Senior Researcher and Pir Curator at

4 weeks ago


Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Workforce Africa Full time
Workforce Africa is a HR solutions provider dedicated in the provision of Human Resource Management services across Africa. Our MISSION is to deliver Business Growth by leveraging on Talent.

ROLE SUMMARY
Responsible for Public Interest Research & Insights content.

He/She answers to the head of the PI & Insights unit, who is responsible for all research strategies in the organization.


Editorial/Insight generation:
You will work with the organization's leadership to curate, edit and produce all PI research content.
Contribute towards report write-ups and structure, and present findings through both visual graphics and text formats.
Out of the box thinking that enables generation of new insights

Strategic:
Setting the course for the public interest research unit in collaboration with our partners and funders.

External

Independently or with the unit lead, the PI lead will be a public face and advocate for the company making public appearances and contributing to media policy.

He or she will often be required to represent the company in the media, with government bodies and NGOs, regulatory bodies and the public, as well as speaking at conferences.

Internal team and project management

Training and supervising associate researchers, intel network and context analysts Working closely with associate researchers to develop ideas & facilitate the smooth flow of work
Collaborate with the culture team and media team and utilize their content for PI work,and ad hoc research work

Requirements
Experience

Founder of a successful startup or platform that touches on public interest matters (values and beliefs, relationships, social media impact, socialization, generational tensions, etc)
Previous experience analyzing trends/history
Experience with identifying business problems and creating business solutions

Preferred experience

Experience with proposal writing
Experience pitching projects to clients (Having worked with or for targeted clients is a plus)
Market sizing experience is a plus

Qualifications/skills

Creative person who can come up with innovative research ideas
Avid reader/learner with good knowledge about current issues
The ability to tell a story with data
Ability to work under pressure, and within tight deadlines: always delivers work on time
Should be comfortable speaking on TV/radio
Confident and professional communication manner
Proactive and independent
Excellent writing/editing skills
Good project management skills from start to end of a project
Ability to manage a team
Tireless commitment to excellence and sweating the details.
Experience in economics or in another social-science or research-oriented field, journalism, management consulting or start-up experience.

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