Are you curious about the world around you? Are you excited by collaborative, supportive and creative research?
Join the HVM team as a researcher
What we’re looking for
Our ideal Researcher is flexible, confident, with an ability to prioritise complex and competing deliverables. You’ll want to have an excellent rapport with our close-knit team and with our clients, stakeholders and research participants. You will be happy to pick up the phone to recruit people to our workshops or arrange and conduct stakeholder interviews; you may have some experience as a facilitator, but if not, demonstrate a curiosity about what people have to say and a willingness to learn. You are likely to have conducted some early career research work outside of a higher education context and want to develop your skills in the full research cycle from early design, through fieldwork, coding and analysis to final report.
You are:
Super organised with excellent attention to detail
Hardworking, enthusiastic and flexible
Calm and able to problem solve efficiently including quick thinking under pressure
Proactive and enthusiastic
Focused on the needs of participants and others involved in the delivery of our research programmes
Empathetic and creative
Skilled at Microsoft Office (essential)
Have experience of working with analytic tools such as NVivo or Quirkos (desirable)
HVM recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
What we’re offering
We’re a small, friendly and collaborative team who are committed to our work and support each other to do great things. As a successful small business, we feel this is a brilliant opportunity for you to learn and develop, working with us on every stage of a wide variety of projects, and contributing to new opportunities and approaches for HVM.
This is a full time role working at our offices in Whitechapel and flexibly from home. We do require office working as a minimum two days a week including a Tuesday. You can arrange your hours to suit you with a working day being 8 hours including a paid lunch break. Our workshops are mostly delivered on weekday evenings and weekends, with time off in lieu. We offer a 5% contribution to the pension scheme.
Please note, we are not able to sponsor applicants who do not have the right to work in the UK.
Next steps
If you have any questions about the role, please contact admin@hopkinsvanmil.co.uk.
To apply, please complete this form Job application for HVM Researcher – Fill out form explaining why you are the best fit for this role and upload a brief CV (no more than 2 pages) describing your skills and previous experience.
The deadline for applications is Monday 9th February at 10am.
Interviews will be held on 24th February 2026 at our London office.
We’re interested in someone joining us as soon as possible, so please get in touch.