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About the Role
More in Common is seeking a Research Manager to oversee and deliver high-quality research projects. They will work across our core areas of research for clients, media and communications, political polling and partnerships. This role is based in our London office Monday-Thursday with Friday at the office or working at home.
Responsibilities
- Design and manage quantitative and qualitative research projects from inception to delivery, ensuring methodological rigour.
- Provide excellent client management to partners and ensure all outputs for clients are high-quality.
- Lead on survey design, questionnaire development, and analysis of public opinion data, including complex polling and focus group datasets and transcripts.
- Synthesize findings into clear, compelling narratives that provide actionable insights for clients.
- Stay abreast of developments in research methodology, polling practice, and the UK public opinion landscape, bringing new approaches into More in Common's work.
- Contribute to the development of More in Common's research agenda, identifying gaps and opportunities for new projects.
- Secure new research projects by building relationships with and reaching out proactively to potential partners, cultivating opportunities in areas of relevance to our mission.
- Represent More in Common in external settings including media appearances, roundtables, events and conferences.
- Communicate research findings to diverse audiences including policymakers, civil society, and the media.
- Build and maintain relationships with research partners, academic institutions, and partner organisations.
- Line-manage and support the development of research associates, providing day-to-day guidance, feedback, and structured professional development.
- Contribute to organisational planning and team management processes.
- Support a hard-working, intellectually-curious and fun team culture, modelling More in Common's values internally and externally.
- Play an active role in organisational development, including contributing to hiring processes, onboarding and team culture.
Requirements
- Experience leading research projects for clients in a professional, rather than academic, setting.
- Applied professional experience of client management.
- Demonstrable experience leading high-quality quantitative and qualitative research projects in a client-facing, professional context, including ideally public opinion research or polling.
- Experience working at pace to deliver high-quality outputs for paying clients.
- A strong understanding of the UK political system and a keen interest in current affairs and public policy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience interpreting quantitative and qualitative data and producing outputs that tell a compelling story from this data.
- Experience or the demonstrable ability to secure funding for new research projects or other new business.
- Curiosity for understanding and engaging people, and a desire to use data to tell insightful stories about Britain today.
- Intellect, aptitude, and experience to date, and willingness to tackle big issues.
Skills
- Quantitative analysis skills
- Coding proficiency
- Data visualisation skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experience leading research projects for clients in a professional setting
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Private health insurance
- Generous leave policy
- Personal learning and growth budget
About the Company
- More in Common is an international NGO working across the US, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Spain and Brazil to tackle polarisation and division.
- More in Common leads and supports initiatives to build more united, inclusive, and resilient societies.
- Our mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, help societies find common ground and bring people together to tackle shared challenges.
- In the UK, our work is best described as being part consultancy and part think tank.
- We provide a full suite of research services including polling and focus group research; evidence reviews and secondary data analysis; audience mapping and audience strategy; strategic communications strategy and campaign development.
- More in Common are members of the British Polling Council.
- Our work is informed by our ground-breaking segmentation of the British public.
- This unique values-based lens to our quantitative and qualitative research means we can understand not only what the public thinks of the big challenges facing British society today – but crucially why they think it.
- Our insights help leaders in government, the media, business, and civil society to develop better strategies and communications – particularly in reaching disengaged communities far from the Westminster/London bubble – and to better navigate tricky and divisive issues.
- Over the last year, More in Common has published agenda-setting thought leadership on a whole range of debates facing British society.
- Our work is regularly covered in the British press and media and we’ve developed a series of partnerships with broadcasters and newspapers to deliver top-quality research insights.
- In the 2024 General Election, we were among Britain’s most accurate pollsters and used our focus group research to put people and public opinion at the centre of coverage of the election campaign.
- Through our consultancy, More in Common has also supported dozens of partners with insights and strategic communications support.
- We’ve helped national institutions such as the BBC, British Library and National Trust to better understand their audiences.
- We’ve helped partners in government and civil society with the set-up and delivery of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
- We’ve supported a range of partners to test their policy proposals from the National Farmers Union to Rethink Mental Illness among many others.
- In the second half of 2026, More in Common has a range of exciting projects in the pipeline.
Equal Opportunity
- We will have a better chance of uniting divided societies if our team reflects a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds, beliefs, political opinions, and life experiences.
- We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented and minority communities.
- More in Common wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in our equality policy.
- This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010.
- We will include a set of questions related to this in our email acknowledging your application for this role - this will help us understand the diversity of our job applicants.
- Answering these questions are completely voluntary and anonymous.
- The information provided will be kept confidential and will not be linked to your application.
- The information is going to be used to help us understand the diversity of our organisation.