Senior Market Research Project Officer - Biomass at Burn Nigeria

BURN is the largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company in the world, providing world-class R&D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects from our HQ in Kenya and across 10 countries in Africa. We are working to create a world where cooking positively impacts all life on earth by producing the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves. Our team of 900 people - 51% of whom are women - is on track to produce and sell over 150,000 stoves per month in 2022 at our solar-powered facility in Kenya.

We are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Market Research Project Officer - Biomass

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing collaborative, strategic partnerships with internal stakeholder delivery business unit teams to be their trusted advisor for research execution from design to delivery.
• Ability to interpret research requests and lead brainstorming sessions with internal stakeholders.  
• Owning project management for assigned product lines leading ongoing projects to ensure the full Insights team delivers the overall project on time, to budget and to scope. 
• Creating, owning, and managing end-to-end project plans, including optimizing the value in what we deliver through leading the scope of work. 
• Develop accurate study tools, i.e., questionnaires and discussion guides that align with study objectives, Proficiency with the Kobo App tool and other scripting platforms. 
• Crafting research problems, hypothesis to be tested, sample compositions to fulfil the objective of the studyand identifying the relevant type of methodology for execution. 
• Creating straightforward ways of working to set the team up for success, clarifying accountabilities, dependencies and expectations and holding people/teams to account. 
• Identifying and mitigating risks/resolving problems. 
• Providing strong consultancy and support in critical issue situations, coaching, and embedding standard methodology project management within the team. 
• Interpret and triangulate multiple data sources to develop comprehensive story- and data-driven reports to significantly address business objectives. 
• Skills and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree level of Education 

• Experience working with a Social Enterprise, Market Research Role and/or other relevant fields.  
• Minimum of 8 years of demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative methodologies.  
• Strong commitment and capacity to engage internal stakeholders and product designers through a participatory and consultative approach to strategy development.  
• Experience in data management, analysis, study designs and data quality  
• Ability to navigate the internal organization structure and work with stakeholders across regions and cultures. 
• Self-driven and able to ideate and scope own deliverables. 
• Ability to interpret research requests and lead brainstorming sessions with internal stakeholders. 
• Crafting research problems, and hypotheses to be tested. 
• Identify relevant research study types and methodologies for execution. 
• Craft representative sample compositions to fulfil the objective of the study. 
• Develop accurate study tools, i.e., questionnaires and discussion guides that are in line with study objectives. 
• Proficiency with the Kobo App tool and other scripting platforms. 
• Skills and experience in analysis of raw data using Excel, SPSS, Power BI,and any other similar platform.
• Experience in project planning and budgeting. 
• Proficiency in PowerPoint Presentations. 
• Designing qualitative studies and tools. 
• Facilitating moderation of qualitative approaches. 
• Qualitative analysis through Excelgrids, NVivo, Dedoose and any other platforms
• Team management in terms of reviews of study plans, tools, and reports. 

Application Closing Date
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