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Job title: Researcher
Team: Research Service
Location: Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh or Aberdeen office, with remote working options
Salary: £32,801
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Closing date: 31 May 2023
Job ref no: R00428

Play a key role in promoting and delivering our highly regarded business growth research service. You’ll help a diverse range of businesses understand market opportunities, answering their questions and providing them with detailed advice.

Ultimately, you'll help shape Scottish Enterprise’s activities to offer businesses the support they need to grow.

All of Scotland’s businesses need access to high quality research on a variety of topics. To reduce risk and increase their chances of success, you’ll help companies find and validate key opportunities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Sourcing and analysing business information from subscription databases and online tools, then tailoring and packaging this information to suit the needs of different users.
• Raising the profile of research as a resource by participating in a range of promotional activities.
• Working in compliance with all relevant legislation, such as copyright, intellectual property, and data protection.

You should have an enquiring mind, and ideally experience working in a library or information management setting. You’ll have flawless writing skills and see complex research requests as a challenge to be solved. You’re also happy working across a wide range of information resources and tools.

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

• Being customer focused with confidence, and aware of which questions get to the heart of the customer need.
• Strong research skills, including knowledge of research tools and techniques.
• Well-versed in evaluating resources and presenting the results in a way that suits your customer.
• Educated to SCQF Level 8, or have relevant skills and experience in a research, information management, or library environment.

Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:

• Experience researching business topics and writing for business audiences.

If successful, you'll gain access to the following benefits:

• Membership of the Scottish Enterprise Pension and Life Assurance Scheme – a pension based on your final pensionable salary, flexible retirement options and generous life assurance cover
• Up to 43 annual leave days a year (including public holidays) with the opportunity to buy additional holidays
• Flexible working arrangements
• A health cash plan
• Our Employee Retail Benefits Scheme
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form by 31 May 2023.

Interview dates

• First round: 12 June 2023
• Second round: 19 June 2023

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

Apply now to keep building your future with us

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process but throughout employment with us.

We have the following networks which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion, Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-cultural, Multi-Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).