BBC Media Action Nepal is seeking to recruit a Research Officer.

• Department:  BBC Media Action – Research and Learning 
• Reports To:  Research Manager
• Grade: 6 
• Based: Kathmandu office with frequent travel
• Duration: Up to April 2018

Main Duties:

• Be involved in formulating research design, preparing and circulating RFPs/research brief (where appropriate), evaluating proposals, finalizing and commissioning the research/organizing.
• To analyses and synthesize audience research results, applications and innovations with a view to identifying lessons learned and defining best practice.
• Working with other research team members to design and draft research instruments for quantitative as qualitative work (pretesting/ piloting/ formative, evaluation), support on logistic, project timeliness and budgets for the research projects being handled.
• Collect data/ fieldwork/ moderating focus group discussion, monitoring and controlling the quality of fieldwork/data collection, analysis and presenting them into standard format for further decision making.
• Analyze SPSS dataset as required and requested to support project planning and development.
• With the Research Manager and other Research Officers to help to disseminate the analysis of key findings and the strategic recommendations.
• Support reporting requirements in terms of providing analysis and recommendation for quick understating and decision making.
• Other research and learning task as per requirement.

 Essential Skills and Experience:

• 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.
• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken Nepali and English.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
•  Ability to plan and conduct work with minimal supervision.
• Track record of delivering research findings to deadline.

TO APPLY:
The deadline to apply for the above position is 24:00 hrs, June 11th, 2017. You can download this Application Form and send it along with updated resume to [email protected]