Senior Research Associate Non-profit Jobs – BRAC International

Job Title:      Senior Research Associate
Organisation: BRAC International
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
BRAC
International is one of the world’s largest Non-Governmental Development
Organizations, working in a number of countries in Africa and Asia on poverty
alleviation Programs, is registered in Uganda as BRAC Uganda. The organization
implements integrated development approach combining Education, Health,
Agriculture, Livestock, Adolescent Empowerment and Microfinance.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Write research proposals and projects and
    contribute to the design and lead the piloting of quantitative survey
    instruments
  • Responsible for designing and overseeing
    survey of research projects.
  • Organize and lead the training of enumerators
    for data collection, and manage the field implementation of
    surveys-involving monitoring the central server as well as the activities
    of enumerators in the field, to ensure maximum data quality
  • Actively participate and lead the programming
    of survey instruments on tablet computers and writing research reports
  • Ensure quality data collection, cleaning, and
    analysis.
  • Perform any other duties as may be assigned
    by the supervisor from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Senior Research
    Associate career opportunity should hold a Master’s Degree in Economics,
    Statistics or any other related quantitative disciplines.
  • Professional certificate in Research
    Methodology or data analysis will be of an added advantage.
  • Good knowledge / skills in mix methods of
    research especially quantitative.
  • Previous experience and skills in data
    analysis especially using STATA, for quantitative and any qualitative data
    analysis package.
  • Capacity to design research instruments like
    questionnaires and supervise data collection.
  • Working knowledge of digital data management
    like ODK, Survey CTO.
  • Prior experience working in developing
    countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Knowledge of ArcGIS or any other geographic
    information systems.
  • Previous experience in research and
    evaluation, research communication, development management, quantitative
    research or any related capacity on such issues, will be of an added
    advantage.
  • Excellent written and oral communication
    skills
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their application
letters, Curriculum Vitae not scanned (including bio-data such as: Date of
birth, Education qualification, language proficiency, work experience and at
least three professional referees in Ms. Office Word Document) and all Scanned
copies of academic /other supporting documents. They should all be merged into
one PDF file. In total, there must only be two attachments sent to
hrd.uganda@brac.net.
Deadline: 18th June 2016
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