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Hays are working with the Northern Ireland Assembly to recruit for a Research Officer within the specialist area of Public Finance/Economics.

Your new role
You will work directly with Assembly Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and Committees, and officials working within the Assembly and elsewhere, to support Assembly business. Central to the Research Officer’s role are both: the production of non-partisan, objective and evidence-based research; and, the timely delivery of accurate written and oral briefings reporting research findings that are routinely published online. Each Research Officer working in the Public Finance Scrutiny Unit (PFSU) within RaISe’s Finance and Economics Research Team is primarily responsible for delivering such research and briefings in the areas of Public Finance and Economics.
Job Description:

• Main duties and responsibilities of the Research Officers working within the PFSU are to:
• Engage with individual MLAs, Assembly Committees, senior officials within the Assembly and elsewhere, in order to understand their research requirements and facilitate Assembly business;
• Retrieve and synthesise information from a wide range of sources (governmental and non-governmental);
• Provide timely, accurate, high quality and impartial research and analysis on subjects related to this post, to individual MLAs, Assembly Committees, senior managers within the Assembly Secretariat and other parliaments/assemblies;
• Produce a range of written research outputs, including customised research papers, legislative analysis briefings, training materials and blog posts, which are accurate, well written, concise and accessible;
• Present research briefings, including to individual MLAs, Assembly Committees and respond to their questions, including during public sessions, and others;
• Facilitate public events, such as those which form part of the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (KESS) annually delivered at Parliament Buildings;
• Proactively forge and develop links with government officials and external research institutions/bodies/communities (academic and non-academic), including other parliamentary/assembly library and research services;
• Work collaboratively and collegially with colleagues inside and outside RaISe, while meeting all relevant Assembly standards, including RaISe-specific;
• Contribute to the development of RaISe, including identifying potential new outputs and improved service delivery, and helping to deliver same;
• Carry out such other duties as may be required, which fall within the remit of RaISe;
• Comply with relevant Assembly policies, practices and procedures, including the Assembly’s Equal Opportunities and Dignity at Work policies and procedures, and those that are RaISe-specific; and,
• Carry out other duties that the Assembly Commission reasonably requires.

What you’ll need to succeed
Be in possession of at least a primary degree, minimum 2:1 classification, or formal qualifications of an equivalent or higher standard, which contained at least 50% of the course content relating to Public Finance/Economics;
AND
Following completion of the above qualification, have at least three years of work experience* in both a) and b) below, in the areas of Public Finance/Economics:
a) undertaking objective, non-partisan, evidence-based research that draws on a wide variety of reliable sources (governmental and non-governmental – for example, databases, journals (academic and non-academic), survey/census data, public (including third sector) and private sectors, the media, other);ANDb) writing and presenting objective, non-partisan, evidence-based research reports/papers that informed discussion and decision making relating to policy development.

What you’ll get in return

• £27.03 per hour
• Maternity Cover

Closing – 21st August 2025 at 2pm
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Skills:
Research Public Finance Economics produce reports Northern Ireland Assembly

Benefits:
£27.03 per hour