Address- Work with world class, category leading clients as a behavioural science expert
- Create highly actionable solutions for the most important problems
- Enjoy flexible work arrangements - combine time in our Melbourne office w/ WFH
Behavioural Science is one of the fastest growing areas of consultancy globally for companies, not-for-profits and government agencies.
This role offers a unique opportunity to bring your quantitative and qualitative skillsets to a multi-disciplinary team. Your new team is unified by a core focus of understanding behaviour and applying behavioural science principles and frameworks to create behavioural change.
What we’re looking for
We are looking for an experienced research dualist with 6+ years experience to be a crucial part of managing a fun, hardworking and insightful team. Using our distinctive Behavioural Science led approach, you will play a project leadership role in the design, management, analysis, and presentation of highly actionable solutions for the most important problems. Working across a diverse client portfolio, we’re looking for an intelligent, thoughtful, and action-orientated individual to help our clients better understand behaviour and ultimately lead behavioural change in commercial, not-for-profit and government categories.
Your new company
The Behavioural Architects is a global insights, research, and strategic consultancy. We specialise in understanding and influencing behaviour, and our methodologies are based on cutting edge Behavioural Science. Our purpose: To combine Behavioural Science excellence with creative thinking to develop highly actionable strategies and solutions for the most important problems. We look to always create positive impact with our work.
We work with clients from a diverse range of government agencies and industries including the Department of Education and Training, Vic Roads, WorkSafe Victoria, ANZ, Bunnings, Sanofi, Coles, UBER and Telstra. We help them with design, communication, innovation, and behavioural understanding. Our clients come to us because we are able to help them find solutions to difficult and challenging problems. These might include – how to encourage people to behave more safely around trains, how to encourage people to plant more trees, how to improve people’s financial behaviour, how to reduce bullying in a workforce, or guiding the development of a new chocolate bar! The work is varied and always interesting because all our clients share the common interest in solving problems and achieving their organisational goals through better understanding human behaviour. You will learn about Behavioural Science and equally importantly, how to apply it to solve real-world problems in ways that our clients can easily implement.
For more information, visit: https://www.thebearchitects.com/
Your new role
As our newest Behavioural Strategy Director, you will be closely involved in leading the development and evaluation of Behavioural Change interventions and strategies for our clients.
In pursuit of the role as described above, you are able to:
- Demonstrate to colleagues and clients an understanding of Behavioural Science principles and frameworks to activate behavioural change
- Demonstrate to colleagues and clients how your experience in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies has enabled you to gain a better understanding of behaviour
- Demonstrate to colleagues and clients competent experience in leading effective, behavioural research projects from client brief, proposal writing and the design of behavioural research
- Analyse findings and develop the strategic narrative for the project.
- Write presentations that activate behavioural change.
- Review the work of others, providing mentoring, coaching, and development to team members
- Manage a team of researchers
- Take ownership of co-ordinating the logistics of research in line with a project’s specifications.
- Develop recruitment screeners, discussion guides and client questionnaires for medium to complex projects.
- Have experience in writing tenders and financial proposals for a range of projects
- Seek to further learn and develop professionally, participating in all training modules provided by TBA
- A background in Psychology / Behavioural Science / Behavioural Economics/Business/Marketing.
- Prior experience in leading projects in quantitative and qualitative research to activate behavioural change (6+ years).
- Experienced researcher with hands on strategy development experience
- Hands on quantitative experience, including proficient use of Q, interpreting data, and charting, with advanced analysis desired but not necessary
- Qualtrics or other programming experience desired, but not necessary
- You are the kind of person who sees constant learning and development as a career necessity and are motivated to achieve team and business objectives
- Excellent project management, written and verbal communication skills are essential in providing a high level of customer service
- Enjoy a workplace that is committed to creating cultural harmony and performance excellence in all aspects of our work
- A nurturing environment where help is happily offered, asked for and received, priorities are clearly communicated, and workloads are balanced across the organisation
- Opportunities to build relationships and achieve results ethically and with integrity with dynamic companies in technology, healthcare, finance, and consumer goods, as well the important work of diverse government departments
- Outstanding professional pathway as we are committed to learning, developing and sharing our knowledge in the application of Behavioural Science
- We focus on creating a happier, healthier and harmonious workplace in which our people can thrive with a wide range of programmes including flexible working arrangements, 5 bonus ‘personal days’ in addition to annual leave, an annual social and cultural events calendar and an Employee Assistance programme to support mental wellbeing
- Flexible work arrangements – you will love our beautiful Melbourne office and we also support hybrid working from home arrangements
- Good remuneration options
Please note: Only successful candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the recruitment process. Thank you for your understanding.
