TITLE : RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
SUMMARY OF ROLE: Under the supervision of Policy Director, the R&D Manager will assist the Policy Director and/or policy-related projects in providing best evidence, research, and information necessary towards the provision of evidence-based policy.
1. Coordinating research and build organisational capacity on research
β Coordinating and assisting research activities in CISDI across projects
β Coordinating and maintaining effective relationships with researchers and potential Principal Investigators
β Assisting and controlling quality of all research projects across divisions, including but not limited to research designs, methods, data management strategies, data analysis, and publication writing
β Organizing knowledge and skills sharing to increase organizational research capacity
β’ Orchestrated and high-quality research projects and products
β’ Increased organizational capacity on research
2. Creating knowledge and bridging knowledge gap towards evidence-informed policy making
β Searching for new evidence or creating new knowledge that contributes to the achievement of the organization/national priorities through primary or secondary data collection
β’ High-quality and of high relevance research products
3. Translating learning into new knowledge and research products
β Assist the Policy Director together with the Policy department to identify and develop research priorities and strategies
β Assist the Policy department to undertake informed and effective analysis necessary to produce policy relevant materials
β Translating learning obtained from projects into new knowledge and research products, including the dissemination process
β’ Research priorities and strategies
β’ high quality and well-packaged research products
β Managing human resources, budget, projects under R&D, including ensuring projects are executed successfully and completed within time frames to meet research objectives
β R&D divisionβs targets are achieved
β Other work/support for other projects/divisions deemed necessary by supervisor
Sufficient support for other divisions/projects
Relevant qualifications, skills and experience:
Minimum Qualifications
β Masterβs in public health or health economics or other relevant fields
β A minimum of five years professional experience in public health research or other relevant topics or the equivalent combination of education and experience
β Experience in managing research grants and programs or other similar international organization funds/programs
β Hands-on experiences in:
o Implementation research and or impact evaluation will be beneficial
o Creating detailed and high quality work of research protocols
o Supervising research projects
β advanced knowledge and skills of programming and statistical analysis techniques and high level of proficiency with statistic software (e.g STATA, etc)
β demonstrates good knowledge and skills of various research methods is a plus
β Experience in using and managing large-scale quantitative survey data
Competencies
β’ Fluency in spoken and written Indonesian and English
β’ Strong academic/formal writing skills;
β’ Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously as well as in team
β’ Proven diplomacy skills and ability to articulate clearly, with impact and respect
β’ Great verbal communication, presentation and networking skills
β’ Outstanding working quality and organization;
β’ Strong analytical skills;
β’ Ability to multitask and to be adaptable to change;
β’ Passionate and have a sufficient knowledge on health situation in Indonesia;
β’ Strong interpersonal skills, including building effective relationships, positive interaction and effective problem solving;
β’ Great Initiatives and eagerness to learn new knowledge.