Intelligence Manager - Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Fixed Term, Full Time
up to £69,262 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
Working Style: Anywhere worker
Closing Date: 9th May 2024
Please note this role will be offered on a fixed-term contract or secondment basis to January 2025.
At Essex County Council, our work impacts the lives of over 1.5 million residents. We work hard to meet our residents’ needs – from protecting vulnerable children, to helping older residents remain independent; from improving quality of life through better public health, to unlocking economic opportunities across our towns and cities. We need to take decisions based on meaningful insight and high-quality research. This is where you come in.
About the role
As an Intelligence Manager, you’ll join a senior team responsible for delivering high-quality research and analysis to support strategic decision-making. The role is a great opportunity to influence senior political and executive leaders with the county council and across our partners, generating insights that them to shape policy and to design interventions that improve quality of life for residents and communities.
In this role you will oversee a broad programme of quantitative and qualitative research focused on the council’s key priorities. You will ensure that the insights we generate are timely and presented to achieve maximum impact. You’ll lead a team of specialist researchers, helping them to navigating a complex political environment, and using your experience to identify where the team’s skills and capabilities can add most value. You’ll build strong and productive working relationships with senior stakeholders across the council and beyond.
In return, you can look forward an excellent rewards package, as well as flexible working and long-term career opportunities.
Responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for:
- leading a team that provides the council and its partners with actionable, insightful, research evidence and recommendations that support the achievement of strategic priorities.
- operational leadership of a multi-disciplinary research team, contributing to the ongoing development of ECC’s research capability by managing and developing our research infrastructure and supporting staff to develop their technical capabilities.
- delivering analysis and research that tests existing assumptions, seeks to understand lived experience and provides a firm evidence base to shape new thinking and make decisions.
- progressing research projects through appropriate research governance processes, ensuring that the council’s research is carried out in a meaningful and ethical manner.
- gathering and making available case studies, data and management information to enable the ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
- building effective and beneficial internal and external relationships.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
We’re looking for people with significant experience in delivering research and analysis for large, complex organisations. You’ll have a track record in delivering research that impacts strategic decision making, possibly, but not necessarily, in a local government setting.
We are looking for candidates who meet the following criteria:
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in a relevant area.
- Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering high quality research that impacted on strategic decision making, preferably in local government.
- Significant experience of undertaking research, analysis and/or providing an intelligence function to a large complex organisation.
- Significant experience of leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team to deliver positive outcomes.
- Extensive knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodology, ethical research practices and the Data Protection Act.
- Deep understanding of the legislative framework in which the Council operates.
- Experience of delivering public services in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective.
- You should have a degree in a relevant subject, and knowledge of quantitative and qualitative techniques and research governance.
For more information or an informal conversation please contact Alastair Gordon, Head of Profession Research and Citizen Insight, via Alastair.Gordon@essex.gov.uk or 07739 104238.
Why Essex?
Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.
Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.
What you should do next
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the link.
Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk
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