Research and Insight Manager (Knowledge Mobilisation) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration
Research and Insight Manager (Knowledge Mobilisation) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8HD
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker (12 days in County Hall per week)
Salary: LCC Grade 12:per annum (pay award pending)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 8th June 2025
Interview Date(s): Week commencing 30th June
Research & Insight Manager (Knowledge Mobilisation) Health Determinants Research Collaboration
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the development of our Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC)which will help address health inequalities through building research evidence around the wider determinants of health. The Leicestershire HDRCis a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded research team led collaboratively by the County Council alongside partners from local universities.
We are looking for a Research & Insight Manager to help us develop our knowledge mobilisation capacity. This will include working with the HDRC team in Leicestershire County Council and collaborating with our partner universities voluntary sector and communities. You will join a team that will work to achieve our project milestones over our 5year plan with the goal of reducing health inequalities.
You will develop and implement a knowledge mobilisation strategy so that research is informed by local need and findings are disseminated and integrated into service delivery and policy making to achieve a real impact. You will work with the wider HDRC team local communities voluntary sector and universities to understand research priorities design plan bid for and implement research with the goal of maximising impact.
You will support activity across each of our six pillars of culture change; Public and Community Involvement Engagement and Participation Data Governance and Infrastructure Research Training and Skills Development Collaboration with anchor institutions Monitoring evaluation and improvement and Knowledge Mobilisation.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Have completed a PhD relevant to public health or wider determinants of health and/or evidence of equivalent research experience and be educated to degree level in a relevant subject and/or equivalent relevant experience.
- Have knowledge of research techniques and methodologies and experience in knowledge mobilisation strategies and methods to increase research impact.
- Have knowledge and skills to support the development and management of research bids providing advice on knowledge mobilisation aspects.
- Have experience of preparing and presenting research findings in innovative ways to enhance knowledge mobilisation alongside highquality publications conference proceedings and study reports.
- Have experience of assessing summarising and translating research through literature reviews making it accessible for the relevant audience.
- Have experience of implementing research findings and evaluating the outcomes to provide demonstratable impact.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills to engage with support and constructively challenge HDRC partners knowledge mobilisation networks and managers across the Council.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Dr Sarah McNeill Business Partner Health Determinants Research Collaboration
Telephone: 0
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Temp
