Research Manager at World Animal Protection

The Role

• In this engaging research position, you will provide expertise across the range of our global campaigns and work alongside colleagues leading and supporting the development and delivery of essential research to achieve a lasting impact for animals.
• You will develop effective research based approaches that will underpin campaign strategies with high quality information and data. Conducting desk research through a range of scientific techniques and investigative approaches you will provide the evidence to enable Campaign teams to deliver our global objectives. Important will be the ability to ensure research is delivered on time and within budget.
• You will also build relationships and wider networks to support your work, develop tools for campaigns and manage any associated project activity and external engagement. Time will be spent in the field where you will engage with external and internal stakeholders where you will need to be able to build relationships in order to support the campaigns. This could be in an external affairs capacity or other field based research capacity.

This exciting opportunity offers the successful candidate the chance to apply their academic knowledge in the real world. You will be able to use your research to help us move the world to protect animals, making this a highly rewarding role.

Requirements

• A graduate in a science, animal science, legal, political, journalism or similar discipline
• You will be an experienced and highly motivated researcher with a track record of developing and delivering research led approaches to achieve specific outcomes. Both desk and field based research.
• You will have worked on primary evidence gathering in a scientific and / or academic environment and are familiar with relevant methodologies and processes.
• You will have a good understanding of outreach, research and information gathering processes and techniques as well as being familiar with the operational and tactical delivery of (preferably global) research findings.
• A good communicator you will possess first class project management, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of animal welfare or conservation and environmental issues would be an advantage.