Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 30 Jul 2017
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Research Officer for Executive Director - Secretariat and Governance Contract: Permanent Salary: £33,420 - £39,896 Location: London Ref: DIR/05/17**
The UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
About us
ODI (www.odi.org.uk) aims to inspire and inform policy and practice to reduce poverty by locking together high-quality applied research and practical policy advice.
Overseas Development Institute is seeking a Research Officer for Executive Director who will be supporting the Executive Director with background research and preparation of proposals, speeches, concept notes and briefing notes.
The role will be supporting the Executive Director with background research and preparation of proposals, speeches, concept notes and briefing notes.
The successful candidate will fulfil the following requirements:
Research, draft and edit policy memos, articles, and research papers for the Executive Director
Provide specific technical inputs to ongoing research projects such as literature reviews, interviews, data analysis, editing blogs and op-ed’s for publication, policy memos, articles; in collaboration with the ODI publications team
Support research activities or leading parts of research projects including producing written outputs and synthesise/summaries findings for the Executive Director to facilitate decision making.
Anticipate external engagement in advance to support the Executive Director
Strengthen the link between the Executive Director and ODI Research teams.
Draft research reports, policy brief remarks, testimony and other documents for the Executive Director;
Prepare and drafting multimedia for Podcast content in collaboration with ODI’s communications team.
Organise multi-media outputs from research projects
Research, draft and edit concept notes and proposals for events, conferences, commissions, projects for the Executive Director
Provide daily support on the Executive Director’s social media in coordination with ODI’s Communications team
About you
Knowledge and Qualifications
- A Master’s degree in relevant discipline (or equivalent)
- Active knowledge of key international institutions in the sector and beyond
Experience
- Previous experience in an international policy development research environment, i.e. policy-oriented research, demonstrated by publications and reports
- Research background and experience writing short summaries, background briefings, evidence submissions
- Experience in meeting preparation
- Experience in drafting speeches
- Experience in shadow writing outputs
- Good knowledge of social media, digital platforms and web content best practice
Skills/Abilities
- Excellent writing, analytical, editing and proofing skills
- Ability to shape content for different audiences, particularly policy audiences.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate successfully and be cultural aware
- Strong attention to detail
- Self-starter – ability to generate plans and ideas and carry them through to completion
- Ability to work to strict deadlines and under pressure
- Strong IT skills, with excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office applications (MS Word in particular)
- Ability to work in a team
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage and prioritise tasks
- Experience of project management
Closing date: 30 July 2017
Interview date:15 August 2017. 2nd stage 18 August 2017.
How to apply:
For more information, please download an application pack from our website at www.odi.org.uk/jobs. If you are experiencing difficulties downloading, please telephone: 020 7922 0394|or email recruitment@odi.org.uk.**
ODI is an equal opportunities employer Charity Reg. No.228248