Description
Research Officer required for part time (15 hours pw) role on 7 month contract with public sector organisation based in Edinburgh.
Duties will include:
- Planning - identifying and confirming research needs, defining research questions, searching and sourcing relevant literature, reading, identifying research populations
- Preparation - designing and drawing up research instruments, testing and piloting, identifying samples
- Execution - briefing research participants, conducting field work, eg sending out the surveys, managing returns and data collections, carrying out interviews, etc.
- Analysis - conducting statistical analysis, interpreting results
Essential experience required:
- Masters degree or 1 year post graduate study
- Experience in quantitative research/analysis, statistical analysis, etc.
- Experience in qualitative research/analysis, thematic analysis, etc.
- Knowledge of a wide range of research methods
- Proficiency in a variety of software applications: databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages