Jobs in Uganda - Research Associate job at BondRich Advisory Group Ltd

BondRich Advisory Group Ltd

Research Associate job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2021 - 2022

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 24 December 2021

Hiring Organization: BondRich Advisory Group Ltd

Job Details:

Research Associate
Reports to: Director

Summary
Reporting to the Director, the Research Associate will be responsible for conducting research to support project activities, collaborate with inter disciplinary teams to make new discoveries and solve emerging problems.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be responsible for performing the following duties:
• Conduct research activities under general direction and terms of the research project
• Coordinate with other business unit associates to ensure efficient and timely delivery of high quality projects
• Conduct literature review, collect project data from key stakeholders using relevant tools, compile, code and enter into the database for processing.
• Analyze the collected data and generate reports, tablets, charts, graphs, interpret and present reports to users for decision making
• Work with business development team to generate technical proposals, reports, conduct trainings in compliance with project guidelines and research protocols.
• Identify sources of funding for clients’ projects, prepare technical documents to funding bodies and follow up with key partners to ensure funds are secured.
• Participate in business unit meetings, prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders.
• Respond to internal and external queries about research interventions
• Generate relevant reports, articles, concept papers and facilitate with publication in high quality journals.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
• A Master’s degree preferably in Economics Background, Education, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field.
• A Bachelor’s degree in the above fields with significant experience may be considered.
• Knowledge of statistical packages including SPSS, STATA and related is essential
• Ability to creatively think and solve complex technical problems
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex statistical quantitative data
• Experience in psychometrics assessments is an added advantage
• Experience in writing and successfully publishing research projects in key journals is a plus.