Research and Insight Manager

Research and Insight Manager - Health Determinants Research Collaboration

Location: Leicester, LE3 8RA (Hybrid Worker, 1-2 days per week in County Hall)

Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 3rd March 2025

Interview Date(s): 17th and 21st March 2025

The County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, they also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. They are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Their aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Their employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping them deliver the vital services they provide to the people of Leicestershire.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the development of their Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC), which will help address health inequalities through building research evidence around the wider determinants of health. The Leicestershire HDRC is a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded research team led collaboratively by the County Council alongside partners from local universities.

They are looking for a Research & Insight Manager to help them develop their quantitative research capacity. This will include working with the HDRC team in the County Council and collaborating with their partner universities. You will join a team that will work to achieve their project milestones over their 5-year plan, with the goal of reducing health inequalities.

You will support activity across each of their six pillars of culture change; Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation, Data, Governance, and Infrastructure, Research Training and Skills Development, Collaboration with anchor institutions, Monitoring, evaluation and improvement, and Knowledge Mobilisation.

You will work with the wider HDRC team, local communities and universities to understand research priorities, design, plan, bid for and implement research, with a focus on quantitative methods.

Skills and Qualifications

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent in a subject with good numerical / statistical content and have completed a PhD relevant to public health or wider determinants of health and/or evidence of equivalent research experience.
• Have experience of research bid writing and delivering research results.
• Have knowledge of research techniques and methodologies, and experience in quantitative research methods for data collection and analysis.
• Have experience in assessing and summarising research through quantitative literature reviews e.g. meta-analysis.
• Have experience in dissemination of research findings to both academic and lay audiences.
• Have well-developed presentation, written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write concise and meaningful reports.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills to engage with, support and constructively challenge HDRC partners and managers across the Council.

To Apply

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