Research Associate: Black Women's Health Manifesto

Location: Hybrid, contractually aligned to the Milton Keynes office, with some required office attendance and meetings in Milton Keynes.

Salary: £38,784 per year, pro rata for part-time hours.

Company

hirify.global is a UK university focused on flexible part-time higher education, widening access, and research excellence.

What you will do

• Undertake thematic analysis of Black Women's Health Manifesto community consultations and listening exercises.
• Develop and publish a database of Black Women's Health & Wellbeing organisations on the research network website.
• Support the Manifesto Coordinator with drafting the manifesto, a policy instrument, and a Health Improvement Framework.
• Contribute to the Wellcome Research Project scoping review and steering group.
• Help establish national planning groups, plan and deliver conferences across the UK and Ireland, and produce conference reports.
• Conduct online interviews and contribute to academic papers, knowledge products, and other outputs for donor, policymaker, and practitioner audiences.

Requirements

• Relevant postgraduate qualification in Social Science, Medical Sociology, Anthropology, or Public Health.
• Good qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills, with research and/or knowledge-exchange evidence commensurate to the position.
• Demonstrable understanding of the experience of Black women in the UK.
• Ability to work effectively independently and in a team, build rapport and trust sensitively with participants from different backgrounds, and think creatively.
• Proven ability to manage logistics in complex and changing environments.
• Excellent organisation skills, including collating, organising, and managing complex datasets independently while prioritising multiple tasks.
• Ability to work with educational partners across institutions and coordinate with senior academics at partner universities in the United States of America and Canada.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
• Ability to perform the role consistently with equality legislation and University policies.

Nice to have

• Doctoral-level qualification in a relevant health or social science research area, or progress towards one.
• Research or knowledge-exchange communications experience through publications, presentations, social media, blogs, or other digital platforms.
• Experience gathering data and/or conducting interviews remotely online.
• Experience with secondary data analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Part-time commitment of 88 days until 31 July 2027, anticipated at 0.54 FTE or 20 hours per week from a mid-December start.
• Flexible working discussions may include job share, part-time work, compressed hours, or another arrangement.
• Benefits, flexible working policies, and support for work-life balance are available.
• Travel expenses to the Milton Keynes site are not reimbursed.

Hiring process

• Interviews are likely to take place at the end of November through an online panel interview.
• Applications require a supporting statement of up to 1,000 words and a CV.