Junior Associate Internship (Research Practice) London 2022

We are looking for brilliant, multi-skilled, enthusiastic Junior Associates to join us on a 6 month internship. This is an opportunity to gain first-hand experience understanding of all aspects of the reputation and strategy research side of our business. You will be integral in supporting the smooth running of the business and the day-to-day management of research projects for clients. Although this internship is primarily focused on reputation and strategy research, there may be opportunities for you to get involved in other parts of the business too. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under- represented in our industry.

Who we’re looking for

Our Junior Associates will be…

• Making telephone calls to potential research participants and booking interviews;
• Mapping clients’ stakeholders;
• Conducting stakeholder research interviews and attending focus groups as a note taker;
• Conducting background and desk research on clients to support proposals and marketing activities;
• Checking data and proof reading reports;
• Testing online and telephone surveys;
• Charting research findings;
• Assisting in the design of research studies;
• Assisting in the analysis and reporting of projects;
• Contributing to team discussions;
• Undertaking general office administration, including processing charity donations;
• Assisting in organising and analysing large datasets;
• Ensuring data protection policies are followed, including completion of all relevant documentation;

It is essential our Junior Associate

• Has an enquiring mind and a broad set of interests, including business and current affairs
• Has an interest in learning how to use qualitative and quantitative research techniques to solve business problems
• Has an excellent, confident telephone manner, able to run phone interviews with our clients’ stakeholders and liaising with politicians’ offices over the phone
• Is a self-starter, with great organisation, time-management and attention to detail
• Has excellent writing and numerical skills
• Is happy taking initiative, learning new skills and putting forward their point of view
• Works well in a team, has a can-do attitude and is ready to muck in
• Loves solving interesting problems but can bring equal energy and enthusiasm to project management and administration tasks
• Is confident using Microsoft Office
• Is able to cope with competing demands and to prioritise tasks

What to expect

To be treated as part of the team, not a bystander. That means plenty of hard work but you’ll learn quickly too…

• Variety. You’ll work across a broad range of project teams, sectors and types of client challenge.
• Insight. You’ll gain uncommon visibility over how to solve business challenges holistically – from data analysis and insight through to conceptual and creative development.
• Guidance. You’ll have a dedicated line-manager and weekly progress checks, so ask anything.
• Responsibility. You’ll have colleagues relying on you and will be asked to take a lead on project administration.
• Growth. You’ll learn a mix of techniques and approaches from highly knowledgeable experts.

About Yonder

Yonder Consulting includes Yonder and Yonder Data Solutions. Yonder Data Solutions provide field and tab services to Yonder and other market research agencies. Yonder is a consultancy that blends insight, strategy and imagination to unlock opportunity and deliver impact.

At Yonder, our purpose is in our name. We exist to help our clients go further by helping them explore their potential and set the direction for their future. Sometimes this means we discover opportunities that even our clients haven’t imagined yet. Yonder is about possibility and looking ahead to the future. It’s also about being open minded and expansive in our thinking. Yonder is where the combination of evidence and imagination takes us.

We help our clients go further with focus through customer-driven business success. We partner with our clients to create and maintain the positive momentum needed for long-term success. Grounded in deep insight, and informed by the wider social and commercial context, we define the most relevant opportunities and the strategies to act on them. We work alongside our clients as partners, helping them to adjust and respond to change as it happens, and keeping them moving towards their goals.

Our approach is three-fold:

• To understand reality: we use traditional and innovative techniques to produce and analyse quality data, getting us close to our clients market, reputation, customers, brand and people.
• To define opportunity: we combine strategic and imaginative thinking to explore opportunities and define the best strategist to realise them.
• To create impact: we execute the strategy and create tangible, internal and external experiences and activations to deliver impact.

Our expertise broadens across:

• Reputation;
• Customer understanding;
• Culture;
• Brand research;
• Brand and business strategy;
• Innovation;
• Design; and
• Advertising

What Yonder can offer you

Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer our Junior Associates the London Living Wage, 12.5 days holiday pro rata (plus your birthday off if it falls during the internship period!), life assurance (at four times your salary), flexible hours (with 4pm finishes on Fridays) and access to our company employee assistance programme.