Major Responsibilities
New Project Development
Lead the conceptualization, design, and
development of new research projects, including writing study protocols,
drafting analysis plans, developing, and validating tools for implementation,
monitoring, and collecting data.
Lead the identification and engagement of
international and local scientific partners to enhance scientific rigor,
credibility, and local uptake.
Participate in funding acquisition via
contributing to proposal writing and preparing study budgets in close
collaboration with country teams.
Lead the engagement with country teams to
ensure alignment of study idea and proper planning and contribution during the
design, funding acquisition and field preparation phase
Lead ethical approval processes for new studies, including writing, submitting, and managing ethics approval requests at national and international levels.
Advise on the set up of data collection,
monitoring, and study implementation.
Provide hands-on support to the set up and roll
out of studies and surveys via visits to the field and collaborating with local
partners and field teams.
Study Implementation and Field Team Support
Supervise the Research Coordinators/Managers in
country via Management in Partnership arrangements with country office
counterparts.
Oversee the planning of studies including the
set-up of spending, HR, procurement and implementation plans and the monitoring
of the timely execution.
Provide on-going training on implementation,
data collection and monitoring to field teams.
Partner with data management and analysis teams
to ensure regular data monitoring and provide concrete action steps for field
teams to improve implementation and data quality.
Participate in on-site supervision of ongoing
studies and provide training via regular field visits.
Work with our communications team on
documentation and materials for external communication and be the focal point
between field and HQ in communication activities.
Ensure thorough documentation of learning from
research projects.
Evidence Production
Draft analysis plans for answering priority
research questions with the existing data in collaboration with scientific
advisors and the IRC nutrition research team.
Perform data analysis using Stata or R
according to validated analysis plans and including step-by-step explanations
and interpretation of output.
Lead and contribute to the write up manuscripts
for peer-reviewed and practitioner journals, including the submission and
revision of manuscripts in collaboration with co-authors.
Identify and connect with internal and external
experts for guidance and collaboration on different evidence pieces.
Oversee consultants and students working on
specific evidence production pieces.
Present findings from studies to internal and
external audiences including in conferences and webinars and other appropriate
platforms
Job Requirements
Education and Experience
Masters/PhD in Public Health, Nutrition, or
related field.
A minimum 6 years (if master’s level) or 4
years (if PhD level) of experience in research project design, implementation,
and production of evidence in the field of health/nutrition.
Experience in nutrition programming and/or
research.
Experience leading research projects in the
field in fragile and development settings.
Experience in community-based management of
acute malnutrition (CMAM) strongly preferred.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies
Strong data analysis skills including data
manipulation in statistical software (STATA or R), analysis, sampling, and
epidemiology.
Demonstrated competency in writing quantitative
research articles (please add references to CV).
Competency in qualitative research is a
plus.
Good coordination and communication skills to
collaborate with scientific advisors in the development of protocols and write
up of peer-review manuscripts.
Ability to take decisions and advance in
situations with potentially diverging opinions.
Good IT skills required (Windows environment,
Microsoft Office package
Working knowledge of mobile data collection
software (CommCare, ODK preferred).
Ability to work independently while being an
active member of the research team.
Committed to upholding diversity, equality and
inclusion principles.
Language skills: Fluency in English and working
proficiency in French is required.
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