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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a data manager in an exciting client who are responsible for conducting research. These areas vary from: health and lifestyles; travel and the environment; employment, skills and education; longitudinal studies; income and welfare; social inclusion; children, schools and families; and crime and justice.

Main Role and Responsibilities include:
- Construct and maintain SPSS data files.
- Check and edit data, ensuring data integrity and continuity.
- Write derived variables in SPSS, in conjunction with the research team.
- Provision of data sets to internal and external users (including Data Archive), and keeping archived data sets up-to-date (e.g. with flagged data).
- Carry out, and validate, data linkages (e.g. with census data, administrative data, different datasets over time or from different surveys).
- Carry out cross-tabulation and other statistical analyses.
- Contribute to substantive and technical reports.
- Ensure all procedures and questionnaires are fully documented.
- Be the main contact for data queries and enquiries for NatCen researchers, other NatCen staff, clients, collaborators and external data users.
- Be aware of data protection and confidentiality issues.
- Miscellaneous tasks (e.g. sorting out samples or feed forward data for follow-up studies).
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Essential requirements include:
- 1st or higher degree
- Understanding and commitment to social research
- Strong data management, numeric, IT, writing, organisational and administration skills
- Experience of statistical software (SPSS or STATA) or programming.

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To further your accounting career in this leading organisation please forward your CV in strictest confidence to Kerry Latter at public_sector@robertwalters.com

Or call Kerry for a confidential discussion about this opportunity on: +44 (0)207 509 8952

Where any specific qualification is mentioned, all equivalent overseas qualifications are acceptable