Eaves’ mission is to expose and address violence against women and girls in the UK.

Eaves is a feminist organisation with specialisms in the areas of trafficking, prostitution exiting, and sexual violence. Eaves also offers housing and employment services. Within each area of work Eaves provides frontline support and advocacy as well as undertaking lobbying and campaigning. At Eaves, we are determined to give a voice to the most excluded women in society and provide direct, innovative services to support and empower women to help themselves.

Eaves recognises the value of high quality research to inform and shape its work. Research at Eaves has a key role to play in strengthening the evidence base for our campaigning, influencing and practice-based activities on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). This is often a reciprocal relationship in that our practice and policy work can also inform the research that we do and the key areas of concern we chose to explore/investigate.

Are you driven to join us in the following role:

(Female) Research and Development Manager

Salary: SP39-43 £36,096 - £39,621 pa pro rata hours (part-time 21 hours per week)

Initial Contract to 31st March 2015

London

You will:

  • Be responsible for leading, coordinating and managing all of Eaves’ major external facing research projects
  • Identify/formulate key research questions and areas of investigation, and design and deliver, in collaboration with relevant colleagues, Eaves’ research projects
  • Strengthen Eaves’ research capacity and impact on both policy development and practice
  • Manage a high quality Research Team
  • Work with the Campaign Manager to identify new/niche work areas that contribute to the delivery of Eaves’ mission, develop a project specification for this work and incubate the work within the Lilith team, as relevant
  • Work with the Campaigns Manager to provide support and advice to Senior Management and the Board regarding the overall strategic direction and priorities of Eaves, as required.

Do you have:

  • Excellent proven research and analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of research design and ethics
  • Proven experience of managing large research projects and related processes
  • Knowledge of the VAWG agenda
  • Experience of developing policy positions and influencing government policy
  • Sound knowledge of research methods (both quantitative and qualitative), tools and software
  • Some staff management experience
  • The ability to identify gaps/new development opportunities that contribute to tackling VAWG, and develop new project specifications accordingly.

If so and you feel you meet the full criteria detailed in the person specification, we’d like to hear from you.

You can find out more about Eaves and its projects, and also apply on line or download the recruitment pack by visiting our website You can also obtain a recruitment pack by emailing or calling 0207 840 7124 (please state clearly the post you are applying for).

Closing date: Thursday 3rd July 2014

Interview date: Monday 14th July 2014

Successful applicants will be required to have a satisfactory disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Due to the sensitive nature of this role we will be considering female applicants only for this post in accordance with the provisions of the Occupational Requirement (Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 Part 1).

Eaves offers a generous 30 day’s annual leave (pro rata) and a 7% non contributory pension scheme.

Eaves is committed to equality of opportunity and encourages applications from all sections of society.

Eaves Housing for Women Ltd Company no. 1322750 Charity No: 275048