Senior Manager, Mixed Methods

What you will do
Team Leadership & Management

Line manage the TEGA specialist ensuring their work across the TEGA portfolio and broader insights work is allocated effectively and supported as necessary
Provide technical research, monitoring and evaluation support to country-based evidence teams as required, including dotted line management of the TEGA research leads in country
Sit within the Senior Evidence & Insights Team, inputting into the strategic planning of the function as a whole as well as day-to-day management of resources

TEGA Research

Act as the global Evidence & Insights lead for TEGA, working closely with colleagues in the TEGA project team to ensure it is constantly learning and improving as a methodology and identifying larger development or innovation opportunities as appropriate
Support the design and delivery of research and monitoring projects for Girl Effect, both in country and centrally, ensuring it is used regularly, appropriately and optimally 
Manage all our client work for TEGA, ensuring the outputs are delivered to the highest quality and directly to the clients’ brief. Clients to date have included major NGOs like Oxfam, CRS, DFID, Grand Challenges and Vodafone Foundation
In collaboration with Partnerships team support the development and writing of bids and proposals to clients and donors
Lead your team in overseeing the research training and development of the TEGAs themselves, ensuring it is designed and delivered to the highest quality

Wider research & insights

Support the development and implementation using TEGA for learning and adaptation our to ensure we routinely understand how our audience is responding to our work, and feeding those learnings back into our programme design
Develop a toolkit of methods to best meet common girl insight and monitoring needs of teams across Girl Effect with a focus on our creative and brand strategy teams and working closely with gender and safeguarding specialists and in-country evidence and insights teams
Build capacity in girl centred research, monitoring and evaluation skills across Girl Effect’s evidence and insights teams globally
Oversight of ongoing youth participatory evolutions being led by the TEGA specialist
Disseminate Girl Effect’s learning and results internally and externally 
Innovate and drive improvements in our methodological approaches, ensuring that our methods adhere to ‘lean research’ principles, are girl-centred and, where relevant, girl-led
Ensure that research outputs are accessible and readily understandable, and promote research uptake for strategy development and external communications
Represent Girl Effect at external conferences and events, through presentations and other knowledge sharing activities as required

Who you are
Essential

Demonstrable experience in using innovative participatory research methods, especially with young people and preferably within one or more of the media, communication, international development or social change sectors
Advanced qualitative research design and analysis skills including hands-on experience of applied research in emerging markets or developing contexts
Demonstrated skills in producing high quality, innovative and engaging research reports, presentations and briefings for diverse audiences – technical and non-technical
Experience of developing research strategies with a variety of partners and and programmes of research to reflect organisational priorities. 
Strong project management skills, including developing clear internal communications systems and work plans, templates and reporting frameworks
Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity about the contexts within which Girl Effect operates
Experience coordinating workstreams across multiple geographies and ability to work effectively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds
Excellent written and spoken English, with an ability to cut through complexity and communicate effectively to multi-disciplinary audiences
Creative and inquisitive mindset with strong communication and organisational skills
Experience of line management, objective setting and capacity and supporting building other researchers 
An understanding of safeguarding and research with young people or vulnerable groups. 
Commitment to realising the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect
Experienced managing and mentoring a high functioning research-focused team

Desirable

Experience working with marginalised groups and communities, particularly youth
Experience in training and mentoring others in research methods, data analysis and reporting
Experience in designing and conducting research and evaluation for digital programming
Background in monitoring and evaluation, particularly around programmes that relate to women and girls is highly desirable
Masters or postgraduate degree in the social sciences

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