Job Title: Research Officer – Stretch In School
Organisation: War Child Holland (WCH)
Duty Station: Isingiro, Uganda
Reports to: Researcher Stigma Reduction
About US:
War Child Holland (WCH) is an independent and impartial international non-governmental organization, investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. War Child is a dynamic organization with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We strive to empower children and young people while enabling adults to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of conflict-affected children and young people.
About Project:
STRETCH in School is a 3-month intervention to reduce stigmatization among school leadership and teachers. STRETCH has been developed through rigorous formative research and is now ready for feasibility testing.
Main Responsibilities:
Research implementation:
- To be the field focal point for the process of cross-cultural adaptation of three stigma instruments.
- To be the field focal point for the field-testing of STRETCH in School.
- To document feedback, learnings and adaptations. Ethical standards such as confidentiality will be observed at all times as per the set WC standard.
- To communicate regularly between the researcher, research team and research participants.
- To support logistical arrangements to facilitate the implementation of the research (e.g. budget monitoring)
HR function:
- To be the field focal point for the research assistants and the project officers
- Analysis:
- Contribute to the analysis through support to data entry, cleaning, coding etc.
Dissemination:
- Support dissemination to Isingiro stakeholders, including research participants
- Contribute to the academic dissemination through co-authoring journal articles
Representation:
- Represent this research at Isingiro district level
Other tasks:
- Other tasks that are identified to benefit proper research implementation and advance War Child’s research agenda
The successful candidate must be willing to relocate to Isingiro district if s/he is not currently a resident there.
Position in the organization and essential functional relations
Other essential working relations include; Isingiro Team Leader; Research Assistants; Education Coordinator; Finance staff; and other project staff.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- To contribute to the research protocol development, submission and approval
- To identify and (co-)conduct inception meetings and talks in Isingiro with key stakeholders (OPM; colleague NGOs etc)
- To plan and adjust activities required for the success of the project, providing feedback and based on the discussions with the researcher
- To lead communication between the research team and study population (i.e. school leadership, teachers) and other study participants (learners, and their caregivers)
- To establish and maintain positive relationships and constructive dialogue between stakeholders
- To document feedback, learnings, challenges and adaptation from implementation
- To support with preparations, mobilisation and logistics
- To co-facilitate and participate in the study trainings and practice to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out the data collection.
- To seek consent from the main target group (school leadership; teachers) or assent from primary school children to participate, together with consent from their caregivers.
- To enter responses accurately (without alterations or omissions) during the interviews onto the notebooks/dairies
- To liaise with the researcher on reporting issues to ensure understanding and to maintain accuracy.
- To work within a team and have a professional and ethical attitude towards all the research stakeholders (upholding child safeguarding principles at all times).
- To use feedback provided positively to improve data collection quality.
- Is able and willing to travel in refugee settlements (transport is provided).
- To attend and participate in meetings when needed.
- Any other duties as assigned by the Researcher in fulfillment of the tasks.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Degree in a relevant study, such as Education, Social sciences, Development studies, health, child protection, M&E, etc.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in conducting surveys preferably with children and/or adults in the refugee setting.
- At least 2 years of experience in conducting field-based research or data collection.
- Experience in research, monitoring and evaluation is desirable.
- Must be able to speak, read, write and type in English.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken).
- Experience working in a humanitarian context i.e., challenging environment with limited oversight
- Experience with relevant stakeholders i.e., engaging with caregivers/parents with children.
- Able to meet deadlines and communicate delays effectively
- Having a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Be a child-friendly person and act in the best interest of a child
- Having the ability to document and produce concise, informative and appropriate written documentation
- Having excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal focus group discussion moderation and note-taking skills.
- Having facilitation and interview skills. i.e., the ability to transcribe qualitative interviews.
- Is eager to learn, ask questions and provide feedback on how to do things better. Shares where something did not go well to learn from it together.
NB: Commitment to the vision and goals of War Child Holland in Uganda, including adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy, is essential”
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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