Senior Research Officer - Arts
| Posting date: | 12 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 April 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M2 3AW |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75689618 |
Summary
Salary: £39,365 - £48,608 + £4,200 analyst allowance (+ Benefits)
DCMS has a hub and spoke model with a Central Analysis Team (CAT) and Sector Analysis Teams (SAT), which are embedded within embedded within five policy directorates. This role is in Creative and Cultural Industries Analysis spoke, which is part of the Culture and Creative Industries policy directorate.
The role focused on the Creative and Cultural Futures (CCF) team within the CCI directorate. CCF works on a number of priority projects within the CCI directorate. These include:
- The Independent Review of the Arts Council. The review will be led by Baroness Margaret Hodge and will explore how ACE operates as an organisation. The review aims to ensure that Arts Council England is best positioned to successfully steward our cultural and creative sectors in every part of England.
- Place-based investment in culture. The team also works on designing departmental programs that deliver funding for projects that increase engagement in culture at a local level.
The Creative and Cultural futures team is looking for an enthusiastic social researcher to support the Independent Review of the Arts Council England (ACE). Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Working with the Baroness Hodge and policy officials in the ACE Review team to develop a framework for assessing evidence gathered as part of the review, ensuring different sources of information are prioritised in a systematic way.
- Conducting analysis of evidence collected during the review, this will consist of interview recordings, academic papers, grey literature and survey data.
- Working with central analysis and data science teams to pilot AI tools for analysing open text responses in responses to the surveys distributed as part of the review.
- Providing strategic direction on the policy area’s analysis, to ensure effective delivery against the longer-term departmental and ministerial objectives
- Working on other key priorities including:
Conducting spatial analysis of cultural participation to support investment in specific areas of low cultural engagement.
Supporting in the development of the evaluation of new programs delivered by the CCI directorate.
The ideal candidate will have the following key skills and experience:
Essential criteria:
- Badged membership of the Government Social Research Service, or eligibility and willingness to become a member. Full criteria can be found in the GSR membership guidance.
- Clear and confident in communicating, both verbally and written, and experience of building valuable and influential relationships with stakeholders.
- Extensive experience of using analysis to influence policy development.
- Experience of managing/leading projects, being proactive in planning and developing a programme of work, and taking ownership to deliver high-quality outputs, to time.
- Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and a proven ability to identify and define core analytical questions, and devise the most appropriate approaches to address, within time and resource constraints.
Desirable criteria:
- Experience in analysing qualitative evidence generated through interviews
- Experience of supporting in the management of complex, multi-year evaluations.
We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Samuel Burthem, and will take place on:
- 11 - 11:30 Friday 14/03/25
The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Please register your interest by filling out this Registration form by 17:00 13/03/25 and you will be sent an invitation.
Please note that the session will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk
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