Position Details
The Social Research Centre is dedicated to conducting world-class research to inform decision-making and advance our understanding of Australian Society and our place in the world. We are Australia’s leading provider of social and government research services and an acknowledged leader in high quality project execution, innovative and cutting-edge research methodology, and analysis and strategic thinking.
We are looking to appoint either Research Assistant or Research Associate, to the Evaluation and Qualitative Research team. The successful candidate will be responsible for contributing to client management, evaluation and research design and proposal writing, desktop research, data collection (predominantly qualitative), data management, and analysis and reporting for evaluation and research projects. The incumbent will understand what contributes to high quality evaluations and research and be able to implement rigorous standards within projects, including knowledge of ethical issues and their applications. They will be able to translate research into policy and practice so that project findings have a high degree of contextual utility and recommendations are pragmatic in their approach.