Research Project Manager (m/f)

Duties

• Leads project team and assumes full responsibility for the research project's overall success and results
• Collaborates with stakeholders and partners at global, national, provincial and community level
• Testing research questions and adapt interventions based on evidence and insights
• Using interactive techniques to gain insights on target audience and use evidence-based insights to inform programming
• Liaising between PSI and the local Ethic Committee ensuring all necessary amendments to the study protocol are communicated and implemented on time
• Synthetizing external and internal evidence on effectiveness of interventions in the project
• Ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables
• Manage project and related specific activities within given constrains of time, budget and quality
• Allocate work among field team members and provide guidance regularly
• Conduct situational and data analysis to identify and understand problems or issues that may arise
• Monitors project costs and provides explanations on expenditure

Requisites

• Degree in relevant field, research background or equivalent experience in Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Population Studies, Psychology, Communication, or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in the design, management, analysis, and dissemination of research in Public Health
• Working experience in Market Research (including behavioral segmentation), process evaluations, operational research, evaluations of communications effectiveness, and mobile health technologies
• Ability to design and implement a wide range of quantitative and qualitative health research
• Experience implementing programs at the community-level
• Demonstrated ability to inform programmatic decisions using research results
• Substantial experience with electronic data collection, designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems
• Familiar with electronic data collection systems SurveyCTO and data analysis using STATA, SPSS

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted