Research Manager - Social & Political Research.

An award-winning growing research agency, based in London, is looking to hire a Research Manager to join their social research team. This is a growth role to support new clients and business being won. This role will suit someone who has a strong background in social and public sector research, with a real passion for the area and is now looking to embrace a new challenge.

The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is a well-rounded researcher to work within a busy team on a range of ad hoc projects, with clear opportunity for progression.

You will have the chance to work on both quantitative and qualitative projects, from inception through to completion. You will be working on projects within the third sector, charity, local and central government, education and youth areas.

Key duties include:-
- Managing projects from start to finish, to ensure accurate and timely delivery of the results
- Liaising with clients, to keep them updated and understand their research needs
- Designing research programmes, that fit with the client brief
- Writing proposals and attending pitches, to help to win new business
- Writing questionnaire and topic guides, to fit collect the information
- Checking data and carrying out analysis, to pull out key insights from the findings
- Writing reports and then presenting the results to the clients
- Managing and facilitating qualitative projects, including writing discussion guides, carrying out depth interviews, moderating groups, workshops, analysis, reporting and presenting to clients

The Candidate
- Your experience working in a research agency, will have given you the skills and tools to hit the ground running in this environment
- Your experience and passion for working in the social and public sector, will enable you to quickly grasp an in-depth understanding of the clients and the type of projects you will be working on
- You will be comfortable managing a range of projects from start to finish, overseeing more junior team members and working closely with your clients.
- Experience in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies would be advantageous, although if you are a quant specialist you will also be considered
- You will have experience in writing proposals, reports and presentation and will be someone who thrives in a busy environment where you can work on a wide variety of project work
- Excellent organisational skills, project management and strong communication skills will mean that you can quickly build up relationships with your clients and enable you to deliver high level research and insight programmes to them

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