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Senior Research Executive
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time / Attachment, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need
LOCATION: Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,500-£33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the Insight team at BBC Children in Need for the opportunity to develop insight that will influence the work that we do right across the charity. As Senior Research Executive, you'll play a key role bringing the voice of our audiences into the charity, monitoring the landscape for children and young people, and helping us keep track of what's happening in the outside world.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will be working in a team who share a fascination with audiences and what makes them tick, a natural curiosity, and a love of data and insight. The team partners with colleagues right across the charity with a focus on helping them insight-based decisions.
You will join at an exciting time, with the opportunity to directly monitor and report on the impact of our annual Appeal with audiences.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Supporting the Monitoring and Evaluation of our Annual Appeal by producing broadcast income updates, supporting our audience research and supporting the production of our Appeal debriefs.
- Creating Insight Outputs such as summaries of external reports, reviews of external trends and briefings on the landscape of need for children.
- Conducting Desk Research and Analysis to inform the broader work of the Insight team such as brand reviews and impact reports.
- Supporting Knowledge Management and Sharing by championing and maintaining the Insight Hub and managing Insight sessions and bulletins.
- Research Project Support, assisting with external qualitative and quantitative research projects as well as internal staff surveys.
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Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- An understanding of quantitative research, qualitative research and data analysis.
- Good quantitative analysis skills, with the ability to work creatively with existing data sources.
- Experience of conducting desk research and distilling large reports into key insights.
- Good presentation skills, with the ability to develop engaging insight stories via PowerPoint.
- Experience of developing and using audience insights and communicating them in an engaging way.
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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