Research Officer in Evidence

Duties will include (but are not limited to):

Completing evidence products using a systematic approach

• Turning policy questions into research questions


• Collaborating with an information specialist to implement a rigorous and documented search


• Mapping the information and literature available in collaboration with an information specialist


• Assessing the suitability of the literature to answer research questions


• Assessing the quality of the literature


• Extracting findings systematically


• Analysing and synthesising published data


• Identifying what is known about a topic, and subsequently, gaps in knowledge


• Preparing presentations and writing briefing papers and reviews in specific areas.

• Assisting with the preparation of a business case for the executive team


• Assisting with the completion of a needs assessment for evidence reviews with policy makers or planners and agreeing the review questions


• Preparing evidence review with the Head of Unit specification for the executive team and procurement review team


• Working with the Head of Unit and procurement manager to advertise the review, answer applicants’ questions and evaluate tenders


• Working with the Head of Unit, procurement manager, and legal officer to prepare contracts and finalise the awardees work plan and timeline


• Representing the HRB and working with the academic team and policy maker to agree changes to questions, approach to literature search, and final report


• Managing the academic team to agree search methods, agree extraction sheet, agree quality assessment, and read draft reports


• Overseeing and negotiating with the academic team to ensure policy makers or practitioners comments are attended to


• Securing peer reviewers and ensuring their comments are attended to


• Managing the academic team to ensure the schedule of deliverables in the contract is complied with and payments for completed work are sanctioned.

• The stakeholder training and mentoring will include information or assistance on completing a literature search, reading a research paper (including the tables and figures), critically appraising a paper, analysing basic statistical data, and analysing basic text\-based data.

• Measure the quality of research proposals and outputs


• Commission research


• Disseminate research (knowledge brokering)


• Protocols for managing large databases, mapping research, and conducting reviews using systematic methods.

• Membership of DOH and HSE working groups (policy makers, service planners, service providers, service users and researchers)


• Writing briefs


• Presenting oral reviews, and


• Other novel methods.

Requirements

Essential knowledge and experience

Formal requirements include

• A minimum of a NFQ Level 9 qualification (Masters’ degree) with a heavy emphasis on research


• Four to five years’ relevant research experience, which includes the completion and publication of evidence or quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods systematic reviews.

• A PhD and peer review publication record would be an advantage


• Knowledge and experience of meta\-analysis, meta\-ethnography, other qualitative review and/or mixed methods is desirable


• Knowledge and experience using referencing and review management packages is advantageous.

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