you need to consider how you will be able to achieve this based on your home location in comparison to your chosen location preference. If you are unable to achieve this your offer will be withdrawn.

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

To ensure that we reach respondents, interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 - 20:00 and there is a potential for admin and travel time outside of these hours.

Interviewers will need to work across mornings, afternoons, and evenings and are contracted to work Monday to Saturday, working on Saturdays if required.

**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. 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**:
**Including 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 Saturdays if required.
- Experience of using 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.

**Essential Requirements**
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