Thematic Research Head (2 Employment Opportunities) – Kampala – BRAC International

About US:
BRAC International is one of the world’s largest Non-Governmental Development Organizations, working in a number of countries in Africa and Asia on poverty alleviation Programs, is registered in Uganda as BRAC Uganda. The organization implements integrated development approach combining Education, Health, Agriculture, Livestock, Adolescent Empowerment and Microfinance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
· The incumbent will initiate new projects in consultation with respective programme and research teams, mobilize resources and build relationships with external research partners.
· Ensure project adherence in the field to general research design, sample selection, data management and analysis, and overall project management
· The job holder will oversee project financial management
· Work collaboratively with relevant departments to ensure sound human resource development and operational management of projects.
· Directly supervise and mentoring project researchers (Research Associates, Research Assistants, Field Supervisors), and help with continuation and on-boarding of new research staff.
· Actively promote inter-project best practices and take a lead in sharing best practices with projects through periodical meetings and training opportunities.
· Attend meetings with development organizations, universities, and government officials.
· Support the dissemination of results via presentations and reports to academic and non- academic audiences.
· Maintain effective communication between BRAC International, Country Representative and Program Managers for all developments on the research projects.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The ideal candidate should preferably hold a postgraduate degree, preferably PhD In economics, agricultural economics, development economics, sociology, anthropology, public health, rural development, or any other related field.
· Excellent demonstrated ability to coordinate with other important organization
· Excellent and analytical and demonstrated ability to write reports and publish findings in peer-reviewed journals.
· Demonstrated ability to combine quantitative and qualitative research methods.
· Previous exposure and experience with data management statistics, and advanced knowledge of Stata, Nvivo, Atlas ti or any other data analysis packages.
· Strong qualitative and quantitative skills.
· Demonstrate ability to supervise and qualitative and quantitative skills.
· Ability to identify relevant partners, maintain existing relations, and build new linkages and effectively facilitate stakeholder processes on poverty issues.

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their application letters, Curriculum Vitae not scanned (including bio-data such as: Date of birth, Education qualification, language proficiency, work experience and at least three professional referees in Ms. Office Word Document) and all Scanned copies of academic /other supporting documents. They should all be merged into one PDF file. In total, there must only be two attachments sent to hrd.uganda@brac.net.

Deadline: 31st December 2015