Research and Insight Manager (Knowledge Mobilisation) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration

Leicestershire County Council; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council seeks a Research & Insight Manager to support the Health Determinants Research Collaboration. This role involves developing strategies to address health inequalities through research and community engagement. Ideal candidates will have a PhD in public health and experience in knowledge mobilisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in knowledge mobilisation strategies to increase research impact.
• Ability to assess and translate research for relevant audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a knowledge mobilisation strategy.
• Collaborate with local communities and universities to understand research priorities.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Knowledge Mobilisation

Education

PhD in Public Health

Job description

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8HD

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker (1-2 days in County Hall per week)

Salary: LCC Grade 12: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum (pay award pending)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 8th June 2025

Interview Date(s): Week commencing 30th June

Research & Insight Manager (Knowledge Mobilisation) - Health Determinants Research Collaboration

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the development of our Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC), which will help address health inequalities through building research evidence around the wider determinants of health. The Leicestershire HDRC is a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded research team led collaboratively by the County Council alongside partners from local universities.

We are looking for a Research & Insight Manager to help us develop our knowledge mobilisation capacity. This will include working with the HDRC team in Leicestershire County Council and collaborating with our partner universities, voluntary sector and communities. You will join a team that will work to achieve our project milestones over our 5-year plan, with the goal of reducing health inequalities.

You will develop and implement a knowledge mobilisation strategy so that research is informed by local need and findings are disseminated and integrated into service delivery and policy making to achieve a real impact. You will work with the wider HDRC team, local communities, voluntary sector and universities to understand research priorities, design, plan, bid for and implement research, with the goal of maximising impact.

You will support activity across each of our six pillars of culture change; Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation, Data, Governance, and Infrastructure, Research Training and Skills Development, Collaboration with anchor institutions, Monitoring, evaluation and improvement, and Knowledge Mobilisation.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have completed a PhD relevant to public health or wider determinants of health and/or evidence of equivalent research experience and be educated to degree level in a relevant subject and/or equivalent relevant experience.

• Have knowledge of research techniques and methodologies, and experience in knowledge mobilisation strategies and methods to increase research impact.

• Have knowledge and skills to support the development and management of research bids, providing advice on knowledge mobilisation aspects.

• Have experience of preparing and presenting research findings in innovative ways to enhance knowledge mobilisation, alongside high-quality publications, conference proceedings and study reports.

• Have experience of assessing, summarising and translating research through literature reviews, making it accessible for the relevant audience.

• Have experience of implementing research findings and evaluating the outcomes to provide demonstratable impact.

• Possess excellent interpersonal skills to engage with, support and constructively challenge HDRC partners, knowledge mobilisation networks, and managers across the Council.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Dr Sarah McNeill, Business Partner, Health Determinants Research Collaboration

Telephone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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