Research Lead

Salary: £38,750 per annum

Watershed is seeking to recruit a Research Lead to develop and oversee the delivery of Watershed’s Research partnerships and programme.

They will approach this in ways that are critical, creative and inclusive; celebrating new knowledge and challenging established hierarchies of how it is generated, and for whom. They will have an editorial voice, spotting themes and trends across the programme and from further afield. They will ensure that thinking is captured and shared across the organisation and with the wider community.

They will nurture a culture of shared responsibility in the Research team, supporting Producers to have agency in their work and to be fully engaged with and reflective about the programme. Working with the Executive Producer they will lead a process of co-design to set and share an annual research strategy, and agree associated targets against the Watershed Business Plan – striving for the best balance between sustainability, experimentation and innovation. Our current Business Plan identifies extending our work with Black and Minority Ethnic communities and Deaf and Disabled communities as a focus and we are committed to foregrounding this as a priority within our research work.

The Research Lead will combine team leadership with producing key projects (agreed as part of their annual objectives). They will hold the budget for the Research programme; working with colleagues to direct investment, track spend, identify possible savings and respond to income generation opportunities.

For the full job description and access to the online application portal, click here.

The closing date for this position is 15/10/2020 at 17:00