Research Assistant in London

The Research Assistant will assist the development and maintenance of high-quality primary evidence and analysis projects, working across a pipeline from design to evaluation. The role will have a particular focus on safety interventions, and quasi-experimental and trial methods. The Research Assistant will work within the Global Safety Evidence Centre to ensure that the Centre can provide clear, robust, relevant and timely evidence to inform policy and practice decision-making across sectors.

The Global Safety Evidence Centre is Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s hub for anyone who needs to know 'what works' to make people safer, collating the best safety evidence from partners and other sources and communicating it in an understandable and actionable form, and hosting the Foundation's own evidence outputs such as the flagship World Risk Poll.

What we offer you:

• The chance to join an organization with a clear sense of purpose, a values-based culture, and programs that support colleagues’ professional and personal growth.
• Part-time, 0.5 FTE.

The role:

• Assist in the design, conduct and evaluation of internal and external research projects.
• Maintain full and accurate documentation and be responsible for the security and accuracy of data related to projects you are involved in.
• Contribute to the quality assurance of all research and trial projects.
• Support and assist the Research and Trial Manager and other colleagues in different aspects of research and trial work with flexibility.
• Support the development and delivery of capacity building for research methodology and knowledge translation.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Global Safety Evidence Centre’s research methods and standards, and support regular review of the standards to incorporate learning and development in the field.

What you bring:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant field (e.g., engineering, public health, psychology, science) with a research methods element.
• Practical research experience.
• Advanced research methods knowledge, including both qualitative and quantitative study designs.
• Solid data manipulation skills, including understanding of data structure, data characteristics and relevant software.
• Highly developed analytical and critical reasoning skills, along with close attention to detail and experience examining technical and scientific documents.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with stakeholders when necessary.
• Ability to identify risks or issues early in a project life-cycle and communicate them effectively.
• Ability to work on one's own initiative and as part of a team, seeking input from research leads and colleagues where required.
• Experience working on intervention studies and evaluations.
• Familiarity with occupational safety and health, and/or engineering and its decision-making contexts and processes across sectors, is desirable.
• Candidates must be able to provide work authorisation for the respective country.

You are someone who:

• Is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs.
• Is able to self-manage and prioritize tasks towards reaching goals.
• Is effective at solving problems, trouble-shooting and making timely decisions.
• Is ready and willing to take initiatives.
• Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present technical ideas in user-friendly language.
• Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment.
• Responds positively to learning opportunities and is comfortable stepping out of own comfort zone.

About us:

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.

We care, we share, we do the right thing. If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register: Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job, anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work, and at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.