Description

Who We Are

GC Insight is the UK's largest profit-for-purpose social enterprise providing
economic advice and analysis. We offer comprehensive services in advisory,
research, and evaluation to help public and private sector clients enhance their
performance and maximise the impact of their investments. 

With a team of approximately 50 working across offices in Birmingham, London,
Manchester, and Glasgow, we provide opportunities for growth and progression. 
As part of The Growth Company, we proudly reinvest our profits to create greater
social impact in the communities we serve.

You can find out more about our service and subject offer on our website.

The Opportunity 

Senior Consultants provide the backbone of our business. The role involves: 

• Planning, prioritising and being accountable for project work plans, organising and
  controlling multiple responsibilities and resources to achieve project objectives. 
• Working with a team of Associate Directors and Directors to develop and deliver
  robust research and analysis to clients.
• Collaborating with and supporting more junior consultants to maintain our quality standards and timeliness of delivery.
• Undertaking primary, secondary and mixed methods research, making use of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews, focus groups, workshops and desk-based research.
• Generating analysis and intelligent insights to help inform clients’ decision-making.
• Communicating ideas, options and recommendations clearly and concisely using high quality outputs (reports, presentations etc) that impress our clients and help them make better informed decisions.
• Cultivating warm and long-term client relationships to help us promote our offer.
• Contributing to work winning and business development of our growing offer to clients.
• Helping develop new tools and ways of working that make the most of new technologies and techniques which help us better respond to evolving client needs.

We are looking for people who are curious and analytical with attention to detail and
quality and who thrive working in a fast-paced environment. 

Senior Consultants typically have approximately 4-8 years’ experience in economic
development consulting, public policy research or in a public sector role with a focus
on data, analysis and strategy.  

Requirements

Person Specification

We are particularly interested in candidates who can support the continued growth of
our place / land and property offer including: 

• Producing socio-economic baselines to understand the strengths, opportunities
  and challenges presented by places. 
• Preparing economic strategies that support places to fulfil their potential. 
• Developing socio-economic ES and health chapters, Health Impact Assessments,
  Equality Impact Assessments, Employment and Skills Plans and Social and
  Community Infrastructure Assessments to support developments to progress
  through the planning system. 
• Evaluating the effectiveness of projects and programmes with a place-based focus. 
• Assessing the impacts to be unlocked by developments and making the case for
  investment in regeneration initiatives. 

Candidates aligned with our wider portfolio of work will also be considered. 

Our Offer To you

Our offer to you includes: 

• A varied workload that maintains interest and provides opportunities for
  progression
• A supportive work environment, including mentoring, personal development plans
  and a ‘hands-on’ Director team
• A competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme
• Hybrid working arrangements that offer the best of both worlds 
• 25 days holiday, increasing with service 
• A 6% employer pension contribution 
• Staff volunteering days and benefits including an annual leave purchase and salary
  sacrifice electric vehicle schemes 
• Offices in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow