Senior Analyst focusing on quantitative research methodologies within Busara's Technical Vertical addressing development sector challenges. Engaging in various applied research across multiple impact areas.
Responsibilities
Conduct research preparation activities, including literature reviews.
Engage in multiple large-scale research and advisory projects at a given time.
Manage external and internal engagements independently and with limited supervision.
Interpret, evaluate, and clarify research requests to determine potential data sources and informational resources; identify and discuss research needs with Associates and Directors.
Provide customized reports, highlighting main findings and key points, and effectively communicate the results to the end-user both orally and in writing.
Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve inquiries on external and internal research data and act as a research resource person for senior leadership, internal teams, staff, and external parties.
Recommend data sources and make recommendations on all phases of projects. Work closely, when necessary, with the data and programming team to source, clean, and structure data.
Design effective quantitative survey instruments and guide the team on all activities associated with survey development and data collection, including formatting, liaising with survey programming teams, analyzing, summarizing, and presenting results; write reports highlighting key findings and present results.
Contribute to the drafting of client reports, experimental designs, literature reviews, proposals, and pitch decks.
Contribute to project onboarding and offboarding for knowledge management.
Ensure that all project work is communicated with the relevant teams at Busara to ensure proper roll-out of the engagement. This includes, but is not limited to, finance, procurement, operations, facilities, and wellness.
Maintain and update project timelines. Alert project teams of upcoming deadlines, deliverables, and meetings.
Provide support as required for staff trainings organized and led by the Technical Vertical.
Perform any other duty as may be assigned by the project supervisor.
Maintain an understanding of the high-level engagement, the goals of the clients, partners, and teams within Busara, and continually push the project teams to realign around those goals.
Identify generalizable lessons and ensure that project teams are working with the most relevant, up-to-date knowledge and insights.
Work on the most sensitive or complex projects, often with minimal supervision or support.
Execute the core project responsibilities with the highest degree with respect to creativity, rigor, relevance, detail, and timeliness.
Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Strong quantitative research skills, backed by a sound working knowledge of inferential statistics
Up to 2 years of previous work experience in a related field
Familiarity with behavioral science.
Familiarity with R, STATA, Python, SAS, and/or other programming languages
Familiarity with basic experimentation and experimental design
Demonstrates the ability to manage high-level relationships with partner organizations.
Excellent management and organizational skills.
Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and a team player.
Must have a growth mindset, and have interest and experience working in a fast-paced environment.
Fluency and excellent communication, and writing skills with a mastery of English
Extreme attention to detail while sustaining a global focus and vision for institutional planning and decision making.
Benefits
We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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