Vacancy – Quantitative Researcher / Analyst Senior Quantitative Researcher / Analyst
Get the Data (GtD) is a successful and growing company, both in London and in Atlanta USA. GtD’s exciting social impact analysis approach is helping organisations on both sides of the Atlantic to measure, learn and prove their social impact.
At GtD we offer our employees an opportunity to gain extensive experience within all aspects of social impact analytics (SIAs) whilst working alongside leading social impact analysts and thought leaders in the industry.
Our service offering is unique in the industry. This means you will be gaining invaluable insights into, and experience of, SIAs. We are innovative and forward thinking so you will be helping to advance and evolve our social impact analytics tools and systems knowing that whilst you are doing so, you are ultimately helping other organisations improve the impact they have on society.
We offer our employees a supportive working environment, with training provided, to help you develop and enhance your skills.
We are looking for both newly qualified and more experienced quantitative researchers and analysts. You could be looking for your first role or want to apply your analytical skills to something more rewarding. But you must be passionate about how high quality, well communicated analysis can improve social outcomes. You will be looking forward to influencing senior people in the police, courts, probation services and third sector organisations on both sides of the Atlantic.
In other words, we are most interested in your potential.
Therefore you will be a self-starter, relish the opportunity to help a business grow and want to learn and apply advanced analytical and statistical techniques. You will provide quantitative analysis skills to our evaluation and social impact analysis practice in the areas of criminal justice, education and housing. Specifically you will support an evaluation of an intervention to reduce offending by high harm offenders, a project to predict reoffending rates and an evaluation of a young person’s training initiative. You will also work on police projects with our sister company Crest Analytics.
Quantitative researcher / analyst
You can demonstrate these essential skills:
- Graduate degree in a subject with a substantial mathematical or statistics component
- Report writing for non-technical audiences
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience using SPSS syntax or R
- Experience of applying statistical modelling techniques including regression analysis
- Team working and ability to update and inform directors and project managers on progress and risks, and how to mitigate those.
- Work independently to complete project tasks
- Ability to work independently to improve your quantitative research and analysis skills, and to support the director to develop new products and business opportunities
- Microsoft Office or equivalent and email
- Willingness to travel abroad
Desirable skills for this opportunity are:
- Understanding of or experience of the role of research and analysis in either criminal justice policy, careers and training, homelessness or third sector
- Experience of using databases and writing SQL
- Masters degree or PhD with a substantial statistical analysis component
- One or more years’ experience of quantitative research or analysis
Senior Quantitative Researcher / Analyst
You can demonstrate these essential skills:
- Graduate degree in a subject with a substantial mathematical or statistics component
- Three or more years’ experience of quantitative research or analysis
- Report writing and presentations for non-technical audiences
- Good Microsoft Excel skills
- Good SPSS syntax or R skills
- Experience of SQL
- Experience of applying statistical modelling techniques to complex social issues
- Team working and ability to update and inform directors and project managers on progress and risks, and how to mitigate those.
- Project management of research or analytical projects
- Work independently to complete project tasks
- Ability to work independently to improve your quantitative research and analysis skills, and to support the director to develop new products and business opportunities
- Microsoft Office or equivalent and email
- Willingness to travel abroad
Desirable skills for this opportunity are:
- Understanding of or experience of the role of research and analysis in either criminal justice policy, careers and training, homelessness or third sector
- Masters degree or PhD with a substantial statistical analysis component
- Experience of web development with C# skills
Making an application
You will work from our London office (pro rata 38 hours per week). A competitive salary will be paid dependent upon skills and experience.
If you are interested please send your CV and cover letter with any current salary stated to iqqra.aziz@getthedata.net by 5pm on the 27th October 2017. Please indicate in your letter whether you are interested in a full-time or part-time position. Please also indicate if there are any dates in late October or early November you cannot make for an interview. If you wish to discuss the role please email jack.cattell@getthedata.net.