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Job Description
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an experienced researcher to lead research and evaluation projects in education. The majority of your time will be spent managing studies in formal education (from early years to higher education), with the potential for some work in informal settings as well. You will also have the opportunity to lead or work on interventions that apply the behavioural sciences to improve education for children, teachers and parents.
About BIT
BIT is a social purpose company. It exists to improve people’s lives and communities. It works in partnership with national, regional and local governments, businesses, foundations and charities, to tackle major policy problems, often through testing and implementing simple yet powerful changes.
It has about 250 staff based in 8 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, and has run more than 1000 projects to date, including over 700 randomised controlled trials in dozens of countries. In addition to its own interventions, it openly shares expertise and helps others build capacity and skills to apply behavioural science for social good.
What does a Senior Research Advisor in Education at BIT do?
You will lead the design and management of education research. You will also contribute to business development by leading proposals and maintaining strong relationships across the sector. Your main clients are likely to be the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), the Department for Education and EdTech providers (including Big Tech companies). This will involve managing and working with teams of researchers and policy experts.
Our current portfolio of research includes large-scale randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of complex programmes in schools, nimble RCTs testing refinements to teacher training, scoping research to better understand current practice in fields such as attendance support in colleges, and formative evaluations that support intervention development and scaling (mixed-methods pilots and scale-up evaluations).
On the delivery side, we are currently running and testing our own interventions that aim to reduce mobile phone use through youth collective action, to address bullying by leveraging peer to peer networks, and to increase engagement in tutoring by increasing students’ sense of belonging.
Key questions your work may answer are:
This role is at Senior Advisor level which means you will be involved in the following activities.
What makes a great Senior Research Advisor in Education at BIT?
We’re looking for people who understand what we do, share our values and are keen to learn and develop their expertise. You should have most of the skills listed below, but we expect to provide training and development support in some areas.
BIT really is a great place to work
Application process
Please note:
You will need to have the right to work in the UK in order to be able to undertake this role. We will ask all applicants short-listed for an interview to provide evidence of their right to work during the recruitment process. If you do not have the right to work for BIT but are the most suitable person for the role we will explore with you whether sponsorship may be an option. However, this may not be possible for all roles.
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