Objective
- The role holder will support research ingovernance, management and leadership, implementation and communication, and use of evidence and insights.
- He/she willprovide support to the Strategic Research and Learning Unit across MSI Nigeria’s strategic pillars, including public sector support, private sector engagement, client-powered SRH and all the enabling pillars, whilst leveraging global tools and best practices.
- The role also contributes to furthering MSI’s Vision: To create a world in which every birth is wanted and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to have children by choice, not by chance.
Key Responsibilities
Research Governance:
- Contribute to the revision of MSI Nigeria’s standard operating procedures for implementation research, pilots, evaluations, knowledge management and learning.
Research management and leadership:
- Conduct literature reviews and other desk reviews to identify knowledge gaps in research.
- Contribute to the development of research protocols, including design, mixed methodologies, sample estimation, sampling procedures, tools, data management, budgeting, and IRB approval process
- Participate in the selection, onboarding, training, and research of assistants.
- Develop, pretest, and configure questionnaires into electronic formats, e.g., Kobo Toolkit, ONA, Open Data Kit and/or SurveyCTO.
- Design and pretest interview guides.
- Real-time supervision of research assistants to ensure compliance with research protocol, including ethics, timelines, and budget.
Research implementation:
- Conduct large scale client exit surveys, market assessments, and mystery client surveys and human-centred designs, including ideation, prototypes, and pilots.
- Conduct conversational interviews, transcribe, code analyze, and report qualitative data to generate insights.
- Conduct in-depth analyses of strategic quantitative data.
- Triangulate data from multiple sources, including routine Client feedback, Contact Centre, Mystery Client Surveys, and Client Exist Interviews, to generate insights that will guide operations and management decisions.
- Pretest Information, Education and Communication materials, including radio jingles, etc.
Use of Evidence and Insights:
- Provide research evidence and insights to support advocacy, response to requests for proposals, and business development initiatives
- Support donor reporting requirements with survey data, insights, and learnings
- Model the impacts of SRHR programmes and their implications on current and future programmes at the sub-national levels
Research communication:
- Develop abstracts for the internal community of practice and external scientific meetings for adaptive programming.
- Develop manuscripts for publication in revered journals to increase the visibility of the MSI Nigeria experience and best practices.
- Represent MSIN at research-related technical working group meetings with government officials and other partners to ensure the success of programmatic activities.
Qualification and Training
- Master’s Degree in the Social Sciences and/or Public Health.
- A professional qualification in project management is desirable.
Experience:
- Minimum of five years of experience in conducting and /or managing multiple mixed-method implementation research as well as outcome/impact evaluations for international organisations.
- Demonstrated experience in market or consumer research to guide market initiatives
- Experience with quasi-experimental trials and triangulation of data from multiple sources to generate insight.
- Hands-on experience in configuring and managing electronic data collection platforms.
- Experience supervising the electronic data collection process, supporting research assistants.
- Advanced skills in quantitative data management using any statistical packages, including SPSS/Stata or R
- Advanced skills in qualitative data management using any ATLAS. ti or Nvivo, including analysis and reporting
- Strong attention to detail, with results and quality-focused mindset.
- Ability to work independently as well as in teams and enlist the support of other teams to drive the use of evidence for programming
- Ability to maintain a high level of flexibility and organisation to meet time-sensitive operational demands for evidence and insights
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English are required.
- Experience with publishing in revered journals is an added advantage.
Personal Attributes:
- Strategic thinker and excellent analytical skills.
- Strong attention to detail, with a results and quality-focused mindset.
- Ability to work independently as well as a cross-functional team player to enlist the support of other teams to drive the generation and use of evidence for programming.
- Flexibility and organizational skills to meet time-sensitive operational demands for evidence and insights
- Excellent leadership and management aptitude in leading diverse teams remotely.
- Pro-choice.
- Experience with publishing in revered journals is an added advantage
Interested and qualified candidates should send a comprehensive resume with a brief Cover Letter as one MS Word document or PDF to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.
Note
- If you wish to be considered for the post, please specify the position and the location in the subject line.
- Note that the application will not be considered if the underlined instructions are not followed.
- Kindly note that this role is open until filled and we will be conducting Interviews on a rolling basis even while advertisement is still active.
- MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
- MSI Nigeria is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone we serve, particularly vulnerable adults, children, and young people.
- There are no relocation allowances available for this position.
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