Analyst, Polling, Audience Insights Hub

Description

How you'll contribute

• Contributing to the polling side of the Audience Insight Hub practice, taking responsibility for polling and survey work on assigned projects.
• Working with the wider team, conducting polling projects to a good standard where required. That means taking time to understand the goals of a project, writing good questionnaires and other research inputs and conducting high quality analysis. In doing this, you will provide network members with clear and evidence-led recommendations on how to implement insight findings, influencing the process of campaign development and strategy where relevant.
• Maintaining our tracking data on investor and public audiences, as well as helping to communicate their findings across GSCC and the wider climate/energy sector.
• Finding ways to improve the polling work at AIH practice, developing innovative new methodological ideas and offers to the network.
• Tracking, interpreting and compiling new audience analysis, polling, and the latest insights and developments in audience insight for an audience of communications professionals.
• Proactively engaging colleagues to champion and enable the use of polling, segmentation and other audience analysis approaches (eg message testing) across the team.
• Collaborating with audience insight practitioners and experts in the broader community on larger audience insight projects.
• Conducting rapid literature reviews on varied topics affecting the climate movement.
• Any other duties to be assigned from time to time

Our ideal candidate has

• Proven experience conducting quantitative research projects, especially in a political or issue-based context.
• Good understanding of the art and science of audience insights. Understanding of audience insight work outside western geographies will be valued.
• Knowledge of the political and electoral contexts of leading countries/states will be an advantage.
• Insight into the challenges of undertaking audience analysis across multiple geographies and contexts.
• Understanding of how to design polling to influence specific media targets and other audiences.
• A track record of working with/for polling agencies on strategic communications work, and a strong understanding of the field.
• Significant experience of a wide range of audience insight approaches - polling, focus groups, message testing, audience segmentation - and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Familiarity with social media and other platforms, and/or designing online message testing and audience analysis work.
• Experience presenting findings to internal and external audiences and contributing insights from research effectively. Data visualisation and presentation skills will be valued.
• An entrepreneurial and collaborative approach.
• The strong multidisciplinary skills necessary to flourish in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment and work nimbly across phone/video conferencing, time zones, slack, email, Trello, etc.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language; additional languages are an asset.
• A genuine interest in and passion for addressing climate change.
• The disposition to work generously with colleagues in a high-trust global community of peers.
• The versatile and adaptable skills necessary to flourish in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment and work across time zones using tools such as Zoom, Slack and email (Google Workspace).
• Knowledge of climate change and energy will be useful, but is not essential.
• Familiarity with languages other than English (especially Spanish, Portuguese and any of the languages of major Asian countries) will be an advantage, but is not essential.

Why join us?

• Be part of a remote-first, international network of professionals working on climate, energy and nature. We offer coworking access in some locations.
• Work with a bunch of dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who combine their passion to make a difference with a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work.
• Enjoy regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
• A full-time position with a consultant or employment contract, subject to location, for 12 months, with possible renewal after one year. Only candidates with the right to work in their location will be considered.

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