You must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Professional experience, ideally within a research agency, evidencing well-rounded and developing research skills across the project cycle including project design & costing, development of fieldwork materials, management of fieldwork and analysis/reporting processes
• Outstanding project management, an ability to work to deadlines and juggle competing priorities
• An eye for detail and accuracy at all stages, but particularly when checking project materials e.g. survey programs / CATI scripts, data and reports
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and guide colleagues, clients, and suppliers
• Creative thinking and problem solving, capable of challenging the status quo and finding effective improvements
• The ability to delegate down, and manage up, tasks and responsibilities
• Excellent, fluent, written and spoken English (fluency in other languages is a bonus but not a requirement)
• A high level of competence in working with both Excel and PowerPoint

Experience in the following would be viewed as a bonus rather than a requirement but, at a minimum, we are looking for someone who is willing to learn and undertake:

• Projects on behalf of a variety of clients in our key sectors
• A mix of both quantitative and qualitative research (though with an emphasis on quant initially)
• Implementation of best practice from professional PM accreditations such as PRINCE2 or Agile