Description
Role title: Senior Analyst (Research)
TPR grade & pay group: R&O Grade 8 - Specialist
Directorate:Strategy, Policy and Analysis (SPA)
Starting salary: Salary of £46,211 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office
Closing Date: 19th February 2025
The role and responsibilities
Ready to use your expertise by designing and delivering robust primary research to shape policy for millions of savers? At The Pensions Regulator (TPR), we’re seeking a Senior Research Analyst who can turn data into actionable evidence. If you’re passionate about using research and insight to influence regulatory decisions, have hands-on experience conducting primary research, and can translate findings into compelling, evidence-based stories for stakeholders, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.
In this role, you’ll lead and deliver research projects that inform and evaluate strategy and policy across the pensions landscape. From designing robust studies to managing qualitative and quantitative analysis, you’ll work on complex, meaningful questions - collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and engaging stakeholders to tell compelling, evidence-based stories.
We’re looking for a skilled and independent research analyst who thrives on undertaking research and turning findings into actionable insights and clear, strategic recommendations.You should be fully proficient at managing research agencies and adding value at all stages when working with them, as well as running surveys and analysis independently. You’ll also need to be proactive in applying innovative approaches to maximise the impact of our research and experienced at delivering high quality work at pace.
We are looking for collaborative researcher, who is comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams and with stakeholders across TPR, taking a leading role on topic-based evidence gathering exercises. Supporting the Principal Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work with junior analysts within the team, providing leadership and guidance on both scoping projects and the analytical delivery.
As TPR’s regulatory needs evolve, you will need to be able to flexibly pivot to focus on new work areas.
The role criteria
Essential
- Postgraduate education in a relevant subject (e.g. social research methods) or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in using independent judgement to conduct hypothesis-led research, applying original thought and judgement to strategic questions and multi-faceted problems
- Lead and manage projects/work streams, coordinating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely deliveries, including working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Expert proficiency in research design (ideally across both quantitative and qualitative methods), including at least one of the following: longitudinal panel, cross sectional, cohort studies and quasi experimental design
- Expert/practitioner level of research analysis including descriptive statistics, simple statistical testing (T-tests, chi squared), qualitative coding and visualisation of data
- Strong communication skills of complex research findings to explain relevance of insights and translate evidence into business needs
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the UK pensions industry.
- Expertise in managing high value research procurement processes
- Expert/practitioner experience of survey software, including complex routing.
Person Specification
- Proactive and flexible.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Personable and a team player.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
The team
TPR offers:
Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
A values-led, inclusive environment.
Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women’s).
Reward and benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Our culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
Find out more about us.
Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.
Selection and interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the ‘what you will bring’ section will be offered an interview.
Diversity and inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees,
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.
