Research Assistant Remote
Job description
Research Assistant (Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 11 Months
Contracting Authority: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Location: Remote with 1 day in office every 2 months.
As a Research Assistant, your main responsibilities would be:
- Good organisational skills, including the ability to co-ordinate inputs / papers from several people, figure out what needs to be sent to whom, and work out deadlines and chase people in advance of those.
- Ability to create professional word documents (eg templates), PowerPoint slides, and use Excel.
- Ability to provide support to researchers in an assistant role (eg note taking in interviews, collating information from a number of research documents).
- To provide a secretariat to the DAG: setting up meetings, taking minutes, and tracking the liaison between the CPS Research team and the DAG.
- Ensuring the communications team are supplied with minutes from the DAG, so that a public record can be maintained.
- Co-ordinate lots of different information and papers
- Sending out diary invites and collating information ensuring everyone is attending
- Help run meetings every two and three months with the right information collected and distributed out.
- Receiving proposals and delegating to the right people and then responsible for collecting information within the given timescales
- Diary management
- Chasing the correct people for the updated information required
- Responsible for creating templates for reports; proposals; briefing notes; and slide decks..
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Social science qualifications – minimum Master’s degree or PhD (doctorate). (eg degrees Psychology, statistics, sociology, anthropology, economics (But if economics they should have very strong evidence of social statistics, rather than economic analysis alone).
- Ability to write well, and evidence of having undertaken literature reviews. (We agreed at the point of interview we will give them a writing task – eg here’s 2-3 pages of text, please summarise in 500 words).
- Numerate and able to understand and explain social statistics (eg regression analysis, tests of difference, etc).
- Prior experience of undertaking a secretariat function, including the ability to co-ordinate inputs / papers from several people, figure out what needs to be sent to whom, and work out deadlines and chase people in advance of those.
- Ability to create professional word documents (eg templates).
- Present themselves well, and deal with academics and fairly high-level CPS staff accordingly.
- Microsoft office skills
- Be organised and strategic in organising their work.
- Be diligent in ensuring they work in an ordered way
- Strong administrative experience
- Good interpersonal traits, able to work with all levels within the programme team and multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group including executives, managers, and subject matter experts
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 11 months
Salary: £275.00-£375.00 per day
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: PSR1JP00069482
