User Researcher - Sharepoint Information - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

User Researcher - Sharepoint Information - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Overview

We are seeking a UR/Researcher to lead our government clients organisation, maintenance, and scaling of a SharePoint-based research repository. This role sits within our user research team and is essential for improving how research knowledge across UR and other evidence sources is stored, shared, and accessed across multiple hubs.

You will take our existing SharePoint structure, develop it, and build a consistent, scalable model that supports the entire research community.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, refine, and maintain a user-friendly SharePoint research repository, aligning it with team needs and best practice.
• Create and manage metadata standards, taxonomies, tagging structures, and naming conventions.
• Work closely with researchers to onboard them to the repository, ensuring consistent usage and high-quality content organisation.
• Build and maintain processes for upload, version control, archiving, and categorisation.
• Support the rollout of the repository model across additional hubs, providing training and documentation as needed.
• Ensure that research artefacts (reports, transcripts, decks, raw data) are findable, searchable, and appropriately stored.
• Monitor information-management hygiene and proactively identify improvements.
• Champion knowledge-management practices across the team.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Experience working with SharePoint information architecture, libraries, and metadata.
• Knowledge of taxonomies, tagging structures, and digital content governance.
• Detail-oriented approach with a passion for organisation and consistency.
• Experience managing digital repositories, knowledge libraries, or structured content systems.
• Ability to translate user needs into usable repository structures and workflows.

The role is hybrid - remote with adhoc travel to a northern hub: Manchester/Birmingham/Leeds/Sheffield/Newcastle/Blackpool

As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.