Research and Insight Manager (Quantitative Specialist) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8HD

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker (1-2 days in County Hall per week)

Salary: LCC Grade 12: £42,498 - £46,344 (pay award pending)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 8th June 2025

Interview Date(s): Week commencing 30th June

Research & Insight Manager (Quantitative specialist) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the development of our 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.

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

You will work with the HDRC team in Leicestershire County Council. Your role will be focused on quantitative data and research. It will include getting familiar with Leicestershire County Council data, liaising with internal colleagues to explore the depth and breadth of data the council has access to. Alongside this, you will link in with other local data sources and infrastructure, providing a breadth of knowledge of our local data landscape.

This role includes involvement in research tasks, including preparing data, analysing data and presenting findings. You will connect with academic staff in partner universities to design and develop innovative ideas, write research bids and explore research possibilities, enhancing our ability to use and learn from our quantitative data.

About You

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, including research publications.
• 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.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Dr Sarah McNeill, Business Partner, Health Determinants Research Collaboration

Telephone: 0116 305 9090

Email: sarah.mcneill@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

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

Our 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. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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