Junior Research Officer (Quantitative)

Junior Research Officer

Position: Junior Research Officer

Date: Dec 1 2022 or earlier

Reports to: Research Manager, Country Director

Location: Niamey, Niger (preferred) or fully remote with field travel depending on needs

Summary: The GeoAnalytics Center (GeoA) is a culturally sensitive NGO that strives to strengthen social cohesion and support humanitarian interventions through technological solutions. Based in Niger, GeoA has operated across the Sahel since 2018. We are looking for a junior research and business development officer to reinforce our Research team. The Junior Officer will support research processes with diverse tasks including data cleaning, analysis, and report drafting. Additionally, he/she will contribute to business development by identifying new project opportunities and drafting technical proposals. The workload amounts to a full-time position, pending negotiation and availability of the candidate.

Key Functions

• Responsibility for implementing research for various projects across the Sahel and the broader region of West Africa.
• Be the primary writer of quantitative and qualitative research outputs.
• Clean and analyse quantitative and qualitative data for research and M&E purposes.
• Responsibility for proposal writing and application to international organizations and donors in the humanitarian and development sector.
• Maintain relationships with partners in our target countries and promote GeoA as a key organization to deliver technology-based interventions
• Identify new funding opportunities to expand GeoA’s project funding in Niger, the Central Sahel and broader West Africa

Other Tasks

• Participate in internal meetings and external meetings with partners and donors.
• Prepare materials for organisation outreach.
• Promotes GeoA’s mission and values, including locally based solutions, cultural diversity, gender equality, and carbon neutral strategy.
• Maintains at all times a high standard of professionalism, efficiency, personal communication, discretion, and independent judgment.
• Carries out other duties of a temporary character.

Key Competencies

• MA degree in social sciences, military studies, earth sciences, or geography.
• Training on quantitative and qualitative research methods within the studies.
• 1+ year(s) in the humanitarian and/or development sector.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Fluency in English and working knowledge of French.
• Competency in R is a very strong advantage.
• Competency in other programming languages is an advantage.
• Context knowledge of humanitarian and development programming in the Sahel is an advantage.

About us

GeoAnalytics Center (GeoA) is an organization based in Niger. Our goal is to technologically reinforce programming related to sector reform, countering violent extremism, gender issues, and governance. We are convinced that, when adapted to local realities and needs, tech can be a critical facilitating tool for learning, empowering, communicating, collecting, and organizing data, and enhancing productivity and effectiveness. We base our approach on three overarching ideas:

• Technology is not a silver bullet. However, properly designed technological solutions may reinforce existing initiatives by streamlining processes and increasing efficiency.
• Technology is only as good as the people behind it. GeoA ensures its approaches are well integrated within existing organizations and provides training and long-term mentoring to ensure sustainability.
• Geox’s solutions are locally adapted and are always based on the recipients’ capacity to understand and effectively apply technologically-based solutions.

We are proud of our strategic partnerships with the PeaceTech Lab, an independent nonprofit organization working to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. The PeaceTech Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

www.geoacenter.com