Position: Research Officer

Organization: Evidence Action

Location: Delhi

Responsibilities:

• With guidance, design and implement MLE strategies catering to organization priorities. These include strategies for data capture, return, entry, cleaning, analysis, storage, and other related activities.
• Participate actively in efforts and initiatives to ideate, develop and implement new research/ operation research activities.
• Lead and support the MLE team in ethical approval processes for various surveys.
• Support in design research protocols, survey instruments and techniques and its administration, monitoring and quality control.
• Review of scientific papers and prepare a database of research and evidence around deworming and other relevant issues for sharing with stakeholders.
• Design and develop operational research /research activities including designing research protocols, survey instruments, training, monitoring and quality control related to the deworming and other related areas.
• Will participate, input and consolidate inputs on various research and evaluation designs, tools and other MLE activities.
• Stay current on technical knowledge, including WHO and national guidelines for helminth control and latest research and publications, and share latest developments with others team/s.
• Support in writing publications, reports, articles and other research material and ensure research is published in peer reviewed journals.
• Support in disseminating findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly methods.
• Support in monitoring and ensure the quality of the data collection and data management during the implementation phase of Research, Epidemiological prevalence surveys and ensure quality in the analysis and report writing phase.
• Coordinate preparation and compilation of reports (monthly, quarterly and annual) with state offices for internal use and reporting to global office and donors as appropriate;
• Support in developing and managing partnerships, developing contracts and agreements for conducting research and prevalence survey activities.
• Coordinate with states and partners for appropriate planning and implementation of Prevalence surveys, evaluation tools and plans as recommended.
• Perform any other related tasks as required.
• Willing to travel at least 30% of the time as assigned.

Disclaimer:The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications, Experience, and Competencies

Essentials

• Advanced degree in statistics/biostatistics/public health/demography/population studies, economics or related field of data science with background in public health or related field.
• 3-5 years of work experience related to designing, implementation of Research, M&E components of national level public health programs.
• Experience of handling large scale datasets and work experience in reputed academic or research/survey organizations is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with command and experience of working with quantitative software like Stata or SPSS is essential. Excellent interpersonal skills, sound judgment, communication skills, training experience, ability to identify and resolve policy and operational constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills in Hindi and English.
• Willingness to travel as and when required, and often on short notice.

Desirables

• Knowledge and experience of using qualitative software like N-Vivo or Atlas-ti is desirable.
• Proven data management with quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Prior experience in managing data collection, preferably for a field experiment.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work in teams, result oriented and culturally diverse environment.
• Self-motivated, strong initiative. Experience and ability working with senior government officials at state and district level.

Benefits

Compensation: Competitive and commensurate with the individual's credentials, experience, and previous pay scale.