Senior Research & Impact Officer

Salary: £34,000 - 40,000
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Permanent

The research & impact function is crucial within this charity and they're looking to hire an additional team member.

As well as doing great work, our client is a wonderful organisation to work for - they are friendly, supportive, down-to-earth and collaborative.

Each year, our client reaches millions of children across the UK with books, resources and support to help develop a love of reading. Their work is really important - children who can read are far more likely to succeed in school and in life.

This charity's research and impact team works closely with colleagues across the organisation to develop interventions to get children reading, and to understand the impact of their work. They are an innovative team, committed to delivering and communicating high quality evidence and using this to drive change for families.

This charity conducts much of its co-creation, research, and evaluation work in-house, covering a broad range of approaches and themes. Some examples:
- Major national studies with families
- Evaluation of current and new interventions through creative learning approaches with families and partners (schools, local authorities, other charities)
- Longitudinal studies with vulnerable families.

As Senior Research & Impact Officer you'll be involved in the following:-

- scoping, managing and conducting high quality evaluation and research activities to support the charity's mission, values and strategic objectives
- supporting the communication and application of research across the organisation and with external audiences.

The role is challenging and varied - insight is key to the organisation's strategy - you will be much in demand.

This organisation is London based and you will need to be in the office two days per week.

We're looking for someone with the following profile and interests:-

- a wide ranging set of research methodology experience, ideally with experience in generating insight on important social issues and applying these to drive change.

- excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills - alot of the work produced is high profile and circulated widely

- you'll need to happy to work flexibly in a changing environment

- you may have worked previously in a research role for a charity, consultancy, government or public body

- and if you have experience (or interest) in working with vulnerable families that would be helpful.

Please get in touch if you would like to hear more or click Apply.

Salary: £34,000 - 40,000
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Permanent

NB: You must be eligible to work in the UK

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