Are you curious about the world around you? Are you excited by collaborative, supportive and creative research? Join the HVM team as a Researcher
Who we are
Hopkins Van Mil’s mission is to bring people together to inform the future. We distil the collective voices of society and deliver meaningful insights and provide spaces for change. Our vision is a better society built on thoughtful social insights explored and implemented with humanity and kindness.
We work with clients across the public sector on a wide range of issues including health and social care, data systems, the environment and climate change, and cultural heritage. Current clients include the Department for Science Innovation and Technology, The Natural Environment Research Council, academic institutions including the Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield, as well as the Canal & River Trust; Sustrans; the British Science Association. In recent years we have worked on large Sciencewise public dialogues for Genomics England, the National Data Guardian and the National Food Strategy.
What we’re looking for
Our ideal Researcher is flexible, confident, with an ability to prioritise complex and competing deliverables. You’ll want to have an excellent rapport with our close-knit team and with our clients, stakeholders and research participants. You will be happy to pick up the phone to recruit people to our workshops or arrange and conduct stakeholder interviews; you may have some experience as a facilitator, but if not, demonstrate a curiosity about what people have to say and a willingness to learn. You are likely to have conducted some early career research work outside of a higher education context and want to develop your skills in the full research cycle from early design, through fieldwork, coding and analysis to final report.
You are:
Super organised with excellent attention to detail
Hardworking, enthusiastic and flexible
Calm and able to problem solve efficiently including quick thinking under pressure
Proactive and enthusiastic
Focused on the needs of participants and others involved in the delivery of our research programmes
Empathetic and creative
Skilled at Microsoft Office (essential)
Have experience of working with analytic tools such as NVivo (desirable)
HVM recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
What we’re offering
We’re a small, friendly and collaborative team who are committed to our work and support each other to do great things. As a successful small business, we feel this is a brilliant opportunity for you to learn and develop, working with us on every stage of a wide variety of projects, and contributing to new opportunities and approaches for HVM.
This is a full time role working at our offices in Whitechapel and flexibly from home. We do require office working as a minimum one day a week on a Tuesday. You can arrange your hours to suit you with a working day being 8 hours including a paid lunch break. Our workshops are delivered on weekday evenings and weekends, with time off in lieu. We offer a 5% contribution to the pension scheme.
Next steps
If you’d like to hear more do get in touch with leah@hopkinsvanmil.co.uk for an informal chat. To apply, send a brief CV (no more than 2 pages) with a short letter explaining why you are the best fit for this role to info@hopkinsvanmil.co.uk. The deadline for applications is Monday 15th May at 8.00am.
Interviews will be held on 23 May in our London office.
We’re interested in someone joining us as soon as possible, so please get in touch.