Senior Consultant - Strategy & Advisory; Public Policy

Position: Senior Consultant - Strategy & Advisory (Public Policy)
Job-:
Research

Location:

London, England, United Kingdom;
Manchester, England, United Kingdom;
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Workplace:
Hybrid Posted:
Ipsos Worker Classification:
Employee - Permanent Regular Job Type: Full-Time Job:
Research Associate Manager - RD09

Make your mark at Ipsos!

Senior Consultant – Strategy & Advisory (Public Policy)
Are you an expert with a track record in analysing, developing and advising on UK public policy? Do you have sound policy judgement and creative thinking, with the ability to develop credible options that reflect how decisions are made, and change happens?

If so we have a unique and rewarding career opportunity for a Senior consultant to help shape UK public policy.  We welcome applications from policy professionals, analysts, and people with a strategy background, whether you currently work in government, the wider public sector, or consultancy.

We invite applications from a wide range of policy backgrounds, including cross-cutting roles. We are particularly interested in experience spanning business, economic and technology policy, including AI, skills and labour markets; public services such as justice, home affairs, health and education; or culture, media, and digital policies.

What is in it for you?

The Strategy & Advisory team are policy experts who use Ipsos’s extensive evidence base and leading research and analysis methods to develop policy options and shape strategies with clients.

Whilst you will lead substantial parts of projects, the role would suit candidates who would benefit from working closely with an Associate Director or Director. You will also have access to expert input and be able to collaborate with colleagues across Ipsos and a range of partners, including researchers, economists, evaluators, behavioural scientists and subject-matter specialists – it is a role that offers potential for future growth by learning and developing from experts around you.

As a Senior Consultant you will have the opportunity to:

Conduct evidence-led strategy and policy development with government and the wider public sector. You will help clients understand complex policy problems, anticipate future developments, make strategic choices and decide what to do next.

Address complex policy problems – our clients come to us with difficult questions that do not have obvious answers. You might bring together research, data and stakeholder perspectives to explain a policy problem; explore how an issue may develop in future; create a theory of change or analytical model; or help a client develop and assess options for policy, strategy or delivery.

The role

The main responsibilities of the role are:

Structuring complex policy and strategy questions and deciding what analysis is needed;reviewing and synthesising evidence from different sources;planning and undertaking stakeholder engagement and qualitative research;developing theories of change, analytical frameworks, future scenarios, and policy or operational options;turning complex analysis into clear advice for senior clients;leading work streams and building trusted client relationships;collaborating with and managing input from experts across Ipsos and our partner organisations;contributing

to proposals and helping the team identify and win new work.

Essential

Experience:

You should enjoy tackling unfamiliar issues, bringing structure to ambiguity, and applying evidence to practical policy and strategy problems. You will need to understand the client’s underlying problem and the wider context in which they operate, including the institutions, incentives, and political and financial constraints that shape what is possible. You should be able to draw on specialist analysis from others and combine it with…