Research Officer (Creative Industries and Freelance)
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Research Officer (Creative Industries and Freelance)
Permanent Contract
£55,733 (plus £3,160 Inner London weighting)
Location: London, Waterloo (with some flexibility)
About Prospect
Prospect is a leading trade union that delivers advice, support, representation, and a voice for our members. We are a not-for-profit organisation with over 250 staff helping to support more than 150,000 people in specialist, professional and technical roles across the private and public sectors.
Our members want to get on at work. They work in a diverse range of professions, including energy, science, engineering, heritage, defence, entertainment and digital. As a union for modern working life we aim to get the best deal for our members by using evidence and building partnerships – while never being scared to call employers out when they get things wrong.
Our priorities are to grow our membership through attracting new members and to improve our impact, whether that is helping members win improvements at work or changing the policy environment which affects them.
Diversity is an important value for the trade union movement, and as an organisation we are passionate about promoting equality at work and are committed to it for all our staff; we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
Prospect is a great place to work - this role has access to our high-quality defined benefit pension scheme and 33 days annual leave each year. We offer a good work-life balance, flexible working options and offer support for training and development. This role is part of our research team and is based at our London Headquarters. The research team have a hybrid pattern of work with both office and homeworking. We will consider requests for flexible working.
Bectu Sector Research Officer role
The Bectu Sector of Prospect supports and represents our members working across the creative industries and is a growing part of the union. Many of our members in the Sector are freelance or self-employed workers and lots of our campaigning work is focused on their needs. Prospect is looking for an experienced research and policy professional to help us champion members’ roles in the creative sector, and to develop our policy work.
Bectu Sector members work across the creative industries in TV and film Production, theatres, live events and Broadcasting. They are a vital part of the union. And this job is about developing our work to support them in lobbying, campaigning, influencing public policy and engaging with employers.
The role will be part of our Research team at Prospect. Applicants should have good analytical skills, an ability to use data creatively, excellent writing skills and an ability to communicate effectively to a range of audiences. The successful applicant will be expected to develop our Bectu Sector policy work, whilst also contributing to the wider objectives of the research team. Knowledge of self-employment and tax and benefits issues would be desirable for this role.
You will need to:
- Respond to enquiries from negotiators and reps on negotiating issues
- Use their expertise to develop insights that assist the development of the union’s policy work in the Bectu sector, which can be used for lobbying, campaigning and social media work.
- Have an ability to analyse data from economic, statistical, and other information sources to produce guidance that assists Bectu’s bargaining agenda and policy work.
- Proactively develop policy in areas of expertise by analysing trends and assessing how this is likely to impact in Bectu areas.
- Provide thought leadership and develop policy initiatives that may include commissioning research from external providers.
- Develop and deliver presentations and training including online webinars.
- Want to make the world of work better for everyone through promoting membership and the values of the trade union movement
Where this role fits in
This role is part of our Research and Policy team. You will be working with colleagues in the research, negotiating and communications teams and with our volunteer representatives.
Employee Benefits include:
- Annual incremental salary steps until the maximum is reached.
- 33 days annual leave per year.
- Office closure over the Christmas period.
- Contributory defined benefit pension scheme with high employer contribution rate.
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers telephone counselling and a website with many useful toolkits.
- Eye care voucher scheme and cycle to work scheme.
- Access to Prospect member services benefits including shopping, travel, health and insurance discounts.
- Access to training to support career development
Application details
For further details please e-mail: recruitment@prospect.org.uk
Please see role profile at the bottom of this page to assist with completing the application.
Closing date: Wednesday 1 November 2023 – Noon
Interviews will be held on Thursday 16 November 2023, Waterloo – London.
Prospect is an equal opportunities employer
www.prospect.org.uk
About us
Prospect is a leading trade union that delivers advice, support, representation and a voice for our members. We are a not-for-profit organisation with over 250 staff helping to support more than 150,000 people in specialist, professional and technical roles across the private and public sectors. The Bectu Sector of Prospect represents both employees and freelancers working in Film, TV, Broadcasting and theatre and live events.
Our members want to get on at work. They work in a diverse range of professions, including energy, science, engineering, heritage, defence, entertainment and digital. As a union for modern working life we aim to get the best deal for our members by using evidence and building partnerships – while never being scared to call employers out when they get things wrong.
Our priorities are to grow our membership through attracting new members and to improve our impact, whether that is helping members win improvements at work or changing the policy environment which affects them.
Diversity is an important value for the trade union movement, and as an organisation we are passionate about promoting equality and equity at work and are committed to it for all our staff; we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
Prospect is a great place to work - We offer a good work-life balance, flexible working options and offer support for learning and development.
Employee benefits
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