Description

Business and related research professionals carry out a variety of research activities for the broadcast and print media, for the police and armed forces intelligence services, for national security agencies and in other non-scientific areas.

Tasks

• Discusses possible changes that need to be made in terms of design, price, packaging, marketing and promotion etc. in light of market research with appropriate departments.
• Manages and directs research, collates and interprets findings and presents results to clients.
• Liaises with client to understand their market research needs, establishes an appropriate quantitative and qualitative market research methodology and prepares proposals outlining programmes of work and details of costs.
• Deals with copyright issues and negotiates fees.
• Liaises with client on the appropriate image/s to be used.
• Researches images for clients in a wide range of media using specialist picture libraries and archives, museums, galleries etc., or commissions new images.
• Presents findings in the required format, via written reports or presentations.
• Provides support to criminal intelligence or to military or other security operations by gathering and verifying intelligence data and sources.
• Provides administrative support for programme development such as booking facilities.
• Briefs presenters, scriptwriters or journalists as required via verbal or written reports.
• Research sources for accurate factual material, finds suitable contributors to programmes or print features and deals with any copyright issues.
• Liaises with production team to generate and develop ideas for film, television and radio programmes.

Entry Requirements

Honours, Bachelor's degree

Skills

• Monitoring
• Reading Comprehension
• Critical Thinking
• Active Learning
• Active Listening
• Writing
• Speaking
• Learning Strategies
• Science
• Mathematics

Related Courses

• A-Level Programme - Business
• Access to HE Diploma (Business) - Level 3
• Business - Level 1 (Award)
• Business Improvement Techniques - Level 2 Level 3 (NVQ Diploma)
• Certificate in Digital Marketing - Level 2
• Creating a Business Start-Up - Level 2
• IT Skills for Business - Bespoke
• Principles of Team Leading - Level 2