What you’ll do: 

• Coordinate community-led research activity across the Intersections for Health Equity programme, ensuring research processes are well organised, ethical, accessible and grounded in lived experience

• Work with Programme Managers and Programme Coordinators to plan and deliver focus groups, interviews, workshops, systems-mapping activity and other knowledge-generation processes

• Support the development of research materials, including topic guides, participant information, consent processes, feedback forms and other tools needed for community-led research activity

• Support recruitment, participation, facilitation and follow-up for community research and engagement activities, ensuring that community members are supported to participate safely and meaningfully

• Work alongside Programme Coordinators to ensure research activity reflects the strengths, needs, experiences and diversity of racialised queer and trans communities

• Document and organise community insight, feedback, emerging themes and learning in ways that support programme development, pilot activity and systems-change work

• Support the analysis and synthesis of research findings, working with colleagues to identify structural barriers, community priorities and opportunities for change

• Contribute to outcome learning, community-facing outputs, reports, briefings, presentations and other materials that communicate what the programme is learning and changing

• Support the development and refinement of pilot interventions by ensuring they are informed by community-generated evidence and lived experience

• Support lived-experience involvement structures, ensuring community voices meaningfully influence research design, analysis, programme learning and programme direction

• Maintain clear research records, including participation information, consent documentation, data storage, activity logs and monitoring information

• Support practical programme activity where needed, including organising sessions, booking spaces, liaising with participants, preparing materials, tracking attendance and supporting smooth delivery

• Work with NHS providers, local authorities, community organisations and other stakeholders where needed, supporting the translation of community knowledge into institutional learning and change

• Champion equity, intersectionality, lived experience and community leadership across all research and learning activity

• Ensure research and programme activity is delivered within organisational policies, safeguarding standards, data protection requirements and ethical practice

• Contribute to wider team meetings, reflective practice, programme planning and organisational learning

The skills and experience you’ll need: 

• Lived experience of and deep connection to one or more of the programme’s key communities (Black, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and South Asian queer and transgender communities) with strong understanding of the strengths, needs, experiences and diversity within those communities

• Understanding of how health inequalities are shaped by structural racism, migration status, homophobia, transphobia, stigma, exclusion and wider social determinants of health

• Excellent experience of coordinating research, consultation, evaluation, listening exercises, community engagement or other knowledge-generation activity

• Understanding and experience of community-led, peer-led or lived-experience-led research approaches, particularly with communities experiencing health inequalities

• Ability to support people to participate in research and learning activity in ways that are accessible, safe, inclusive and meaningful

• Experience of organising research or engagement activity effectively, including managing logistics, timelines, communication, records, follow-up actions and competing priorities

• Ability to document, organise and share community insight, feedback and emerging themes in ways that support learning, programme development and systems-change activity

• Understanding of qualitative research methods, such as interviews, focus groups, listening spaces, workshops, thematic analysis or participatory research approaches

• Ability to turn research findings and community insight into clear outputs, including summaries, reports, briefings, presentations or community-facing materials

• Understanding of equity, intersectionality and power, including how to work in ways that avoid extractive research and support genuine community influence

• Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively with a broad range of people, including community members, colleagues, partners and external stakeholders

• Understanding of consent, confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and ethical practice in community-based research

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a programme team, taking direction where needed while also showing initiative and ownership

• Commitment to The Love Tank’s values, including community leadership, transparency, accountability, intersectionality and evidence-informed action

The annual salary for this 1.0 FTE post is £38,800. We pay 3% employer pension contributions, provide monthly staff support grants towards well-being (e.g. therapy), and 33 days of paid leave per year including statutory bank holidays. 

To apply for this post, send a CV (please do NOT include a photograph on your CV) along with a two-page cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills and experience required for this post.

In addition, please outline in no more than 200 words your lived experience of the communities reached by this post. 

Please email the above to hello@thelovetank.info by midday of the closing date - 17 August 2026. Applications received after this time will not be accepted.

If you require more information about this role please email hello@thelovetank.info.

Please do NOT contact other staff members for informal discussions about this post.

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