Research Officer , African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out high quality, policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. The Center seeks to recruit aResearch Officer, with excellent qualitative skills and a working knowledge of quantitative skills or excellent quantitative skills and a working knowledge of qualitative skills to work within its Education Research Program.The ideal candidate should have strong interest in education research.

 

Responsibilities

• Lead the process of obtaining ethical approval
• Develop study tools, training manuals and field guides to use for data collection
• Coordinate the recruitment, training and supervision of field team
• Coordinate field work and be responsible for data quality
• Mobilize and educate the community in relation to the research project
• Participate in the development of research proposals
• Conduct literature review and participate in writing scientific papers
• Prepare regular field and project reports
• Participate in dissemination of research findings and policy dialogue with appropriate audiences
• Prepare policy briefs and fact sheets from the projects’ findings
• Other duties as required.

Required

• Masters degree in any of the following: Education, Sociology, Economics, Statistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Developmental Studies or in other related social sciences
• At least 3 years’ post qualification experience, preferably in a research setting
• Good computer literacy and knowledge of multiple statistical and/or qualitative software packages such as STATA, SPSS or NVivo
• Experience conducting field research preferably in schooling and education settings, and managing a research team
• Excellent oral and written communication in English
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, juggle tasks and meet tight deadlines.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply through our recruitment portal http://jobs.aphrc.orgby 25^th March 2016.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Cover letter should be addressed to:

 

The Human Resources Officer

African Population and Health Research Center, Inc

APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru

P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi

Website: www.aphrc.org