Overview
The Research and Knowledge Management Specialist will design, lead, commission, and conduct research and evaluations relevant to Country Strategic Objectives. The role also involves leading knowledge management and learning processes to ensure efficiency in knowledge capture, sharing, learning, and sustainability of institutional memory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, lead, commission and conduct research, evaluations and studies relevant to Country Strategic Objectives.
- Lead and coordinate Knowledge management and learning processes and systems.
- Develop research and evaluation Terms of References.
- Design, conduct and commission single strategic studies.
- Design, conduct and commission meta-analysis and evidence reviews.
- Design and conduct Influencing Impact Studies.
- Lead, project manage and monitor research and evaluation studies.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
- Conduct meta-analysis using statistical methods.
- Conduct systematic evidence reviews.
- Collate secondary data and conduct descriptive analysis.
- Participate in and develop internal and external Research and or Knowledge Management Networks and Communities of Practice.
- Write new proposals.
- Produce research, evaluation and evidence synthesis reports, and submit journal articles.
- Produce learning products such as fact sheets, evidence to action briefs, policy briefs, policy position papers.
- Stay abreast of child-participatory/led, innovative, robust, credible and right-fit research methods.
- Champion robust use of evidence and a learning culture.
- Monitor Country Office’s Research, Evidence and Learning Agendas and learning agenda implementation plans.
- Support technical advisors and project teams to use standardised indicators and measures.
- Coach, mentor and support REALM Unit colleagues in developing their Knowledge Management skills.
- Deliver Knowledge Management remote or face-to-face training.
- Act as a KLM focal point person for all KLM activities in the Country Office.
- Develop KLM system and processes.
- Identify current SCI-AFG knowledge sharing, strategies and tools.
- Maintain, update and upload learning products on SCI CO, Regional and Global Knowledge Management and Learning Repositories.
- Facilitate cross department learning and transfer of best practices.
- Lead and support knowledge sharing and learning events.
- Track user feedback on KLM products.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in designing and managing evaluation of programs.
- Experience in data collection, data management, and analysis.
- Demonstrated proficiency in statistical analysis using STATA or other statistical software.
- Familiarity with methods for and issues involved with involving children in research.
- Demonstrated ability to use MS-Office (Excel).
- Demonstrated ability to use qualitative software.
- Demonstrated report writing skills.
- Willing and able to travel time to Afghanistan to support field teams as security permits.
- Strong thematic background knowledge in at least one of Save the Children’s breakthrough areas: Survive, Learn and Be Protected; and themes (health and nutrition; child education; child protection; child poverty and climate change; and/or child rights governance).
- Experience working for an international humanitarian or development agency (Desirable).
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in Afghanistan (Desirable).
- Experience and knowledge of Save the Children’s structure, mandate and child focus (Desirable).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or relevant field or equivalent experience.
- Master’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or relevant field or equivalent experience (Desirable).
