BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. We use the power of media and communication to help reduce poverty and support people in understanding their rights.

Our aim is to inform, connect and empower people around the world. We work in partnership with broadcasters, governments, non-governmental organisations and donors to share reliable, timely and useful information. We use the power of media and communication to help reduce poverty and support people in understanding their rights. Our aim is to inform, connect and empower people around the world.

BBC Media Action uses various forms of media and communications to tackle poverty and contribute to long-term change in some of the world’s poorest places. To achieve this, we partner with civil society, local media and governments to:

Produce creative programmes in multi-media formats which inform and engage audiences and

Strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure.

Our work in Nepal focuses on governance, resilience and humanitarian preparedness and response with strong gender commitments and focus. BBC Media Action Nepal Office is about to start a research and communications project funded by World Food Programme (WFP) to support improved nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) outcomes in schools and communities in 10 different districts. The work will complement and reinforce WFP’s ongoing Nepal School Meals Programme (NSMP) particularly feeding into its strategies to increase knowledge and uptake of healthier WASH and nutrition practices.

Research Officer

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Basic Job Information

Job Category:	Research and Development
Job Level:	mid
No. of Vacancy/s:	[ 0 ]
Job Location:	0
Offered Salary:	None
Apply Before(Deadline):	Dec. 02, 2011 00:00 (6 years, 7 months ago)

Job Specification

Education Level:	Master
Experience Required:	Not Required

Other Specification

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Required:

Strong experience in qualitative and quantitative market/social research.
Experience using qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
Strong IT skills, including Excel and PowerPoint, and experience with data analysis software packages such as SPSS or Atlas.
Strong written and spoken English and Nepali.
Strong report writing and presentation skills, communicating complex technical ideas using non-technical language to a wide range of audiences from journalists, production staff and development practitioners.
Ability to plan and conduct work with minimal supervision.
Track record of delivering research findings to deadline.

Desirable, but not required:

Familiarity with commissioning and/or conducting research in developing countries.
Familiarity with media communications research approaches and methodologies (advertising and/or brands and/or marketing).
Experience of and/or interest in research on international and development issues.
Experience of working with media professionals in production-oriented teams.

RELEVANT COMPETENCIES:

Strategic Thinking – Can identify a vision along with the plans that need to be implemented to meet the end goal. Evaluates situations, decisions, issues 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.
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.

Job Description

Overall purpose of Job

We are looking for two talented and experienced Research Officers in order to help the WST in Nepal in its research and development activities.

Duties:

Analysis and Reporting- Possess good understanding of management’s reporting requirements in terms of providing analysis and recommendation for quick understating and decision making. This includes designing ways of reporting figures in an effective and strategic way. Also, work with other research team members to compile data and undertake other activities as required.•Proposing Research- With Research Manager liaise with internal clients to determine audience research needs. Be involved in formulating research design, and using interactive data to inform business development/new opportunities.
Designing Research Methodology - Working with other research team members to design and draft research instruments, particularly those used for quantitative work and monitoring and evaluation. Input and help draft research design – sampling, recruitment and logistics.
Liaison with Agencies conducting fieldwork – Supporting the pretesting/piloting of research instruments, as needed. Monitoring and controlling the quality of fieldwork/data collection, project timeliness and budgets for the research projects being handled.
Conducting fieldwork – Moderating focus groups and conducting depth interviews when necessary. Continually looking at ways to improve data collection both feeding into research design, moderation and analysis of data.
Presenting Findings - With the Research Manager and other Research Officers to help to disseminate the analysis of key findings and the strategic recommendations.
Personal Development - Review the latest trends and developments in research methodologies related to behavior change, impact assessment and communications research, and evaluating the same for adoption in the Trust’s Research and Learning work.
Training - Participate in Research and Learning workshops, and representing the Trust in other knowledge sharing workshops related to our project activities and project partners. Train and share knowledge with the research assistant where appropriate.