Quantitative Evaluation & Research Associate

King's College London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

King’s College London’s Policy Institute seeks a Research Associate (Evaluation Manager) to lead quantitative evaluation projects across education, homelessness, and youth employment. You will design studies, manage data, and contribute to funding proposals, working with government bodies, charities and partners.

The role emphasizes advanced quantitative methods, experience with R (Stata welcomed), and strong communication and coordination skills within a busy research environment.

Qualifications

• A PhD in a relevant subject or equivalent professional experience (3-5 years in a research role).
• Practical experience developing quantitative analysis plans and/or trial protocols.
• Substantial experience cleaning, managing, and analysing large or complex datasets with a strong command of R (preferred) or Stata, and ability to produce clear, well-documented code.
• Advanced training in, and applied experience of, quantitative research methods, such as statistics or econometrics, and programme evaluation methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches (e.g., randomised controlled trials, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity) and matching approaches.
• Practical experience applying quantitative research methods to evaluation or research projects, for instance managing quantitative workstreams within projects in the areas the team works on: education, employment, financial inclusion, violence reduction, homelessness, or civic/political participation.
• Excellent project management, organisational and time-management skills, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a project team across multiple projects.
• Experience working on commissioned research or consultancy-style projects, including managing relationships with funders and other project stakeholders and partners.
• Experience of designing survey studies and/or of analysing survey data
• Experience applying for research and evaluation project funding through applying to tenders

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering impact evaluations to assess the impacts of interventions on key outcomes, using experimental and quasi-experimental approaches
• Conducting implementation and process evaluations to explore how interventions operate in practice and how they are experienced by those involved.
• Supporting organisations to develop robust internal evaluation capacity, including the systems, skills and processes needed to embed evaluation in their work.

Skills

Quantitative methods

Statistics

Econometrics

Programme evaluation

Experiment design

Data analysis

R

Stata

Project management

Communication

Education

PhD in a relevant subject or equivalent professional experience

Tools

R

Stata

Job description

King’s College London’s Policy Institute seeks a Research Associate (Evaluation Manager) to lead quantitative evaluation projects across education, homelessness, and youth employment. You will design studies, manage data, and contribute to funding proposals, working with government bodies, charities and partners.

The role emphasizes advanced quantitative methods, experience with R (Stata welcomed), and strong communication and coordination skills within a busy research environment.