Research Leader: Quantitative Researcher for Health and Wellbeing

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Research Group Director – Health and Wellbeing 

Position Summary

RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research consultancy that conducts client-funded research.

RAND Europe’s Health and Wellbeing Research Group focuses on research and analysis that aims to improve healthcare, health and wellbeing and public health. Our team of around two dozen researchers works at all levels of health policy, from individual initiatives to improve health service organisation and delivery to whole-system policy challenges and international policy issues.

Researchers in the Health and Wellbeing Group collaborate extensively with university-based researchers, particularly through the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, a partnership between RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge (including the Research Methods Hub; www.cchsr.phpc.cam.ac.uk ).

We wish to recruit an experienced Senior Quantitative Researcher to lead their own research portfolio within the Health and Wellbeing Group at RAND Europe. We anticipate that the successful applicant would lead a wide range of research projects for national and international clients and research funders from both the public and private sector. This will include leading all stages of proposals and projects, as well as taking a strategic approach to developing a broader area of research and the relationships, capacities and opportunities to realise it in practice. This post would suit those who have completed their Post-graduate training and have begun to establish themselves as independent researchers.

 Key Responsibilities

• Leading and building a portfolio of quantitative research and analysis projects on health and wellbeing, including identifying opportunities, developing proposals and teams, and successfully delivering projects
• Ensuring and expanding good relations with research funders, clients, partners and policymakers, including developing new areas and ideas for research areas and how quantitative analysis can contribute to policy and decision-making;
• Contributing to high standards of rigorous quantitative analysis for the research group, including helping to develop staff capacity and innovative methods for the group as a whole.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

You will draw on a strong background in quantitative analysis and apply it to real issues in order to make a positive impact on policy and decision-making.

You will bring passion related to the field of quantitative research on health and wellbeing, and flexibility and drive to contribute to an exciting portfolio of high impact research and analysis in order to inform policy and decision making.

You will have: 

• Strong quantitative analysis skills for health issues, with a good track record of applying their research skills to a range of policy problems from areas such as health economics, health services research, public health, epidemiology or other health-related areas.
• A track record in developing, successfully funding, and delivering research, and experience in managing projects and budgets.
• Significant experience working with large-scale data and applying a variety of different statistical techniques to address real-world problems.  
• Excellent skills in working as part of a team, leading and motivating others, mentoring and developing colleagues for career progression;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for varied audiences. Excellent English language skills are essential; additional EU language skills are an advantage.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent

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