IPA Senior Research Associate Jobs in Uganda

IPA Senior Research Associate Jobs in Uganda

This position provides an excellent opportunity to gain extensive hands‐on experience in a field setting and to have significant management responsibility in a vibrant organization undertaking cutting‐edge development research.

Key areas of involvement will include: piloting, designing survey questionnaires, recruiting, training and managing survey teams, designing and supervising logistics for the field activities, cleaning and analyzing survey data, managing a mixed-methods process evaluation and assisting in the writing of project reports and policy memos.

Responsibilities

Developing and piloting the survey instruments and interventions, including programming digital data collection; managing the translation and back-translation of the survey into the local language.

Refinement of the methodology, data collection tools, and data analysis plan of the process evaluation

Finalizing cleaning of baseline data and process evaluation data

Hiring, training, and managing the field teams that will conduct the data collections.

Managing all field logistics, procuring products, and getting approvals from local authorities.

Ensuring all data quality protocols are followed including auditing enumerators and performing daily checks of the incoming data; correcting the errors of staff iteratively to ensure the data is of the highest quality.

Managing the data from collection at the household to delivery of a final, cleaned dataset.

Managing the budget including tracking all expenses to ensure costs are within project funds.

Managing the project budget and field expenses. formulation of direction and strategy

Act as a liaison between the research team and the AVSI implementation team and

manage communications and relationships with Principle Investigators and other members of the research team

Perform related duties as assigned by supervisor

Maintain compliance with all IPA policies and procedures

Requirements

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in economics, statistics, data science, international development, social sciences, or related field;

Minimum two years of research project experience at a field research management or analyst position in developing countries;

Proficiency with Stata, SurveyCTO programming language and Microsoft Office tools; programming and other technical knowledge a plus

Familiarity with randomized controlled trials
Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with stakeholders (especially principal investigators and partner organizations);
Strong written communication skills;
Excellent command of English, both spoken and written;
Demonstrated commitment to IPA’s high standards of data quality;
Excellent management and organizational skills;
Demonstrated ability to coordinate work effectively over email and phone:
Flexible, self-motivating and team player.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 10th July, 2019

For more information and job application details, see; IPA Senior Research Associate Jobs in Uganda

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