Research Specialist at the Policy Innovation Centre (PIC)

The Policy Innovation Centre (PIC) is the first national institutionalized behavioral initiative in Africa supporting government and stakeholders to make behaviorally informed decisions and generate evidence for impact-driven interventions in critical thematic areas (Governance, Health, Gender & Social Inclusion, Education, Digital & Financial Inclusion). The PIC is positioned to support the delivery of better policies and innovative solutions for high-impact interventions across Africa. The PIC is an initiative of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), a leading think tank in Africa redefining evidence-based policy advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Research Specialist

Location: Nigeria

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 will 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
• 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.

Application Closing Date
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