Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and implement a project plan to undertake research activities
- Define and agree research project objectives and timeframes
- Plan research process and implement in accordance with union policies and procedures
- Ensure agreed project phases, approval and review points are implemented to accommodate all project management function requirements
- Evaluate research process and report in relation to established project baselines to provide appropriate measures of performance
- Coordinate and undertake the research process
- Define information needs based on work objectives and organisational requirements
- Identify and allocate appropriate resources
- Allocate tasks to identified staff and gain support for the project
- Develop strategies to acquire required information
- Communicate the methods and aims of the research clearly
- Research information in a timely and thorough way and within resource allocation
- Monitor progress of research project and adjust to respond to internal and external factors
- Analyse information and apply the results of analysis
- Ensure specialist data and information is collected, consolidated and analysed to recommend outcomes and to advise trends to senior staff
- Develop appropriate analytical techniques and processes, and apply to information in order to achieve defined objectives and meet requirements
- Analyse information to identify facts, issues, patterns, interrelationships and trends
- Undertake all work in a timely manner and meet defined standards of the union
- Manage information systems
- Compile reports from information analysis
- Use the findings from the analysis to provide advice and to develop policies and solutions which meet organisational requirements
- Ensure reporting of results from analysis of information includes predictions, assumptions and constraints
- Ensure reporting of results and analysis of information is logically sequenced, concise and clear
- Evaluate the research process
- Identify and communicate criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of research project and phases
- Implement and monitor key measurements to evaluate the effectiveness of research processes
- Debrief all staff involved in research project on progress and outcomes
- Use appropriate strategies to ensure project outcomes are used effectively