The Department of Energy and Climate Change is responsible for ensuring the UK has secure, affordable energy and for the UK’s role in domestic and international efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. The Department supports the Secretary of State and the Ministerial team to deliver the Government’s energy and climate change policies. The Department has three priorities:
- Driving investment in the UK’s energy infrastructure and supporting growth.
- Helping households and businesses take control of their energy bills.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the UK and internationally.
DECC is recruiting three talented social researchers to join its dynamic social research and evaluation community. Candidates need to demonstrate an excellent grasp of research/evaluation methods and an ability to communicate with impact, but it is not necessary to have prior knowledge of energy efficiency and heating issues.
The Research Officer role will be within the Customer Insight Team, working on a range of energy efficiency programmes. The focus will be on business behaviour research with opportunities to engage in domestic household and community areas.
Working with a Principal Research Officer to support DECC's Customer Insight Programme, this role will include:
- Commissioning and managing a range of qualitative and quantitative research supporting policy development and evaluation, working with policy colleagues and other analysts to ensure evidence needs are met
- Ensuring that research and evaluation products have maximum impact, and meet the needs of different audiences
- Engaging with other policy programmes and related evaluation plans across DECC to ensure synergies are being exploited and findings will be complementary and lead to a broader understanding of the impact of DECC policies
- Engaging with the wider research community, developing links to source evidence from research conducted by industry and academia, ensuring that useful findings are brought into the programme, and influencing where appropriate
For further information and to apply, please visit CS Jobs.
The closing date is 22nd April 2015.
DECC values equality and diversity in employment and welcomes applications from all sectors of society.
