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FRY Creative - Research and Evaluation Director
Freelance Contract|2 days p/w for 6 months|Mar-Aug 2025|Hybrid working
£125 p/d fee excl. agreed expenses|£6,000 total fee|Flexible hours
Who are FRY?
Fry are Fabio, Richard and Yasmin. We’re three friends who, in 2023, pooled decades of experience in research, evaluation, arts, strategy and consultancy, and started a business together. Since then, we’ve worked with a number of clients in the arts, culture, and heritage industries, as well as beyond.
Our clients are across the UK, and occasionally further afield. We work remotely from Birmingham and London, often visiting our clients on site, both to meet with them as well as to deliver primary data collection.
Who are we looking for?
We’re looking for someone to help us in our client-facing work. For this role, we don’t necessarily need anyone with experience in research or evaluation, or of working in arts, culture or heritage. However, you will need to demonstrate a willingness to learn about these areas.
We want someone who is interested in learning about people, their stories and what’s important to them. Research and evaluation is about understanding how people live, how life affects them, and how art and culture plays a role in this.
For this role you will need to be happy speaking with people you’ve not met before and engaging with individuals from many different walks of life. You will need to be a hard-working, self-starter who is able to work independently, flexibly and to use your initiative. You will need to be comfortable with being given responsibility and expected to take ownership over your workload. Strong written and verbal language and communication skills will be beneficial. You will need to have access to your own computer and a stable internet connection.
In return you will join a supportive, open and fun team, who values honesty, mutual-respect and a pragmatic approach to working life. The contract is provisionally for 6 months with the potential to become a more ongoing arrangement thereafter, should things work out. We support fully flexible working focused on getting the job done.
What will the role be responsible for?
As outlined above, if you don’t have experience in the below, you will be trained and supported to undertake these tasks:
1. ADMIN/PROJECT MANAGEMENT: setting up and attending meetings with clients, taking notes and actions, creating project timelines, proof reading;
2. PLANNING: assisting in the creation of evaluation frameworks, reading, digesting and communicating documentation from clients;
3. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT: basic data analysis, drafting research surveys, cleaning data, primary survey data collection on site;
4. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT: assisting in focus group and 1-2-1 interview delivery, conducting focus group and 1-2-1 interview delivery, coding qualitative data, assisting in the creation of topic guides;
5. PRESENTING DATA: assisting in the writing and editing of evaluation reports and research outputs, assisting in the presenting of data back to clients.
What should I do if I am interested?
Please send us an email to hello@frycreative.uk by Sunday 23 February at 11:59pm including:
1. Some information about who you are, why you're interested in the role and highlighting how your experience aligns with what we’re looking for (1 side A4)
2. A CV outlining your experiences of work and education (max 2 sides A4)
3. The names of two references we can contact about your work.
We’ll be assessing applications on a rolling basis as they arrive, and will be aiming to have initial short chats with our longlist of applicants by 27 February. The purpose of these initial conversations will be to meet you and chat about the work you’ve done to date. We are a small team, and regret that we are unable to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates, other than those we shortlist.
We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We seek amazing people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We care for each other and strive to create an inclusive work environment where we are all comfortable in coming to work every day. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to help you apply – just email us at hello@frycreative.uk
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