Job Description

Title: Research and Impact Coordinator - Bangladesh

Company Name: Translators without Borders (TWB)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar, Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in a relevant subject or extensive proven and published practical experience.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Research and Impact Coordinator is responsible for leading the research team of 2 to 3 staff ensuring that results-based planning is integrated into program design and that research is used to inform and improve the provision of language services throughout the program. The Research and Impact Coordinator will ensure monitoring systems are in place and effectively used. The Research and Impact Coordinator will seek opportunities to ensure impact measurement, documentation, data collection and analyses and dissemination of lessons learnt with the intention of improving communication practices within humanitarian and development organizations across our responses and within CLEAR Global.
∎ The Research and Impact Coordinator will report to the Bangladesh Country / Program Director and will work in close partnership with the Data Solutions Manager and the Global Researcher in CLEAR Global's Research, Advocacy and Data (RAD) team.
∎ The role will evolve during the course of the initial deployment as projects and activities develop so flexibility and the willingness to adapt to constantly changing circumstances especially within the Rohingya camps and nationwide is important
∎ Design and coordinate formative qualitative and quantitative research projects related to language and communication in humanitarian crises in line with CLEAR Global's research standards.
∎ Design and coordinate comprehension research to field-test the effectiveness of various written, audio, and video communication products.
∎ Coordinate data collection, data management, and data processing ensuring that all data is handled confidentially and along data protection guidelines
∎ Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, leading and documenting a collegial rolling review of emerging findings and discussion of the implications both for humanitarian policy and practice, for the ongoing implementation of the research, and for CLEAR Global's advocacy purposes.
∎ Develop together with the global Research, Advocacy and Data (RAD) team an innovative research agenda for CLEAR Global's future research in the response in Cox's Bazar and nationwide.
∎ Manage assigned research staff, data collectors, and consultants as needed
∎ Development and implementation of CLEAR Global's research standards
∎ Provide support to the global Research, Advocacy and Data (RAD) team to further develop qualitative research methods and processes, including research design, delivery, analysis and reporting for qualitative projects and its implementation
∎ Provide support to the Program team to commission high quality pilot and implementation and process evaluations. This will include writing and assessing proposals, providing ongoing support to internal and external researchers and quality assuring protocols and reports.
∎ Setting direction for and undertaking quality assurance of qualitative and mixed methods projects.
∎ Develop innovative tools and processes for tracking the outputs of various language-related activities, including, but not limited to: translations of documents and messages, advocacy, training, and capacity building of interpreters.
∎ Liaise with a wide-range of organizations to discover and gather information that relates to the provision and effectiveness of language and communication support.
∎ Liaise with consortium partners to produce concise narratives that capture progress against indicators and provide both management and donors with accurate and user-friendly information.
∎ Seek out reports, research, and programs from various actors across the response to analyze trends in language and communication practices.
∎ Liaise with consortium partners to design and implement mid-term and end-term evaluations of the project, based on new perspectives on the wants and needs of the affected people.
∎ Develop innovative methods to measure the impact on affected communities when they have access to communication in the appropriate format and language.
∎ Ensure efficient systems are in place for program staff to collect and compile relevant and concise information for routine donor reporting requirements and occasional special reports as required.
∎ Write CLEAR Global's contribution to the weekly CwC sector updates and other required reports for national programs.
∎ Input into CLEAR Global's overall crisis response reporting to the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
∎ Provide regular internal updates on research advances and preliminary results.
∎ Produce research reports for external publication.
∎ Produce evidence-based recommendations and guidelines related to communication and language to support other humanitarian agencies.
∎ Produce and present findings in presentation format to various humanitarian agencies and donors.
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∎ Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 5+ years of program and/or research experience in humanitarian contexts
∎ Demonstrated experience initiating and implementing innovative learning, evidence gathering and/or impact measuring at field level,
∎ Experience designing, coordinating, and implementing field-based research projects utilizing quantitative and qualitative methodologies
∎ Ability to communicate scientific data to communities, program staff, and partners in a simple and clear manner
∎ Experience designing and conducting surveys using Kobo DataCollect
∎ Ability to analyze and graphically represent quantitative data
∎ Verbal and written fluency in English
∎ Demonstrated experience of monitoring or evaluating CwC work at field level, a plus
∎ Experience and competency working with ARCgis, Tableau, NVivo, or other specialized software a plus
∎ Verbal or written fluency in Bengali, Chittagong, Rohingya, and/or Burmese, a plus
∎ Experience working in Bangladesh and/or Myanmar, a plus

Salary:
∎ 4,500-5,000 USD/month

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 7 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 19 Feb 2022
∎ Translators without Borders (TWB)
∎ Business : Translators without Borders (TWB) is a non-profit organization offering language and translation support for humanitarian and development agencies, and other non-profit organizations on a global scale.

Category: Research/Consultancy

Source: bdjobs.com

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