Job Title: Research Manager/ Associate Research Manager – IPA Uganda Jobs 2022
Organization: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Country Director/Country Director
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Profile:
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is developing a transaction cost index (TCI) for digital financial services (DFS), a resource to systematically capture and report the cost of DFS transactions across multiple countries. The TCI will capture the full cost of completing mobile money transactions, including official listed prices, additional “off-the-books” agent fees, and non-pecuniary costs such as wait times, incidence of failed transactions, and agents asking to view customers’ sensitive account information. The index will capture three different transaction types: depositing cash into digital wallets, withdrawing cash from wallets, and transferring funds between individuals.
Job Summary:
Associate Research Managers manage a portfolio of about two to three projects and Research Managers about five projects depending on the nature of the projects and the level of involvement necessary. These projects include both research and project implementation components. They span a range of sectoral areas, such as finance, agriculture, health, education and gender issues. As part of their supervisory role, the Associate Research Managers/ Research Manager works closely with the country office to ensure effective support is provided to projects, and that projects are working within the relevant policies and procedures. Associate Research Managers /Research Managers are members of research management team; thus they play a role through contributions to country program development, project development, policy conversations as well as capacity building. Research Managers are assigned projects based on their experience and particular skills that are best suited to those projects. Research Managers and Associate Research Managers hold equivalent responsibilities, however, workloads and assigned projects reflect their relative levels of experiences and professional development.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Keep the Country Director apprised of all developments on the projects in their portfolio, and serve as key link between the field office, project staff, and Principal Investigators
- Ensure project adherence in the field to general research design, sample selection, data management and analysis, and overall project management
- Oversee project financial management, including creation and monitoring of project budgets, and ensure smooth integration of projects into IPA financial systems
- Work with field office staff to ensure sound human resource and operational management of projects
- Directly supervise project research staff (Research Associates and Field Managers), and help with transitions, on-boarding of new research staff and maintaining “institutional memory” of project activities
- Ensure that project deliverables, such as reports and financial statements, are submitted to donors and partners on time
- Lead training on data management and general project management for new/incoming project research staff
- Promote inter-project best practices and take a lead in sharing best practices with projects through formal and informal training opportunities
- Be the point of contact for data management and analysis support for project staff by serving as the link between projects and IPA headquarters
- Attend meetings with local government officials and partners to ensure success of both project specific and key IPA programmatic activities
- When requested, support the dissemination of results via presentations and reports to academic and non-academic audiences
- Support the Country Director in the development of new research studies in cooperation with principal investigators and partner organizations
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in related field, such as development economics, public policy, public health, or education policy
- Up to two years of research or project management experience for a Associate Research Manager and more than two years for a Research Manager
- Strong budgeting and financial management skills; experience with writing donor reports and grant proposals
- Strong written and oral communication skills and complete fluency in English is required
- Experience supervising data collection, teams of field workers, survey design and implementation and data management. Background in randomized control trials is strongly preferred
- Cultural sensitivity and demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse constituencies required; developing country experience required
- Quantitative skills; working knowledge of Stata. Knowledge of other statistical packages such as SPSS or R are not required, but are a plus
- An analytical mind, ability to interpret and organize data
- Resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to new challenges, especially, in software and programming.
- Commitment to this position for two years
- Flexible and proactive work ethic with a demonstrated interest in the vision and mission of IPA
Additional Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced experience with data management
- Demonstrated experience in cleaning large datasets.
- A good level of do-file literacy.
- Knowledge on how to increase code efficiency by using loops and macros.
- Demonstrated experience in using STATA in data visualization.
- Familiarity with both linear and non-linear regression types and their appropriate usage.
- A good level of understanding of statistical power.
- Advanced experience with applied statistics
- Familiarity with both linear and non-linear regression types and their appropriate usage.
- A good level of understanding of the statistical power concept.
- Experience with electronic data collection platforms
- Demonstrated ability to work with donors and/or partner organizations; experience with grants management
- Experience with presenting research findings at public forums, including to non-research focused audiences, is preferred
How To Apply for IPA Uganda Jobs 2022
All interested and suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications through the link below.
Closing Date: Applications will be processed on a rolling basis
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