MAIN PURPOSE
This is a key role within Asal’s Research and Learning department, with responsibility for managing and delivering high-profile research and learning work across learning, skills and employment. The role involves the design and development of projects; leading fieldwork and data collection activities; supporting management of budgets and resources; working effectively with team members, research partners, funders and other stakeholders; overseeing delivery of high-quality research; and ensuring that our work makes an impact on policy and practice.
The ideal candidate will bring strong research skills, a track record of delivering projects and an interest in the policy and/or delivery context for learning for locally driven adaptation strategies and climate action.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, manage and deliver multiple research projects across climate change adaptation, policy development and action. This includes liaising with funders, managing project teams, ensuring that work is delivered to time and quality expectations, and within budget.
- Proactively engage with colleagues across Asal and its partners to ensure that policy, practice and stakeholder engagement is underpinned by robust research evidence and achieves impact.
- Develop and implement appropriate research methodologies and methods, evaluation strategies and research tools.
- Lead data collection in project locations and ensure quality control.
- Lead on the production of high-quality research and policy reports.
- Represent project partnership to key stakeholders – including national and local government, trusts and foundations, providers, and other research centres and think tanks.
- In collaboration with Principal Investigator and Asal Head of Research, support the development and training of the wider stakeholder groups.
- Line manage researchers, as required.
- Contribute to Asal’s climate change wider agenda of influencing policy, supporting better practice and promoting locally- formulated adaption strategies.
- Contribute to a positive, open and collaborative approach, operating in line with Asal’s core values and Code of Conduct including the organisation’s Safeguarding Policy.
- Travel within Somalia will be required.
CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL
- Master’s degree (in a relevant subject), equivalent qualifications or evidence of equivalent research and analysis experience.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, that ensure work is effectively prioritised to meet deadlines.
- Ability to develop and utilise appropriate qualitative methods and tools to support high quality research and analysis.
- Ability to work under own initiative with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a range of audiences, stakeholders, funders and partners.
- Proven skills in writing for and speaking to a range of audiences to ensure impact.
- Understanding and application of a range of research and evaluation methodologies and methods.
- Proven track record in delivering research projects to meet funders’ requirements, including to time and quality expectations, within budget.
- Experience in developing research proposals and proven track record of securing funding.
- Experience in conducting conflict-sensitive research and ability to facilitate learning sessions in fragile and conflict affected societies.
DESIRABLE
- Understanding of climate action adaptation policy and/or practice across Africa and/or Horn of Africa.
- Well-developed skills in designing, managing and delivering a range of research projects including effective and efficient resource allocation.
Please share e-mail your CV and cover letter in the link box provided. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
