Research Specialist at Policy Innovation Centre

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the vision and technical direction of PIC’s projects to ensure the donors’ project goals, objectives, and requirements are fulfilled.
• Work closely with the Executive Director, program/management staff, and study investigators and contribute to overseeing the operations of the PIC’s evaluation and research activities.
• Develop and nurture partnerships with donors, other collaborating implementation partners, and key stakeholders at national and state levels to ensure efficient project implementation and utilization of results. 
• Work closely with the projects’ technical team to synthesize and disseminate key results, programmatic lessons learned, and other project outputs.
•  Oversee the documentation and dissemination of the project’s findings, best practices, and learnings stemming from various project initiatives. 
• Mobilize national research networks and relevant assets within and across partners.
• Identify and promote cutting-edge SBC research, including quantitative and qualitative research and analysis.
• Ensure high-quality research by contributing to the design and execution of research protocols and overseeing the implementation of research studies.
• Develop innovative research approaches that strengthen the quality of proposals and position PIC as an innovative research organization.
• Develop new areas of research for PIC by expanding current portfolios to be responsive to evolving evidence and policy/practice gaps within the African context.

Qualifications/Job Requirements

• Minimum of Master’s degree in Public Health, Social /Behavioral Sciences, Policy Research
• Minimum of 4 -7 years experience in quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods research with evidence of leading   evaluation studies
• Qualitative analysis skills and proficiency in at least one of the following: NVIVO, Atlas Ti, and other qualitative data analysis software.
• Quantitative analysis skills and proficiency in at least one of the following: SPSS, Stata, Excel, and SAS. Knowledge of R, Python, and other quantitative software is desirable.
• Ability to synthesize information, conduct literature reviews, write high-quality technical and research reports, policy and learning briefs, and peer-reviewed articles.
• Experience supervising and leading research teams in all aspects of research implementation
• Ability to work efficiently and commitment to collaboration in achieving results
• Self-directing and able to use own initiative to make decisions and identify solutions to problems not previously experienced.