Research Manager, Brighton UK, one year fixed term contract

Exciting opportunity for a Research Manager

Salary: £26k to £28k pro rata depending upon experience
Hours: part-time, 3 days or 22.5 hours per week, one year contract

Culture24 is looking for a dynamic and experienced Research Manager to join our small, friendly team at our busy Brighton office. You will oversee a programme of research as part of a multi-partner international project promoting digital cultural content to tourists. You will also support an in-house project on tracking and measuring user engagement online and offline.

Culture24 is leading one of several work packages within the three-year ‘Europeana Awareness’ project. Our role is to establish new partnerships and distribution services to channel content from Europeana into existing, established mass-market tourism-facing services online.

The Research Manager role will encompass planning, project management, research, analysis and report production. You will be researching user needs across several project constituencies – tourists, public sector tourism bodies, commercial tourism publishers and non-commercial cultural data aggregators. You will also manage related research work being undertaken by partner organisations in Croatia, Ireland and Luxembourg.

In addition you will work with our senior management team to plan and implement an in-house project identifying, tracking and analysing a range of measures around user and partner engagement with Culture24’s products and services. There will also be opportunity to support the senior team in the delivery of multi-partner collaborative action research projects into user engagement with online cultural content.

Your skills and experience will include:
· Excellent, proven research skills
· Excellent, proven project management skills
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· The ability to work in a self-motivated, thorough way

More about Culture24 here: www.weareculture24.org.uk
More about Europeana Awareness here: http://weareculture24.org.uk/projects/europeana-awareness

A full job description, person specification and application form is available for download here: http://bit.ly/wvSdO7

To apply for this position, please download and fill in the application form and return it along with a covering letter telling us why you are the right person for this job to: tessa@culture24.org.uk Please do not submit CVs.

Deadline for receipt of application form and letters:
10am, Monday March 26th

Interviews will be held at Culture24 offices in Brighton on:
Friday 30th March 2012 (subject to availability)