Temporary Research Officer at Flexi-Personnel

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the development of study protocols, application for ethical approvals and research permits.
• Coordinate the recruitment, training and supervision of field staff during data collection.
• Participate in development and review of study tools, training manuals and field guides to use for data collection.
• Undertake desk and literature reviews.
• Support with quantitative data management and analysis.
• Participate in scientific publications and other dissemination resources such as technical reports, donor reports, policy briefs and blogs.
• Contribute to proposal development efforts at the Center.
• Contribute to various stakeholder engagement activities such as inception meetings and policy engagement.
• Participate in workshops, meetings, conferences and report on the proceedings.
• Support knowledge management and learning activities in the project.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in any of the following areas: Gender and Development studies, Education, Population Studies/Demography, Statistics, Epidemiology, Economics or related discipline.
• At least two years’ experience in a research setting.
• Experience conducting field research and managing data collection teams.
• Proven qualitative data collection and analysis skills, with familiarity with related analysis packages Nvivo or Atlas ti.
• Proven quantitative data collection and analysis skills, with familiarity with related analysis packages STATA, SPSS, R.
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, juggle tasks and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work in a culturally diverse team.
• Must be able to communicate and write in English.