Research Officer, TLTN

Job Description

Title: Research Officer, TLTN

Company Name: Oxfam

Vacancy: 5

Age: At least 22 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 22 years

Organization Background

• iDE (International Development Enterprises) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending poverty. With over 40 years of experience, iDE is a pioneer in market-based development. Our work within agriculture, sanitation, climate change resilience, and gender equality stands out because we don’t simply provide handouts. Instead, iDE believes in powering small-scale entrepreneurs and building robust market ecosystems that lay the groundwork for low-income and marginalized people to prosper on their terms. iDE has almost 1,300 global staff and offices in 12 countries across Africa, Asia, and Central America.

• iDE established its first country program in Bangladesh in 1983. Today, it’s the longest-standing NGO specializing in market systems in Bangladesh. Our diverse portfolio spans across agricultural markets, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); renewable energy, and climate-smart technologies.

Project Background

• The Transforming Lives Through Nutrition (TLTN) project aims to enhance the health and food systems' responses to malnutrition and food insecurity crises. The project supports government partners in strengthening the capacity of local health and food systems by delivering evidence-based, life-saving nutrition interventions to pregnant women and children under the age of five, with a focus on capturing the critical 1,000-day window of opportunity. Implemented across 12 African and Asian countries over five years, the project targets approximately 2.6 million pregnant women and 12 million children. In Bangladesh, TLTN operates through a partnership between Helen Keller International, Vitamin Angels, and iDE. The initiative focuses on improving maternal and child health through the delivery of proven nutrition interventions and by strengthening health and food systems at scale, with women and children at the center of these efforts.

About the position

• iDE Bangladesh invites applications from competent, motivated, and research-oriented professionals who are passionate about building a career in applied research, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and development programming. Candidates should have 3-5 years of relevant experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, learning, knowledge management, or field-based development programs, preferably with exposure to nutrition, WASH, agriculture, market systems, livelihoods, gender, climate resilience, or public health.

• The selected candidates will work at the intersection of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming under the Transforming Lives Through Nutrition (TLTN) project. They will gain hands-on experience in applied research, field assessments, household surveys, qualitative inquiry, data quality assurance, monitoring and learning, evidence generation, and knowledge dissemination. The role will also support practical learning around nutrition entrepreneurship, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, WASH, market systems, gender and inclusion, and systems strengthening.

• This position is designed to develop a pipeline of skilled research professionals who can contribute to evidence-based program implementation, generate practical insights and innovations for continuous improvement, and support adaptive decision-making. The Research Officers will help produce high-quality evidence, learning products, and actionable recommendations to improve program effectiveness, strengthen participant outcomes, and contribute to broader learning and policy dialogue around nutrition-sensitive development.

• Reporting Line: Project Manager, Director of Programs

• Contract Duration: Up to June 2027, there is a possibility of extension

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