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Research Consultants

Employer
Hatch
Location
London, London, GB
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Mar 22, 2021

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Requisition ID: 39470

Job Category:Infrastructure

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we understand that challenges are changing rapidly in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Are you passionate about making a positive difference for people, places and economies? Do you want to work with some of the best economists, strategists and urban regeneration

consultants in the UK and internationally?

The Roles: Research Consultants

Hatch is recruiting Research Consultants to join our Urban Solutions teams in Manchester and London. Your research and analytical skills will have an important part to play in the interesting and diverse consultancy projects we deliver. Our innovative research covers a broad range of projects and sectors including employment, industrial sectors, skills, innovation, infrastructure, energy, land and property, culture, leisure and tourism.

You will make a vital contribution to the evidence, insights and advice we provide for our clients. The key responsibilities of our Research Consultants typically include collecting and analysing economic and social data, reviewing policy and research, supporting consultations we carry out for projects, contributing to the drafting of reports and the presentation of findings, and participating in client and project team meetings. Our Research Consultants also develop their skills in technical areas such as survey design, mapping and economic and social impact modelling.

Who We Are: About Hatch

Urban Solutions is the economics, urban planning and real estate strategy arm of Hatch, delivering strategic economic development services to public and private clients. In the UK our Urban Solutions team works closely with our Environmental and Advisory groups, and the successful candidates will be encouraged to work on projects in these other divisions as well as Urban Solutions.

Our consultants and analysts support our clients by:

  • Defining the future: We provide forward thinking about city futures and place-making, working on strategies, visions, investment and delivery plans.
  • Securing investment: We support our clients to secure investment in projects by preparing business cases and economic appraisals.
  • Assessing impacts: We enable our clients understand their impacts through social value and economic impact assessments, strategies to maximise the economic and social benefits they deliver, and evidence that helps make their case.
  • Establishing what works: We identify lessons to improve performance and increase impacts through the evaluation of programmes, projects and organisations.


We are a global company, which will give you the opportunity to work on a wide range of consultancy projects both within the UK and internationally.

Hatch is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change.

With Urban Solutions offices in Manchester and London, Hatch has a strong presence across the UK, and a pool of leading technical experts across the globe. The skills and expertise of Hatch are available to enable our clients to solve the challenges they face and help them make better, more informed decisions.

Your Development: Training and Support

We are committed to developing our consultants to become the best they can be. You will benefit from a positive and supportive work culture where people are supported to realise their full potential. We provide full training and support to develop your career, with opportunities to work with and learn from colleagues across our UK and international offices. You will receive a structured training programme to develop your practical and technical skills for consultancy, with hands on project experience from the moment you join us. Throughout your first year, a specific colleague will provide guidance and support to help you settle in.

Requirements

We are interested in people who are:
  • Keen to learn and develop new skills
  • Enthusiastic about working as part of consultancy teams
  • Committed to using intelligence and data to help clients make informed choices about strategy and investment
  • Interested in economic, social, environmental and technological change in the world

Ideally, you will have:
    • a degree, probably in subject areas such as economics, geography and planning, development/ international development, social research and public policy, data science and analytics etc.
    • strong numeric and analytical skills
    • effective writing and presentation skills
    • good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team
    • ability to problem solve and think through complex questions


What We Offer

We offer a generous salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, in addition to flexible working arrangements and a path to other unique opportunities due to our employee ownership model. For personal development, we provide a supportive working environment, backed by a network of development and welfare managers. We offer a subsidised flexible benefits package, with benefits you can select from including a private health scheme, gym membership, dental insurance, purchase of annual leave, a cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.

Hatch is committed to equality of opportunity as an employer and service provider, and we recognise that people are our greatest asset. Equality and Diversity are a central part of our culture across the whole organisation. These beliefs are integrated into our recruitment, services, policies and general working and they help us achieve our objectives and meet our clients’ needs. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, especially underrepresented groups. All applicants are treated equally and selected on the basis of individual merit and ability to meet the requirements of the business.

Interested? Then join us!

To find out more about us, see hatch.com/urbansolutions and our LinkedIn page

Tell us in your cover letter why you are keen to pursue a career with us, what interests you about the fields we work in, and what you would bring to Hatch. Please specify which office (London or Manchester) you prefer. Interviews are currently being carried out remotely using Microsoft Teams.

We are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected status. If you have any special needs requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.

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