CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space being designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place. The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Research Associate
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- The successful candidate will conduct research, produce reports and carry out analytics and visualization related to the public health sectors and trends.
- You will have experience contributing to the development of applied research projects in a formal context and will need to show evidence of experience contributing to at least one research project outside their academic research.
Responsibilities
Technical:
- Research and mine datasets to create impactful analyses and visualizations on the Unit’s key projects.
- Review large amounts of data from multiple sources and curate the relevant facts.
- Perform statistical analysis using R/Stata and Qualitative analysis tools.
- Leverage analytical techniques and technologies to interrogate, visualize and understand data sets.
- Support data and design production to research, scrape, refine, verify and interpret data to serve Design for Health’s portfolios.
- Produce data and visualization packages in coordination with the Research team.
- Work proactively and think critically to improve data and study design components of projects, tools and data stories created by the team.
Research Planning and Management:
- Project-manage research projects, including creating and managing plans, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and stakeholders contributions.
- Contribute to a portfolio of impactful research projects, from design to data collection, analysis, and follow-through.
- Provide any other necessary support as needed.
Research Production and Distribution:
- Contribute to the development of project reports and other knowledge products including research articles, briefings and presentations.
- Directly contribute to and manage creation of research reports and presentations including drafting the findings report and presentation and collaborating with stakeholders on design and production.
- Manage the process and ensure research findings/reports/presentations are announced and distributed. Seek and manage the development and distribution of new/innovative methods for sharing the finding with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
We are looking for a researcher who combines excellent technical skills and experience in project and team management, including:
- Graduate’s Degree in Statistics or Development Research or a related field.
- At least 2 years work experience in a research field or as a data analyst.
- Experience undertaking research in the health sector is strongly desirable.
- Knowledge and skills in Qualitative and Quantitative research methods.
- Experience in writing proposals, research write ups.
- Experience in developing research tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Experience using statistical languages such as R/Stata
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including proven success in ability to present ideas and concepts effectively and persuasively
- Strong analytical skills, numerical confidence and ability to translate numbers into clear insights and recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience in managing research projects.
- Solid project management skills to oversee a portfolio of projects at different stages in the research lifecycle.
- A critical thinker, who is curious, intuitive and pays attention to details
- Innovative with ideas on approaches to collecting, evaluating and modelling datasets that will be used as the foundation for the company’s future solutions
- Strong work ethic and thrives working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
What We Offer
- Paid time off
- Healthcare coverage
- A highly collaborative team environment that will support your professional and personal growth
- Work alongside great talent.
- A culture of learning and innovation.
- Opportunities for career growth and training.
- Interaction with industry leaders and forward-thinking people.
- A chance to make a social difference.
- Overall fun company.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online