Overview

Position Title: Senior Research Officer

Company: Office for National Statistics

Location: Cardiff

Job Description:

The Office for National Statistics provides pivotal statistics to give insight into different areas of society and our economy such as health and expenditure.

Responsibilities:

  • Production and publication of high-quality national statistics
  • Discrete pieces of analysis to provide context and understanding around statistical outputs
  • Development of new methods, production systems and dissemination to make sure we meet data users’ changing needs
  • Leading and conducting qualitative research (including focus groups, cognitive interviewing, pop-up research, usability testing and so on) with the public and analysis of findings
  • Leading on the designing and development of questionnaires for social and economic surveys (suitable for paper, telephone, face-to-face and online self-completion) using qualitative research methods
  • Management of less experienced researchers and building their capability
  • Helping customers (including government departments) make the best use of our statistics through answering their questions on standard outputs or conducting additional analysis
  • Assisting with research to understand administrative datasets and how they can be used in the production of official statistics
  • Contributing to quality assurance and production of statistical publications and research reports
  • Reporting findings through presentations, at ‘show and tell’ meetings, and through papers to a variety of audiences, both in the UK and internationally
  • Liaising closely with other staff across ONS to share knowledge and develop expertise
  • Using specialist statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R or equivalent to support this research
  • Survey design and management

Requirements:

  • To be eligible to apply for this Government Social Research, Senior Research Officer role you need to fulfil the criteria of one of the following three routes- Qualification route, Badged route and Experienced route.

About Office for National Statistics

We're the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to Parliament. We are the UK Government's single largest statistical producer.