Research Analyst - Safety And Health At Work

RAND Europe is a not-for-profit policy research organisation. Our mission is to help improve policy- and decision-making through evidence-based research and analysis. We realise our mission by undertaking objective, balanced and relevant research, sharing the insights and information widely, and working in partnership with a range of clients and collaborators.

RAND Europe has offices in Cambridge and Brussels, and employs approximately 140 researchers just over half of our research staff have doctorates with the balance holding other post-graduate degrees. Our work lies on the continuum between that of universities and consultancies, combining the academic rigour of universities and the professional, task orientated approach of consultancies. In addition to our strong ethos of evidence-based research, RAND Europe is a values-driven organisation, and our experience shows that our most successful researchers closely align their behaviours with our value set.

RAND Europe’s Health and Wellbeing Research Group focuses on research and analysis that aims to improve healthcare, health and wellbeing and public health. Our team of around two dozen researchers works at all levels of health policy, from individual initiatives to improve health service organisation and delivery to whole-system policy challenges and international policy issues.

Our work on safety, health and wellbeing in the workplace is growing. We are building on a range of collaborations with public authorities (including the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work), the private sector (eg working on Britain’s Healthiest Workplace with VitalityHealth), academic collaborators and philanthropic funders such as Lloyds Register Foundation. We are recruiting to help build and develop this expanding area.

The Health and Wellbeing Group includes people from a range of disciplines including health services research, health economics, epidemiology, public health, health innovation studies, implementation science and quality improvement, psychology, and sociology. We work in a flexible and multi-disciplinary way, assembling teams for specific proposals and projects that draw on skills and capacity across the research group and beyond, including qualitative and quantitative methods, and drawing on the methodological innovations of RAND as a whole. This breadth and depth of methods, topics and resources enables us to take on complex, multi-dimensional research challenges, and to stay at the forefront of research methods and policy issues. Our offices are in Cambridge and Brussels, and we work with clients throughout Europe and beyond.

We are recruiting a Research Analyst to join the Health and Wellbeing Group at RAND Europe, working on research on safety and health in the workplace. This would be part of our expanding team working on evidence for safety and health and how it can be used in practice, as well as wider issues such as new technologies and ways of working, and wider wellbeing in the workplace.

This post would suit those who have recently completed their PhD, or have completed a Masters degree and have some research experience in the academic, public or private sector. We are open to applications from people with quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods backgrounds with a strong interest in policy and decision-making in the area of safety and health at work.

This is an opportunity to contribute to our growing portfolio of research on this topic as part of our multi-disciplinary team, at all stages of proposals and projects. The Health and Wellbeing Group, and RAND Europe more broadly, have a strong commitment to career development through internal and external training, and by providing a supportive environment for hands-on learning.

• Excellent skills in team working and time management;
• Delivering high-quality research by (for example)
• Supports strategic corporate initiatives
• Conducting literature reviews
• Drafting data collection tools
• Preparing presentations and research briefs
• Maintains day-to-day contact with collaborators, clients and funders
• Drafts sections of reports with minimal supervision
• A passion for research related to safety and health at work
• Undertaking analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for varied audiences. Excellent English language skills are essential; additional EU language skills are an advantage.
• Conducting interviews or focus groups
• Contributes to impact by identifying opportunities for communication of research findings
• Collaborates with other researchers in project and proposal teams
• Manages projects, with some supervision and support, including monitoring budget, timetable, and deliverables, delegating work and providing feedback
• Experience in report writing, preferably for policymaker audiences
• Analysing calls for tender to identify proposal requirements and help organise responses
• Knowledge and experience of different research designs and methodologies and their application
• Supports business development activities
• Project manages small proposals
• Drafts sections of large-scale proposals

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent

Salary

Starting from £30,000 per annum

• Employee wellbeing training and support
• Fresh fruit every day
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Annual pay review
• Flexible working arrangements
• BUPA medical insurance
• 33 days holiday allowance, including the Bank Holidays
• Free parking
• Company bikes
• Group income protection scheme
• Compassionate leave
• Group life assurance
• 8% Employer pension contributions

If you feel that you have the qualities to be a part of our team please submit an application via the RAND Europe’s online careers portal. Your application will need to consist of 1) a CV and 2) a covering letter. submitted as one document. (Only applications with both documents will be considered).

Please note, if selected for interview a short writing sample may be requested.

Closing date for applications is Friday 1st September 2023, if you have not received a response within one month of the closing date, your application has not been successful