Research Manager Europe

We are looking for a Research Manager within the Europe Insights team. As a Research Manager you will play a key role in designing delivering and interpreting research that evaluates the performance and effectiveness of multimedia communications activity. Reporting to the Insights Director and linemanaged by a (Senior) Research Director or Associate Director you will drive the analytical processes that turn complex qualitative and quantitative data into clear actionable insights.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Research Manager will oversee research projects from design through to reporting including creating datacollection tools managing fieldwork partners analysing data sets and producing highquality written assessments. You will contribute to the development of Theories of Change and strategic frameworks ensuring research findings meaningfully inform programme direction.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong analytical foundation experience working across mixedmethods projects and an interest in communications evaluation behavioural change and international contexts including Central and Eastern Europe.

Key responsibilities are to:

• Analyse and triangulate qualitative and quantitative data to assess the performance and effectiveness of multimedia communications activity.

• Manipulate and interpret data sets rigorously to generate meaningful and actionable insights.

• Write clear robust assessment reports and contribute research findings to other internal reporting outputs.

• Design datacollection tools including questionnaires discussion guides and instruments for pretesting formative research and evaluation.

• Liaise with external fieldwork partners collaborating closely on research delivery and overseeing project management when fieldwork is outsourced.

• Contribute to strategy and Theory of Change development ensuring research findings inform project design and strategic decisions.

• Informally manage colleagues contributing to written reports providing guidance structure and quality assurance.

• Conduct deskbased research to support wider insight generation.

• Carry out additional duties as required by the management of the Europe Insights team.

ABOUT YOU

What you bring (knowledge expertise experience and skills):

Essential:

• Experience in research monitoring or evaluation ideally across mixedmethods projects.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills with confidence analysing data (SPSS R or Stata).

• Experience managing research projects from design through to reporting.

• Ability to assess the impact of multimedia and digitalled communications.

• Clear confident communicator able to present findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Experience designing datacollection tools logframes or assessment strategies.

• Strong work ethic with the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple tasks.

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field.

• Experience working in developing/fragile contexts behaviouralchange evaluation or digital research is an advantage.

• Interest or experience in Central and/or Eastern Europe; regional language skills (e.g. Russian Georgian SerboCroat Romanian) are a bonus.

WHAT YOU GET

A competitive salary and benefits package that includes 27 days holiday per year pension contributions private healthcare discounted dental insurance enhanced maternity/parental leave plus a whole host of others including:

• Cultural stimulation allowance - 250 per person per year

• Half days off before bank holidays

• Emergency care days for dependants

• Up to 5 days volunteering leave per year to work for a registered charity

• Up to 10 days special emergency leave per year

• Season Ticket loan

• Payroll Giving Scheme

• Thursday drinks to unwind and socialize

• An annual Summer and Christmas party

• Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion sees us offer inclusive bank holidays

We also offer learning opportunities around D&I targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in several active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

ABOUT MC SAATCHI WORLD SERVICES

MC Saatchi World Services is a specialist division of MC Saatchi Group the worlds largest independent communications network. Our specialists work in office hubs across six continents grounding our global expertise in local nuance.

We offer award-winning commercial communications capabilities which are utilized by global organizations to address the worlds most complex problems across defence development diplomacy homeland and national security law and order health education and the environment.

We work with clients that want to help the hardest-to-reach hardest-to-influence audiences. This includes a range of Western Government departments such as DOS and USAID; partner governments including the U.K. and Australia; and prominent IGOs/NGOs such as the U.N.

We are a comms agency that works on behaviour change projects typically focused on issues related to Security Defence and Stabilization. Whether its producing critically acclaimed feature films in Africa to TV shows in the Middle East to pop music videos in Asia we have a record of leveraging creativity to access communities anywhere in the world.

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