About This Role
Research Analysts play a crucial role in supporting a multidisciplinary team that delivers high-quality research and analysis. This work helps the Agency address knowledge gaps and make evidence-led decisions, contributing to established analytical products and exploratory research projects.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of the team's research programme, contributing to both established analytical products and exploratory research projects, and applying own initiative to identify and develop new insights
- Support the production and continuous development of the team's market insight products, including market overviews and forecasts, using complex data analysis, interpretation and written reporting to generate robust and actionable insights
- Undertake research and analysis across a broad range of economic, housing market, finance and place-based topics, from national trends and forecasts to localised projects, as well as sub-sector trends (Build to Rent, SME development, affordable housing, emerging tenures and other priority sectors where the Agency invests), generating insights that support the Agency's strategic decision-making
- Apply critical thinking and analytical judgement to explore, interpret and quality assure complex datasets, identifying and resolving methodological, data quality and analytical issues
- Contribute to a varied programme of research projects, including exploratory and data discovery work, using a range of methods such as statistical analysis, literature reviews, stakeholder engagement and evidence synthesis
- Translate complex findings into clear, concise and accessible insights through reports, briefings, presentations and other communications for a range of stakeholders, including senior colleagues
- Support the development and continuous improvement of the Agency's self-service insight products and analytical resources, helping colleagues access and use data and evidence effectively
- Build effective and collaborative working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the Agency, contributing expertise and insight to achieve shared objectives
- Support the wider team to complete their outputs to the highest standard, working collaboratively and supportively across the wider Research, Economics and Geospatial (REG) function
Requirements
- Technical skills to hit the ground running
- Positive attitude to learning and gaining practical knowledge to operate at the highest standard
- Resilient to change
- Open to collaborative working
- Able to think critically to deliver on multiple projects at once
- Interest in regeneration and housing
- Growth mindset
- Problem-solving focus
- Willingness to engage in opportunities to learn
