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PT Graduate Researcher - Remote Role, Brighton

Client: Love Recruitment

Location: Brighton, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 6f1bb7c84705

Job Views: 7

Posted: 12.08.2025

Expiry Date: 26.09.2025

Job Description:

The UK's leading specialist fitness and leisure recruitment agency.

Service and Delivery.

Contact us at 07746 791415 or email any of the team via People.

Position: PT Graduate Researcher

Salary circa £25k (36 hours a week) – pro rata to agreed hours

Company and Job Overview

Max Associates is a small, dynamic consultancy working in the local authority sports, physical activity, and cultural sector. Our clients are mainly local authorities and not-for-profits managing sports and leisure centres. We collaborate with organizations like Sport England, national governing bodies, and local community groups.

We seek a recent graduate to focus on research aspects of our projects.

Key Projects Include:

• Sports, physical activity, and wellbeing strategies
• Feasibilities and appraisals for new and refurbished facilities
• Management options appraisals
• Support for councils in procuring operators for sports and leisure centres
• Service, business, and pricing reviews

The Role:

Assist our consultants and directors with primary desk-based research. This is a home-based position.

The research will include:

• Reviewing and interpreting Council strategy documents
• Demographic and health profile analysis of Council areas
• Using Sport England tools to assess activity trends
• Conducting competition analysis via search engines
• Undertaking facility audits
• Report writing and presentation development
• Project-specific research as needed

Hours:

Negotiable between 2-3 days a week

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Project work, data analysis, and report writing
• Survey management and primary engagement
• Teamwork and meeting deadlines

Knowledge:

• Understanding of government and public policy issues
• Knowledge of public leisure and cultural sectors
• Research and engagement methods

Qualifications:

Degree level education

Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Attention to detail and initiative
• Self-managed home working
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Organizational and project management abilities
• Ability to deliver complete projects
• Effective information presentation
• Respectfulness, integrity, and constructive response
• Solution-focused mindset
• Personal responsibility for outcomes
• Willingness to learn and develop
• Marketing and project management experience
• Proficiency in Excel, Canva, Microsoft Teams
• Knowledge of local authority sports and physical activity sector