Research Leader – Occupational Health and Safety and Evidence at RAND Europe

Position Summary

RAND Europe’s Health and Wellbeing Research Group focuses on research and analysis that aims to improve healthcare, health and wellbeing and public health. We work at all levels of health policy, from individual initiatives to improve health service organisation and delivery to whole-system policy challenges, cross-sectoral issues such as safety and health, and wider policy challenges.

Our work on safety, health and wellbeing in the workplace is growing. We are building on a range of collaborations with public authorities (including the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work), the private sector (eg: working on Britain’s Healthiest Workplace with VitalityHealth), academic collaborators and philanthropic funders such as Lloyds Register Foundation. We are recruiting a Research Leader to help build and lead this expanding area.

This is an exciting opportunity working with the one of the world’s most respected public policy research organisations. It is ideally suited to a flexible and ambitious individual who is used to engaging with a wide range of stakeholders across the public, private and third sectors, who is interested in research across a wide variety of issues, and who enjoys playing a leading role as part of a talented team in a collegiate and fast-paced environment.

The role will be based in our Cambridge office and will lead research on safety and health in the workplace. This would be part of our expanding group working on evidence for safety and health and how it can be used in practice, as well as wider issues such as new technologies and ways of working, and wider wellbeing in the workplace.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and building a growing portfolio of research and analysis projects on safety and health in the workplace, including identifying opportunities, developing proposals and teams, successfully delivering projects and communicating evidence effectively;
• Providing thought leadership on safety and health in the workplace and innovative research methods to meet policy needs.
• Effectively managing colleagues and contributing to the overall objectives and values of the Health and Wellbeing Research Group and RAND Europe as a whole
• Contributing to wider development of RAND Europe.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• A research track record in one or more fields related to safety and health in the workplace with a demonstrable and strong track record of applying their research skills to policy problems.
• Experience of working across different countries and in with different stakeholders is an advantage, as is success in developing, winning and delivering research.
• Excellent skills in working as part of a team, leading and motivating others, mentoring and developing colleagues for career progression; and managing projects and budgets;
• An established network of contacts and partners offering the potential to develop collaborations and form teams to deliver first class research proposals and projects on safety and health.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (evidenced by examples) for varied audiences. Excellent English language skills are essential; additional language skills are an advantage.

Benefits

• Numerous benefits available on our website

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