Researcher

Location (UK): Office Hybrid - London
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Travel: Occasional travel to our offices

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

At Versus Arthritis, we won t rest until everyone with arthritis has access to the treatment and care they need to live the life they choose with real hope of a cure in the future.

The Chief Executive s Office supports the work of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in leading the charity efficiently and effectively, as well as working with trustees, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), staff and volunteers from across the charity. The Chief Executive s Office is also home to our UK Advocacy and Health Intelligence department who are responsible for leading UK strategy development and delivery across advocacy (policy, public affairs, campaigning) and health intelligence, working closely with colleagues in the Devolved Nations to ensure effective delivery of the strategy in each nation.

About the role

The researcher will provide expertise on the latest research evidence on topics of strategic importance, providing a responsive but robust and balanced assessment of the available evidence to shape the charity s UK advocacy agenda, and drive organisational priorities.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we d love to hear from you:

• In-depth knowledge and experience in working in health-related, biomedical or medical research.
• Experience in the synthesis and evaluation of research evidence across a range of sources (including grey literature), including in the design and delivery of rapid reviews.
• Experience in communicating clearly and succinctly to non-technical and non-expert audiences, through both written formats (eg briefing papers) and verbally (eg via presentations and meetings with senior stakeholders), with a robust approach to accessibility throughout communication.
• Educated to PhD level and/or can consistently demonstrate PhD level skills in framing research questions and the ability to evaluate research across a range of methodologies and topic areas in a health-related, biomedical or medical field.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and successfully lead rapid-turnaround projects delivering to short deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail, consistently producing accurate and robust work without substantial oversight.
• Ability to think strategically; solving complex problems and making decisions based on the structured analysis of the problem, the identification and critical evaluation of multiple relevant sources of evidence and assessment of competing priorities to achieve a goal.
• The ability to shape and design a research question that will deliver actionable intelligence to shape decision making.
• Experience of using research insights to influence senior leaders.

As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.