Intelligence Manager - Health Determinants Research Collaboration (Hdrc)

Intelligence Manager - Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC)

Permanent, Full Time

Up to £69,262 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 27th May 2024

About us

We want everyone who lives in Greater Essex to have the same opportunities to succeed in life. We are making progress towards this, but we still have a way to go. For too many communities low levels of education, limited economic opportunities and poor living conditions lead to disparities in mental and physical health and lower life-expectancy. Those who are most vulnerable experience the greatest disadvantages.

There is no easy solution. If we are to secure further progress, public service agencies will need to work together, taking decisions based on meaningful insight and high-quality research.

This is where you come in.

About the role

As Intelligence Manager, you’ll join the team leading the development of the new Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Greater Essex – part of the emerging network of research centres that are based in local authorities, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

The HDRC Greater Essex will be hosted by Essex County Council, but you’ll work hand-in-glove with colleagues in Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock Councils, and across the University of Essex and Anglia Ruskin University.

You’ll provide operational leadership to the development and delivery of a high-quality research programme, focused on the wider determinants of health, and capable of informing decisions on strategy and commissioning and shaping future service practice. Deep engagement with partners across the local system of public services, and with members of our multi-partner Leadership Board, will be the key to success.

In this role you will ensure that the insights we generate are timely and presented to achieve maximum impact. You’ll lead a team of specialist researchers, helping them to navigating a complex political environment, and using your experience to identify where the team’s skills and capabilities can add most value. You’ll build strong and productive working relationships with senior stakeholders across the council and beyond.

The role is a great opportunity to influence senior decision-makers across Greater Essex, generating insights that them to shape policy and to design interventions that improve the health, quality of life for and opportunity for some of our most challenged residents and communities.

In return, you can look forward an excellent rewards package, as well as flexible working and long-term career opportunities.

Responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for:

· leading a team that provides partners across Greater Essex with actionable insightful, research, evidence and recommendations that support the achievement of strategic priorities identified through engagement with partners and reflected in the HDRC’s research programme.

· operational leadership of a multi-disciplinary Research Collaboration spanning public services and the higher sector, contributing to the ongoing development of ECC’s research capability by developing the staff to advance their technical capabilities.

· supporting academic researchers leads and HDRC researchers in advancing compelling applications for research funding from organisations such as research councils, government bodies and charitable foundations.

· the line management of staff leading wider HDRC programmes ensuring that appropriate links are made between these programmes and with the wider work of partners.

· gathering and making available case studies, data and management information to enable the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the HDRC.

· progressing research projects through appropriate research governance processes, ensuring that the HDRC research is carried out in a meaningful and ethical manner.

· gathering and making available case studies, data and management information to enable the ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

· building effective and beneficial internal and external relationships.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

We’re looking for people with significant experience in delivering research and analysis for large, complex organisations. You’ll have a track record in delivering research that impacts strategic decision making.

We are looking for candidates who meet the following criteria:

· Educated to degree level or equivalent by experience.

· Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in a relevant area.

· Significant experience of undertaking research, analysis and/or providing an intelligence function to a large complex organisation.

· Significant experience of leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team to deliver positive outcomes.

· Extensive knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodology, ethical research practices and the Data Protection Act.

· Deep understanding of the legislative framework in which the Council operates.

· Demonstrable experience of working in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective.

For a copy of the HDRC Greater Essex Research Plan or an informal conversation please contact Alastair Gordon, HDRC Director and ECC’s Head of Profession for Research, at alastair.gordon@essex.gov.uk

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the link.

Interviews for this role will be scheduled between 17 th and 28 th June.

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk 

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