Research & Insights Director – Jobtech Alliance

About

Prosper Global seeks a full-time national Research & Insights Director for the Jobtech Alliance, based in Kenya or Nigeria. The role leads research, insight generation and learning strategy, including for the DAWN project, and coordinates dissemination and advocacy to turn findings into action across the African jobtech ecosystem. It requires 10+ years of relevant experience, quantitative and qualitative research expertise, and the right to work in the country of base. Salary: National Terms of service: Full-Time, National Duty station: Kenya or Nigeria

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on Jobvite.

Responsibilities

• Craft and continuously refine our research and insights strategy (updated at least quarterly), identifying the different research and insight use cases and the appropriate methodologies, formats, dissemination channels and advocacy required to translate research outputs to action.
• Shape the overarching learning-for-action plan of the Jobtech Alliance.
• Identify emerging themes coming out of our work, as well as upon the wider jobtech horizon, which require further research.
• Lead the research and learning plan and priorities for DAWN, including the Learning Pilot’s key questions: how to define and measure dignified and fulfilling work, which inclusion interventions improve outcomes for disadvantaged users, and which sectors, platform models and pathways deliver the stro
• Work with venture building teams and startups to identify the questions each innovation sprint should answer, and turn the findings into lessons for the startup and the wider sector.
• Advise the team on new issues they should be addressing in their work, based on reading emerging research in the jobtech space.
• Lead research on varying themes with acceleration start-up partners, from product design, to business model strategy, user-level impact, and/or operations.
• Oversee the analysis, synthesis, and production of research and learning outputs as a primary author for various forms of audiences and channels, including long-form reports, blogs, and other communication mediums for knowledge products.
• Lead the evidence, analysis and recommendations for the Year 1 Learning Pilot evaluation, which informs the Mastercard Foundation’s decisions on refinement and scale-up.
• Manage researchers, consultants and primary data collectors, where required, as part of the research output production process.
• Deliver DAWN’s portfolio of research and learning products including studies that centre the voices of disadvantaged young women, refugees and displaced people and persons with disabilities in Nigeria, and ensure all data collection with these participants is ethical, inclusive and consistent with s
• Work with the Ecosystem and Communications teams to decide who needs to see each piece of research, what we want them to do with it, and how best to reach them.
• Plan and deliver content plan for the Jobtech Alliance’s flagship Africa Jobtech learning convening, bringing together platforms, skilling providers, financial institutions, policymakers and funders.
• Lead advocacy efforts to feed research findings into the decision-making process of ecosystem actors, where identified in the strategy.
• Oversee our quarterly research and content calendar.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience, including working in or with technology startups.
• Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Demonstrated ability to develop tailored research and learning strategies covering use cases, formats and dissemination plans.
• Demonstrated familiarity with both business strategies and decisions, as well as user-level impact.
• Experience conducting research with young people, ideally with young women, refugees and displaced people or persons with disabilities, applying ethical research, safeguarding and data protection standards.
• Experience producing research and learning for institutional donors and contributing to donor reporting.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with a keen ability to synthesize and present complex data in a simple, compelling, meaningful way.
• Must be a strong self-starter.
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner while balancing several assignments with inputs from multiple team members.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, social science, international development, or a related field.
• Familiarity with Nigeria’s youth employment, labour market or platform economy context is an advantage.
• Candidates must have the right to work in the country in which they are based.