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Join Samaritans as an Evidence and Insight Officer and contribute to life-saving research in suicide prevention.
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Salary
£32500 - £35000
Location
Ewell, Surrey, UK - Hybrid
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Organisation Summary: Samaritans is a critical organization dedicated to reducing suicide and supporting those affected by it. With a focus on prevention and support, the role of an Evidence and Insight Officer is pivotal in enhancing the team's research capabilities and driving impactful insights. This position offers the chance to be at the forefront of suicide prevention efforts, making a real difference in society.
- Coordinate and develop Samaritan's core evidence base related to suicide and self-harm.
- Monitor official suicide data and create evidence summaries.
- Identify research gaps and generate new evidence.
- Provide evidence and insights support to both internal and external audiences.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Proactive with a passion for evidence synthesis and research best practices.
- Strong understanding of quantitative and qualitative evidence gathering.
- Ability to analyze evidence and create insightful recommendations.
- Experience in survey design and administration.
- Knowledge of research ethics and integrity.
- Upload your CV and answer application questions.
- Applications close on October 20th, 2023.
- Video interviews scheduled for October 29th and 30th.
Samaritans is looking for an Evidence and Insight Officer. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Research and Evaluation team. The role involves finding new and engaging ways to translate, synthesise and generate evidence and insights related to suicide prevention.
The role: As an Evidence and Insight Officer, you will be responsible for coordinating and developing Samaritan’s core evidence base and the provision of evidence related to suicide and self-harm. This includes monitoring official suicide data, creating evidence summaries for staff and volunteers, identifying research gaps, and generating new evidence to improve our understanding of the experiences of people with lived and living experience of suicide, self-harm, and Samaritans’ services. You will also provide high quality and timely evidence and insights support to internal and external audiences.
Job requirements: We are looking for someone with excellent organisational and communication skills, who is pro-active and passionate about best practice in evidence synthesis, research design and delivery, and the communication of insights. The ideal candidate will have an excellent understanding of quantitative and qualitative approaches to evidence gathering, proven ability to analyse and critically assess all kinds of evidence, the ability to turn complex information, including quantitative data, into key insights and recommendations for different audiences, experience in survey design and administration, and knowledge of a broad range of research ethics and integrity issues.
Benefits: We offer competitive salaries, flexible and hybrid working to suit your needs, family-friendly policies, 28 days annual leave inclusive of wellbeing days and a matched pension contribution up to 5%. You’ll have a structured induction and ongoing projects, secondments & learning opportunities. We also have colleague-led affinity groups made up of people with shared identities. Your health and wellbeing is our priority. We have a staff community of Mental Health First Aiders, a Health Cash Plan and an Employee Assistance Programme. You’ll have free subscriptions to Headspace & Perkbox.
Application details: If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply. You’ll be asked to upload your CV and answer a number of application questions. Applications close Sunday 20th October. Video interviews to be held on the 29th and 30th October.
