ABOUT YOU

You will display creativity in approaching research problems and communicating research outputs, collaborate effectively and enjoy both working as part of a team and independently.

To be successful you will demonstrate:

• an interest and curiosity about assessment
• knowledge of research methods and recent literature in education and assessment
• the ability to write and speak in ways that suit different purposes and that engage different audiences, such as teachers, business colleagues and academic researchers
• you can conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis independently and confidently

Having a postgraduate qualification that involved a quantitative or qualitative research project is an advantage but not essential.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

WHY JOIN US

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You’ll belong to a collaborative team that’s exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it’s safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

LI-SP

Some key accountabilities will be:

• Design, conduct and manage qualitative and quantitative research projects.
• Carry out both qualitative and quantitative data analysis confidently and independently.
• Exercise professional independence and creativity to solve problems and initiate solutions.
• Author reports, research papers, and presentations of publishable quality.
• Communicate research outputs to business teams to support development and improvements to products and/or processes.
• Provide advice, training, operational and project support to teams across the organisation, promoting good research practice within and beyond the Research Division

This is an exciting opportunity to spend 12 months working in a busy research team within our Qualifications and Assessment strand of the Research Division. This team focuses particularly on the quality and accessibility of academic and vocational assessments to help ensure they are reliable, useful and fair. You will be responsible for carrying out research tasks as well as entire research projects, from the proposal to data collection to dissemination. Some projects will require you to work independently while others will be collaborative pursuits where you will work closely with other researchers and business colleagues.
In this role your research will have wide-ranging impact, both for our business activities as well as on the assessment and education community more widely. You will provide critical evidence to support our business teams in developing and delivering assessment products of the highest quality. You will also help influence thinking and policy on education more widely within and beyond Cambridge University Press & Assessment.

Some key accountabilities will be:

• Design, conduct and manage qualitative and quantitative research projects.
• Carry out both qualitative and quantitative data analysis confidently and independently.
• Exercise professional independence and creativity to solve problems and initiate solutions.
• Author reports, research papers, and presentations of publishable quality.
• Communicate research outputs to business teams to support development and improvements to products and/or processes.
• Provide advice, training, operational and project support to teams across the organisation, promoting good research practice within and beyond the Research Division.