Research Officer - Economics (50k - Hybrid)

Job description

A leading Public Sector employer based in Belfast are currently recruiting a Research Officer (Economics) to join their team on an initial interim basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of Northern Ireland's most recognisable employers.

What's in it for you?

• Salary - £50,684
• Initial interim contract (6 months) with potential extension
• Hybrid working policy

About your next employer

Research Officers work directly with Assembly Members and Committees in the production of non-partisan, objective and evidence-based research. Each Research Officer is responsible for authoring research concerning a specific subject area (specialism) within the remit of the devolved powers of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The research produced by Research Officers is routinely published and can involve written, oral and visual presentations to Assembly Committees in open and closed sessions.

About you

1. Be in possession of at least a second-class honours degree (or equivalent or post-graduate qualification), which contained at least 50% of the course content relating to policy development or law-making in the area of economics, including public finance.

AND

1. Have at least two years of work experience post degree (or equivalent or post-graduate qualification) in:

1. Conducting objective, evidence-based research on economic issues, including public finance. This includes the collation, validation and visualisation of a wide range of date - qualitative and quantitative; and

1. Producing and delivering evidence-based research findings on economic issues, including those concerning public finance, to help inform discussion and decision making relating to policy development or law-making in that area.

What you'll do

• Scope research requirements with individual MLAs, Assembly Committees and Officials, as well as, on occasion, others.
• Retrieve and synthesise information and data from a wide range of sources, including online databases.
• Deliver high quality and impartial research and analysis on economics, including public finance, in a timely and accurate manner.
• Produce a range of well-written, concise and accessible research outputs, which are evidence-based and address policy, legislation and/or public finance - for example: research papers; briefing papers; blog posts; training materials; digital dashboards; and, infographics.
• Present - clearly and effectively - research briefings and training materials, to individual MLAs and their staff, as well as Assembly Committee Members and Officials: this includes responding to their questions; and for Assembly Committees, this largely occurs in public session.
• Contribute to the peer review of RaISe colleagues' research outputs.
• Identify potential witnesses and specialist advisors - academic and non-academic - for Assembly Committees' consideration and use.
• Maintain a specialist knowledge of this post's research portfolio through ongoing learning and development - for example: tracking relevant developments across government, at international, central and devolved levels; attending seminars and conferences (in-person and online); keeping abreast of relevant academic and non-academic literature; reading newsletters and updates, maintaining networks, etc.
• Facilitate public events - for example: Assembly Committee Inquiries; RaISe's Academic Engagement-related events, such as individual seminars in the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (KESS).
• Proactively forge and develop appropriate links with departmental officials, external research bodies/communities, academics, RaISe counterparts in other such library and research services and other.
• Work collaboratively and collegially, as an effective Team member.

To apply today contact Ethan Boylan in the strictest confidence.

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