Full job description

Job Title: Senior Research Manager

Location: Bristol Office (Hybrid - minimum 2 days per week in the office)

Salary: £44,736 to £49,028 per annum (Band H/I, depending on experience), with a salary review after successful completion of a 5-month probationary period

Job Type: Permanent, Full time (37.5 hours per week)

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced research leader to help shape and deliver research that supports a fair and sustainable energy transition. You'll lead major research and evaluation projects, develop new opportunities for CSE's work, and build relationships with partners, funders and policymakers to ensure our evidence informs real-world decisions.

You will identify new opportunities, develop compelling funding proposals, and work with colleagues to win new projects that strengthen CSE's research portfolio and influence. You'll manage large, strategic and technically complex research projects, providing social research expertise and advanced subject knowledge to advance CSE's strategic objectives.

Through your work, you will help ensure that social and behavioural evidence plays a central role in reducing fuel poverty, tackling climate change and creating a more equitable energy system.

Specific responsibilities:

An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:

• Manage large, strategic and technically complex research projects, including research design, planning, ethics, data management, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide expertise in research management and social research across CSE.
• Contribute advanced subject knowledge in the social impacts of the UK energy transition and/or a specialist area relevant to CSE's mission.
• Provide leadership and coordination of the work of others, including external partners and subcontractors.
• Develop and maintain relationships with project partners and funders.
• Identify opportunities for CSE to influence policy and industry developments, and develop new funding proposals.
• Consolidate research insights to deliver impactful outputs, communications and policy influence.
• Present outputs to clients and wider stakeholders and represent CSE at external events.
• Line manage two junior members of the team, providing mentoring and support.
• Participate in effective workload planning across the Research & Analysis team.

To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.

About you:

Essential attributes for this role include:

• A strong track record of conducting and leading impactful research, including complex, large-scale projects.
• Experience developing successful funding proposals and new streams of work.
• Research methods skills, including numerical/data analysis, survey design, and qualitative and/or evaluation methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to produce clear, accurate research reports and effective technical and non-technical summaries.
• Effective coordination of teams, stakeholders and clients for the purposes of project delivery.
• Excellent time management skills, including priority setting, multi-tasking and problem-solving.
• Advanced knowledge of UK sustainable energy policy and the social and behavioural dimensions of the energy transition.
• A positive, flexible approach, self-motivated with the ability to work independently.

Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.

Benefits: