ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience as a manager and strong leadership and budgeting skills.
• At least 4 years experience working in the research field.
• Experience managing, mentoring and training research staff. 
• Experience of working at every stage of the research process from research design through to evaluation of project implementation and delivery.
• Strong experience of quantitative and qualitative research techniques and knowledge of their application for media projects.
• Previous experience of managing fieldwork, including managing research agencies, and adapting methods to challenging and constrained conditions.
• Experience of working in challenging and difficult environments
• Previous experience of conducting cross-cultural research and/or research with diverse audiences.
• Strong presentation skills and track record of presentations to audiences at grassroots to senior levels.
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills: ability to conduct business at all levels from grassroots to the highest levels of governments and media.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organizing time effectively within a range of often conflicting deadlines. 
• The ability to think strategically and analytically.
• The interpersonal skills to establish confident and effective working relationships with BBC staff at a variety of levels, and with external agencies.
• Excellent spoken and written English and Nepali.

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working closely with television, radio, mobile, film and community media production teams with a view to applying research findings to the production of media outputs and broadcast strategy.
• Research experience of media projects (television, radio, film and community media) in a variety of media environments.
• SPSS data analysis skills (including multivariate and segmentation techniques) would be an asset.
• Formal training in or strong knowledge of social sciences (e.g. psychology, sociology and anthropology).

COMPTENCIES

• Managing relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people and work co-operatively with others as part of a team.
• Leadership - able to create a vision and inspire others 
• Strategic Thinking – can identify a vision along with the plans that need to be implemented to meet the end goal. Evaluates situations, decisions, issues, etc. in the short, medium and longer-term
• Analytical Thinking – able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able to identify causal relationships, and construct frameworks, for problem-solving and/or development.
• Decision Making – is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of the decision made.
• Imagination / Creative Thinking – is able to transform creative ideas/impulses into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
• Planning and Organisation – is able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements.
• Resilience – can maintain personal effectiveness by managing own emotions in the face of pressure, set backs or when dealing with provocative situations. Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
• Influencing and Persuading – ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
• Communication – the ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.