Research Engagement Manager

The role supports the Research and Insight (R&I) team in generating and sharing valuable knowledge about cultural relations. Key responsibilities include:

• Engaging and influencing stakeholders through high-quality research dissemination activities (such as reports, policy briefs, social media, meetings).


• Expanding engagement with external partners to apply research insights, inform strategy, and gain advocacy.


• Project managing the British Council podcast Our World, Connected.


• Designing and advising on communication platforms and content for effective research dissemination and engagement.


• Planning and delivering research dissemination and knowledge sharing programmes with internal and external partners.


• Ensuring British Council strategy benefits from R&I insights and making materials accessible to internal stakeholders.


Accountabilities:


• Provides expert advice to stakeholders to improve practices


• Pursues professional development and contributes to training colleagues


• Project manages the team's podcast and acts as first point of contact with the production team


• Contributes to raising profile and reputation externally and internally by participating in webinars and podcasts, and contributing to blogs, focusing on our research expertise and output


• Provides advice on communication mechanisms, channels and platforms most suitable to reach and engage priority stakeholders and partners, considering the available and potential insight and content from the British Council portfolio


• Collaborates with Marketing and Communications teams to optimise communication channels


• Coordinates with the Knowledge Exchange Manager on delivering the Knowledge Exchange strategy


• Understands the operational context and needs of internal customers


• Consults with external stakeholders to align services with their needs


• Develops networks to enhance knowledge and expertise


• Builds relationships with external partners to highlight R&I outputs


• Manages project budgets


• Curates and utilises data, evidence and research to understand impact
  
  Experience of using a range of tools, including software, to communicate ideas to a variety of audiences


• Experience of tailoring complex ideas to an engaged but non-expert audience


• Experience of working with senior managers and high level stakeholders.


• Experience of managing or undertaking research dissemination projects or initiatives to engage stakeholders with research and evidence
  
  We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.


We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021-22 we reached 650 million people., We support the British Council to be an organisation guided by evidence, knowledge and insight, one that is confident in its voice as a cultural relations thought leader and a credible partner, and one that is generous in sharing its knowledge and insight in core areas, particularly across our core sectors of English, Education and Arts.

As a team, we aim to role model the British Council value of being 'expert and inclusive'. The team is currently based across in locations across the UK and South Asia. We support a community of practice of more than 200 members across the global network.

We have two core outcomes:
1. Research to ensure the British Council is a trusted and valued provider of knowledge and soft power insight for the UK and overseas stakeholders.
2. Well evidenced analysis and understanding of how the totality of our work across the English, Education and Arts sectors generates soft power effects for the UK within priority countries, The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.

We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council's Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.