JOB
TITLE: Research Specialist
SALARY: £22-30k depending
on experience
REPORTS TO: Relevant Programme Manager
BASED: MK based with
UK travel
Background:
Under the
strategic direction of the Chair, Board, and Chief Executive, and in response
to our successful bids for EIF and National Skills Academy funding, Skills for
Logistics (SfL) is reorganising and building capability better to serve
logistics employers and achieve sustainability by 2014.
Key to the reorganisation is the intention to embed disciplines
associated with project and programme management into SfL culture and practise. The delivery of each Programme will be
through a number of projects – sometimes running in parallel, sometimes
sequentially, through the life of that Programme. Each project will need a
multi-disciplinary team to deliver it and these teams are likely to differ
between projects.
To meet this challenge, we will run with
a pool of in-house technical specialists in each of the following four
functions:
- Skills
- Research
- Implementation
- Administration.
One person from each project team will
be designated the Project Manager for the duration of the life of that project,
according to the main specialist focus of that project.
Job
Outline
You will be involved in several different research projects and
work programmes to which you will provide high quality research input and
analysis.
In practice this will include:
·
sourcing, processing, analysing and interpreting information and
data
·
producing reports
·
quality assurance/control of externally sourced data
·
dealing with queries from both within the organisation and outside.
Key Responsibilities and Outcomes
·
Identifying and obtaining the best key data sources available to
provide accurate and up to date information on the sector in order to underpin
the effective work of the Craft Skills and other groups.
·
Analysing, condensing and interpreting data sets from wide and
varied sources, both internal and external, using statistical software
programmes and techniques to produce meaningful findings.
·
Investigating data quality issues and proposing and supplying
solutions to enable insight to be obtained.
·
Using analysis to produce meaningful insight and conclusions into
skills development matters of the sector and making this available in a form
that can be disseminated to the sector in such a way as to deliver the impacts
identified in the EIF2 and other bids.
·
Highlighting key findings, trends and conclusions and communicating
these in appropriate, clear and innovative formats.
·
Presenting research findings in a way that internal and external
stakeholders can easily understand and use.
·
Identifying secondary sources of research, for example research
papers produced by other organisations, which contain useful information and
insights into the sector and preparing digests in a form that will directly
underpin the work of the Craft Skills and other employer groups.
·
Disseminating research results, insight and recommendations at all
levels to the relevant stakeholders using the most appropriate format in order
to deliver the communication impact promised in the EIF2 and other bids.
Peer Relationships
Other technical specialists across the organisation including:
Skills, Implementation, Administration and other Research specialists.
Skills & Abilities
· good
project management skills
· excellent
mathematical and IT skills including SPSS
· excellent
analytical skills
· excellent
writing and proof-reading skills
· ability
to investigate research, manage, interpret and present information
· excellent
accuracy and attention to detail
· good
spoken and written communication skills
· creative
problem-solving skills
· good
organisational and time-management skills
· the
ability to multi task and work well under pressure in order to meet deadlines
· the
ability to work in a team and independently.
Qualifications
·
Educated to degree level
·
A diploma or advanced certificate in Market and Social Research
Practice
·
Some knowledge of Sector Skills Councils and/or the UK skills
system
·
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a research role such as research
analyst.
It is an exciting time for Skills for Logistics
due to the work programmes we are undertaking. The organisation is currently looking to recruit a number of new positions. If you are
interested in any of these roles then please forward a covering letter and CV
in the first instance to the H R Manager
at
Skills for Logistics
unit 12
Warren Yard
Milton Keynes
MK12 5NW
or email [email protected].
Thank you
