AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI - Medical Research Council, we are looking for an Involvement & Engagement Strategy Lead (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract hybrid working (travel required to various locations including London).

Job Purpose:

UKRI are looking to recruit an interim IESL to provide strategic involvement and engagement for the new Adolescent Health Study project and to support the Director of AHS and the senior executive team to deliver the tasks as detailed below.

About the Adolescent Health Study

AHS will be a new longitudinal population study and data platform to enable research on critical biological and social factors that affect development during adolescence, with a key focus on health equity. It is designed to be representative of the full range of socioeconomic and ethnic diversity in the UK, including groups that are often underrepresented in population research. AHS plans to recruit 100,000 participants between the ages of 8-18 years across multiple study sites.

As an Involvement & Engagement Strategy Lead, your main responsibilities will be:

• Defining the issue and developing a project plan within one month contract start date
• Conducting background research and establishing the evidence base
• Identifying issues, developing principles and communicating insights and recommendations
• Managing stakeholder engagement in the process of developing the strategy; establishing strong advisory relationships with key external and internal stakeholders, specifically young people, schools, teachers, parents and relevant others
• Producing a range of targeted outputs to inform & assist the AHS director and study team, including a final strategy document within 3 months of contract start date
• Planning and supervising any direct engagement work undertaken to inform the strategy (with young people or others)
• Planning and supervising initial engagement work around protocol and participant facing documentation
• Supporting the AHS director and study team in developing understanding and approach to youth engagement in the study, providing ongoing active guidance
• Offering budgeting advice on stakeholder engagement for the programme and input on best practices

You'll have:

• Ability to analyse, review and evaluate data and research on young people’s lives, views and experiences
• Expertise at producing summaries, briefings and recommendations for mixed audiences (research, policy and practice)
• Project management expertise, ability to autonomously plan and deliver to time and budget
• Understanding of the ethical and safeguarding frameworks that will frame the work
• Demonstrable communication skills (writing, presenting, summarising)
• High level of organisational skills, ability to manage own work
• Good IT skills (Word, excel etc)
• Degree level or equivalent academic qualifications in a relevant discipline

Desirable:

• Expert knowledge of key issues in adolescent health and youth engagement in research
• Experience of youth engagement in practice
• Experience of a broad range of engagement work including with schools, parents etc.
• PhD level or equivalent academic qualifications

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability confident :

As a member of the disability confident scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant:

UKRI guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".