Research Officer Yeovil, Somerset, UK GBP 30-36,000 depending on experience (plus comprehensive benefits) - (posted Apr 15 2025)

Company: Abri
Advertisers Ref: MrWeb/Research Officer
MrWeb Ref: 162167

Job Spec:

Working hours per week 37. This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 6 days at 23:59 BST.

Your new role

Are you passionate about delivering research that influences and drives decision making? Do you have extensive primary and secondary research skills and experience creating action focused recommendations? Do you have experience working with both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

At Abri, we're looking for a Researcher to scope out, manage and conduct primary and secondary research projects and deliver high quality research driven insights from them.

The Insight team is a team of 19 and provide research, performance management, customer insight, business insight and analytics for Abri. This role is within the Research section of the team.

You'll use your research expertise to devise methodologies for research and data collection, will analyse and summarise research and produce high quality evidence based recommendations. You'll use your market research or business research experience to deliver a variety of research projects concurrently and will use stakeholder engagement experience to ensure research is embedded across Abri.

Please don't apply if you only have academic research experience, we're specifically looking for someone to join us from a market research or business research setting.

You'll be working from our Eastleigh (SO50 6AD) office a minimum of three days per week to connect and collaborate with colleagues and the other two days can be worked from a place of your choosing.

If you're someone with hands-on research experience, with a passion for ensuring research informs and improves, apply now so you don't miss out on the opportunity to join a team where your research skills will make a real impact, and will help shape our services and strategies for the better.


Who we are

Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage over 55,000 homes and various community assets, serving more than 120,000 customers across the South of England.

We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?

We're investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.

• We're delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it's needed most
• We're investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone.

As we grow, we're re-establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with our operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.

More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at www.abri.co.uk.


What you can expect

• 28 days holiday + the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10%
• Money off tons of high street and online retailers
• Life assurance of 5x your annual salary
• Generous parental and family leave
• Health and wellbeing packages
• Flexible working
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to Work scheme.

About you

We've all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It's these shared values that bring us together as one team.

Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.

If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you're on to a winner and we'd love to hear from you!


Be yourself

Abri is committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We want our colleagues to bring their individual differences, life experiences and knowledge into the workplace and we welcome their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.

To our agency friends

We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in-house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We're not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you'd like to be considered at a future date please don't hesitate to register on our procurement portal.

There'll be two stages of interviews.
Stage 1 initial telephone interview: 24th April
Stage 2 in person interview: 29th April.

Who to contact: To apply and for more details, see our web site.

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