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SENIOR SOCIAL RESEARCHER
Liverpool
£30 - 35k plus benefits
Our client provides an outstanding range of design and project management services to a wide range of clients across:- Buildings, Civil Engineering, Environmental and Transportation. As their workload within transportation specifically continues to grow they are seeking to appoint a Researcher to work in the division which provides a wide range of technical, managerial and analytical services to their customers throughout the world. Their business maintains a diverse range of skills related to the complete life cycle of transport and market solutions.
Their need calls for a Senior Social Researcher to manage and work on quantitative social and market research projects in both the public and private sector.
In more detail the role will be to provide a focal point for an existing team dealing with a range of planning, regeneration and socio-economic issues. Whilst there is an existing core caseload, an essential attribute will be to develop existing and expand future client base and market new skills.
Responsibilities will include but not are limited to:
• Involvement in developing and appraising schemes, policies and programmes
• Project dependent, coordinate and manage a range of hard-to-reach stakeholders and public institutions,
• Present findings, justifiable recommendations and strategy to clients and colleagues alike.
• Involvement and direction on equality issues
• Provision of support on regeneration, public transportation, transport policy or socio-economic issues often linking with other parts of the company's business functions.
• Project dependent, control and implementing recruitment and design of working documents to be used in research
• Potential project demands may include developing qualitative research approaches, discussion guides or potential stimulus for consultations
• Willingness to offer expertise across the UK, linking with market research and transport planning teams as necessary.
• Wide-ranging project involvement including consultation exercise ranging use of in-depth interviews, focus groups and quantitative questionnaires,
• Assisting in the development of the company's market/social research presence regionally and potentially nationally.
• Becoming an integral support, and deliverer to an expanding and developing team.
It is expected that you will have a personal and invested interest in research projects as well as the ability to adapt to project variances and specific demands is essential.
The company are seeking a graduate in Geography, Statistics, Economics, Planning or Social Science ideally incorporating social research and statistics.
In addition to this you will have experience of designing and managing projects, as well as:-
• Practical work in the implementation of consultation & market research projects
• Practical work in experience of both qualitative and quantitative techniques
• Practical work experience involving sampling and statistical analysis
• Knowledge of consultation techniques and consultation working in either private or public sector with experience of advising team members on such matters.
• Ideally exposure to transport, public transport and re/generation issues will be of significant benefit.
• Ideally have experience in writing winning bid documentation
• Use of SPSS
You will be rewarded extremely handsomely with this leading group, who offer exceptional career prospects. |
