Senior Strategist / Strategy Director

Are you a Senior Strategist / Strategy Director looking for an exciting new opportunity?

If so, a leading digital agency who specializes in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development across a number of well know charities and NGO's are looking for an Senior Strategist who will champion audience insights within the agency and help shape strategies and campaigns informed by strong audience understanding. We're looking for someone who has a flair for research and insights and thrives on variety, diversity and challenge.

A creative thinker who is excited to work at a place where data-driven research is applied to inform the development of campaigns and programmes focused on social impact, performance marketing, fundraising and other initiatives intended at driving positive change for the world.

With some great company benefits and the chance to work for a modern, forward-thinking agency, this is an amazing opportunity for a Senior Strategist to assist charitable causes, companies and campaigns and inspire people to take action and drive real change

Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with business development, account, and creatives teams to determine the right research methodology and strategic approach to a given client challenge

• Conducing primary research (interviews, surveys, focus groups, creative testing) as well as secondary (desk research, landscape and trend analysis, using audience intelligence tools, social listening) or supporting other strategists on the team with these

• Translating the findings into insights that are both inspiring and actionable

• Writing creative briefs, insights presentations and sharing the findings with clients and teams

• Using the insights to create strategies for their campaigns, including a core strategic proposition, audience definition, clearly articulated objectives and KPIs

• Identifying trends and opportunities to innovate their research methodologies to meet emerging needs, try new approaches or tools to push their insights practice forward

• Facilitating and participating in brainstorming sessions, client presentations, workshops and overall project delivery

• Juggling multiple projects: supporting diverse range of teams and client briefs, prioritising effectively (with the help of your manager) and managing deadlines

• Working collaboratively with other internal or external teams: be it other strategists, account directors, communications experts or analysts to make sure together they produce strategies, campaigns and creative ideas informed by data and research

• Managing and training other Strategy team members on research methodologies as they grow

Your experience will include

• Have experienced in research and are passionate about uncovering surprising and inspiring insights that can spark creative ideas or make their strategic recommendations stronger and grounded in real audience understanding

• A curious and proactive mind. You like to use substantiated data to both identify and solve problems, rather than trust your gut alone

• Adaptable and always looking for diverse challenges to apply your insights and strategic skills

• Analytical mind that enjoys designing the right research methodology, be it via audience surveys, focus groups, social listening or desk research, while also switching seamlessly to writing an insightful creative brief or facilitating ideations and workshops with client or colleagues

• Have a mix of qualitative and quantitative research background, using both primary and secondary methods, happy to roll your sleeves and spend time conducting interviews, focus groups or using audience intelligence tools, as well as championing the findings and building strategic recommendations around them

• Be collaborative and proactive, with an eye for spotting new opportunities for how research and strategy can make projects stronger

• Open to opportunities to learn identify new methodologies and contribute to a growing, innovative research practice and a team of seasoned strategists always looking to improve and push the boundaries

• A knowledge of psychology, anthropology, or deep human understanding of behaviours, needs, culture, attitudes, trends or innovation is a plus

With some great company benefits and the chance to work for a modern, forward-thinking agency, this is an amazing opportunity for a Senior Strategist to assist charitable causes, companies and campaigns and inspire people to take action and drive real change.

If you are interested in applying, please submit your CV and supporting statement, highlighting why you think your skills and experience is suitable for the role.

Closing date for applications is 17th of July and shortlisting will take place the following week.

We look forward to your application

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.