Be careful if you are about to join the Research Insight and Evaluation team or Centre for Global Research, whichever name Chief Research Officer (or Managing Director) Gerry Power has decided to call it on any given day. He may have called it something else by now - its name changed several times while I was there as does his job title it seems.
The leadership has a very high opinion of themselves. They can turn on the charm in the interview but it quickly faded away the more I worked with them. They have no people-management skills at all.
First of all, you will have zero work-life balance. The leadership could contact you at literally any time of the day or night or on literally any day of the year - whether you are on holiday, with your family, sleeping etc. They don't care what you are doing and expect you to put them first. If you don't work ridiculous hours or weekends - sometimes even every weekend, then you will be seen as doing the bare minimum.
The management style veers from one extreme to the other. It is either ultra micro micro management where everything will be nit picked and you will spend hours having 4 or 5 meetings a day talking about the format of a table or the colour of a font. Or it will be the other extreme and literally not a word will be said and no direction or management will be offered at all. There is no balance.
The same is true for criticism. There is no constructive, development focused criticism. Instead you will likely be belittled or even insulted publicly. Either that or given gushing praise. Again, no middle ground. Ditto training and professional development. I don't think it was even mentioned once while I was there.
You will most likely be hired on a short term contract - if you are lucky it will be 3 months, if you are very lucky it will be more. This means there is a high level of churn in the team but also high levels of stress and anxiety amongst the junior staff (especially), which the leadership seem completely oblivious to - or perhaps they know full well but choose to ignore.