Our Associate Directors of Research and Innovation are the senior project leaders who drive delivery of the funded projects that make up our overall programme. The role requires a mix of research and innovation leadership, excellent communications and networking skills, and the ability to drive projects to deliver policy and market change to make a positive difference to people''s financial security and financial wellbeing. You will work across some or all of the following areas: Financial Resilience: Our work in this area focuses on identifying solutions and interventions to help people to manage financial shocks or volatility without recourse to damaging solutions such as high-cost credit Savings: Millions of people in the UK lack cash savings, which enable them to self-ensure against shocks and build foundations for longer-term saving and asset-building. Our work in this area identifies, tests and promotes adoption of solutions that support people to build cash savings. Assets, wealth and pensions: Auto enrolment has brought millions of people into building invested wealth for the first time. But in most cases, this remains the only wealth they have. Our work in this area addresses approaches to building out asset-ownership including housing and non-pension investments. It also seeks to address those groups, such as the self-employed, where pension saving lags behind those included in auto enrolment, as well as on how to optimise the design of AE in future to balance ..... full job details .....