Salary
💰 RWF 5,566,842 per month
About the role
- Manage one or two research projects: coordinating the project team; ensuring implementation according to protocols; managing to the budget and timeline; and communicating with clients.
- Play a hands-on role in all steps of the research process: designing the technical approach; developing protocols, research instruments, and sampling strategies; monitoring data quality; conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis; writing reports; and presenting to clients.
- Contribute to the development of new business: proposing research ideas; writing technical proposals; and pricing.
- Improve the way we work: researching and piloting new methodologies and technologies; standardizing and automating processes for data collection and analysis; and supporting internal operations like recruitment and IT.
- Develop skills and experience in technical design of research projects, data analysis, business development, and managing a portfolio of research projects.
Requirements
- A master’s degree in Education, Economics, Statistics, Public Health, Public Policy, Sociology or a related field.
- For the Research Associate position, a minimum of three (3) years of professional research experience.
- For the Research Analyst position, a minimum of one (1) year of professional experience performing similar tasks.
- Strong analytical skills, experience working with quantitative data, and proficiency in Stata (preferred), Python and/or R.
- Experience communicating with external stakeholders or in a client-facing role.
- Solid project management skills and experience coordinating projects with multiple components or teams.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Experience working with primary data (data collection or cleaning and analysis) (valued).
- Experience with Open Data Kit (ODK) or an ODK-based platform such as SurveyCTO or CommCare (valued).
- Previous work experience in East Africa and deep familiarity with the Rwandan context (valued).
- Research experience in one of Laterite’s core sectors - agriculture, education, gender, livelihoods and public health (valued).