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Research Assistant

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United Kingdom

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

The Research Assistant is an integral role within the quantitative research team. You will be part of a small team responsible for ensuring the quality of our in-house online surveys. This involves managing and co-ordinating the checking of questionaires, links, and dummy data prior to launch, and liaising with Research Managers to ensure the highest quality across all our surveys. Another part of this role is to support the delivery of our tracker outputs.

What you'll do:

Quality checking of all our internally programmed online surveys to ensure Survey logic and routing works as per the signed-off script (and makes sense to the respondent)
Question language/wording makes sense from a respondent perspective
All soft launched survey data is pulling through correctly
Any survey drop-out areas are identified and remedied to ensure maximum possible response rate
Running tabulated aggregated analysis using Decipher/Focus Vision platform for key tracking surveys according to specifications – working with Research Managers to spec out and ensure analysis meets stakeholders requirements
Liaising with our Analytics team to help runs scripts / apply weights to our Research data.
Working with the Data Engineering and DP colleagues to ensure quality across all key trackers

What you'll bring:

A proven track record of questionnaire design within a Research Team / Company
A proven track record of data analysis and tabulation within a Research Team / Company
Ability to understand survey logic, identify logic errors, and make logic recommendations
Very strong attention to detail
Extremely organised
Experience of working to tight deadlines
Good communicator, confident in both written and verbal communications
Demonstrate good listening skills, asking insightful questions and seeking further clarification where necessary
Proficiency with FocusVision / Decipher platform or similar analysis platform such as Q
An interest in modern procedural programming language (R, Python, VBA, etc.) would be highly beneficial but not essential

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place!
A generous pension package!
Private healthcare
Discounted mobile and broadband
Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we're happy to discuss flexible working

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.