Research Assistant - EDIT

Organisation/Company: KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

Research Field: Literature Mathematics

Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2), First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country: United Kingdom

Application Deadline: 23 Feb 2025 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract: Other

Job Status: Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

About us

The Policy Institute at King’s College London works to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. Part of the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, we combine the rigour of academia with the agility of a consultancy and the connectedness of a thinktank.

This role sits within the Evidence Development and Incubation Team (EDIT) within the Policy Institute. EDIT works with organisations, including governments, charities and others to understand the impacts of their activities. This includes:

• Developing and refining interventions
• Developing logic models and theories of change
• Designing and implementing process evaluations to understand how interventions work in practice and how they are experienced by participants
• Designing and implementing impact evaluations to assess, experimentally or quasi-experimentally, the impact of an intervention on key outcomes
• Working with organisations to develop their internal evaluation strategies and the capacities and processes that facilitate embedded evaluation.

As an essential member of the Policy Institute, the Research Assistant will support the Evidence Development and Incubation Team (EDIT) in the scoping, delivery and research coordination of ongoing and new projects.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a three-year fixed term contract.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

• Training/experience in qualitative research methods.
• Training/experience in generating robust evaluation and research outputs.
• Familiarity with NVivo.
• Experience conducting literature reviews and/or rapid evidence reviews.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience conducting implementation and process evaluations of programmes in social policy areas.
• Experience conducting qualitative research with vulnerable groups (e.g. children and young people, people experiencing or at risk of homelessness).
• Experience implementing a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, focus groups, observations, and workshops.
• Experience implementing participatory methods in qualitative research.
• Experience in generating clear and concise research outputs for non-technical audiences.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service.

Grade and Salary : £38,482-£43,249 per annum including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 107709

Close Date: 23-Feb-2025

Contact Person: Hannah Piggott

Contact Details: Hannah.piggott@kcl.ac.uk