Research Officer

Job Description

Title: Research Officer

Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 24 years

Job Location: Dhaka (Gulshan)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2026-07-27

Application Deadline: 2026-08-10

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Psychology, Clinical Psychology, or a related behavioral science field; or a Medical Graduate (MBBS) with complete internship training, including standard clinical training rotation within a psychiatry placement and post-graduate training in Psychiatry.

• Age At least 24 years

• Demonstrated experience or training in clinical documentation, case note management, and mental health research.

• Prior experience working directly with community-based mental health programs, psychosocial task-shifting initiatives is an asset.

• Understanding of psychological history-taking, symptom identification, and psychological case formulation.

• Contextual fluency in Bengali, with skills to flag regional metaphors and terminology used to describe variations in mental state.

• Ability to generate structured, analytical qualitative reports and clinical documentation summaries in English.

• Familiarity with qualitative analysis techniques or structural coding principles is highly valued.

mPower is a pioneer and global leader in “Development Intelligence”, business intelligence for the social development in government and non-government sectors. If you are passionate about changing the world and improving the lives of millions of poor and disadvantaged people of the world combining both creativity & cutting-edge technology, apply for our Research Officer vacancy.
Duty Station: Head Office in Gulshan, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs
Job Description:

As a Research Officer at mPower, you will bridge the gap between community mental health counseling encounters and structured framework analysis. Utilizing your clinical or psychological background, and the on-job training provided, you will analyze session notes and counseling transcripts to isolate structural stressors, environmental determinants, and localized expressions of distress. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional who wants to shape culturally grounded, ethically sound community mental health tools without needing a technical computer science background.
Job Responsibilities:

• Systematically review, format, and de-identify longitudinal counseling transcripts collected from community screening sites.

• Lead isolation of explicit symptoms, social determinants, expression of distress, and map relations between them.

• Triangulate clinical session inferences with data gathered from community Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and expert anthropological workshops.

• Format extracted behavioral and structural nodes to help build the project's Hierarchical Causal Knowledge Graph.

• Assist in regular bias audits to ensure the documented data paths do not oversimplify client distress or miss crucial psychiatric referral flags.

• Coordinate with lived-experience advocacy networks to validate that terms are mapped in a non-stigmatizing, culturally respectful manner.

• Competitive salary package.

• Income tax paid by the company.

• Lunch provided by the company.