Research Officer
Employer: Surviving Economic Abuse
Location: Home-based with occasional UK travel
Working hours: Part time (28 hrs per week)
Salary: £35,000 (£28,000 Salary, 0.8 Full Time Equivalent) per annum
Closing date: 11.59pm Wednesday 17th June 2026
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Would you like to join a small but mighty charity, working as part of an inspirational team delivering real change for women and girls?
Reporting to: Senior Research Officer
Location: Home-based with occasional UK travel
Salary: £35,000 (£28,000 Salary, 0.8 Full Time Equivalent) per annum
Contract: Part time (28 hrs per week).This post is only open to women applicants, as being a woman is considered a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
About the role
At SEA, all our work is grounded in evidence and shaped by the lived experiences of victim-survivors. As Research Officer, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, survivor-centred research on economic abuse as part of a major new three-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Working closely with the Senior Research Officer, colleagues across SEA, academic partners and external stakeholders, you will support research exploring coerced debt as a form of economic abuse and the responses to it across systems and services. The role will involve qualitative and quantitative research activities, including data collection, analysis, stakeholder engagement, and producing accessible and impactful research outputs.
Your work will help strengthen understanding of economic abuse and inform policy, practice and systems change on coerced debt that improves responses for victim-survivors.
About you
You are a skilled researcher who is passionate about conducting high-quality research which can create real-world impact for victim-survivors of economic abuse.
You will have the ability to sensitively work with victim-survivors to learn about their lived experiences of economic abuse , including coerced debt, as well as the ability to conduct research with professional stakeholders.
Using your research skills, you will be able to analyse data, and will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of economic abuse in the context of intimate partner abuse, including of how perpetrators can misuse systems to enact abuse. You will be able to demonstrate an ability to deliver research projects in a timely manner and to communicate findings clearly to a range of stakeholders.
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