Senior Research Fellow - Research

Overview

Job Title: Senior Research Fellow

Function: Research

Location: Mohali

Reports to Position: Programme Coordinator

Band: Fixed Term

Reportees to Position: None

Job Description

Job Purpose

ISB serves as the knowledge and implementation partner for the state. This initiative would be transformative to engage educated, experienced, and dynamic young individuals to work closely with the state government at District level to promote transparency, accountability, and efficiency in public office. The programme seeks to foster growth and development in the state by supporting the District Magistrate & Collectors in implementation of various development schemes and addressing issues at the district level.

The Senior Research Fellow would coordinate with districts and compile district-wise progress reports for different initiatives and schemes at the state level and also compile the grievances raised in the CM Connect helpline for different districts under various sectors/domains like education, women’s safety, health and sanitation, higher education, e-governance etc. In this role, the Senior District Research Fellow would provide convergence between various state government stakeholders and departments within the state administration to re-engineer processes and solve implementation challenges at district level.

Job Outline

• The Senior Research Fellow will be a part of the state project that will work in close conjunction with the fellows at district level.
• The incumbent will work closely with the district fellows in field locations who will undertake data capture and research for identified research needs to support the fellowship project
• She/He will work in building research questions, b) enable the sharing of and understanding of the research questions amongst the fellows  c) work with the fellows during the course of the research to ensure progress and outputs as planned for, d) take data at regular and continuous intervals from the field locations and e) will work with the data and undertake the required analysis to convert into knowledge products and inputs that will support state practitioners and policy enablers as support for the district administration.  
• She/He will also analyze data for inputs to the Data Scientist who will undertake further advanced analytics of the data. 
• She/He will work closely with the KMCO team to ensure that the research output is carried forward with all the key & vital information and inputs in communication, outreach and in knowledge products.
• She/He will undertake writing out the knowledge products (a first draft for KMCO team to build on) based on the research and the associated analytics.

Job Specifications

Knowledge / Education:

• Postgraduate/ Graduate in any field

Specific Skills:

• Experience in working with data sets for data analysis and statistical programming.
• Working knowledge with STATA/R/Python will be required.
• Experience in research writing will be good to have.
• Experience in project management of any kind and working with teams will be good to have as well.  

Desirable Experience:

• Min 5 years

How to Apply?

Send your application through this link here: https://form.jotform.com/251261045854454
Upload your updated CV and a cover letter (no more than 500 words) discussing your motivation and State of Purpose in no more than 500 words.

Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. You will be contacted only in case you are shortlisted for an interview.