Education and Research Officer

POSITION OBJECTIVE (overall purpose of position)

Conduct creative research for Ubongo’s content and products and support outreach activities by building relationships with key stakeholders for knowledge acquisition and researching activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

Main Activities

Pre-research of Ubongo’s content

Organizing stakeholders roundtable discussions on selected topics
Conducting pre-research and co-creation activities with children and stakeholders in the camp
Analysis and report writing and/or presentations of user test results to the wider Ubongo team.

Conducting User Research in the camp

Working with teams to ensure continuous and creative user testing processes for all content and products
Developing and/or reviewing materials for testing
Arrange user research and focus groups with children and stakeholders in Kakuma camp
Conduct user research of our content at all stages of production (storylines, script, animatic, animation, post-production)
Report writing and/or presentations of user test results to the wider Ubongo team

Outreach

Mapping out key stakeholders (education implementers and or policymakers, caregivers, community centers, teachers, etc) that Ubongo can work with during the project
Building and maintaining Ubongo’s relationship with partners/organizations within the camp

Company Wide Responsibilities

Exemplify Ubongoers principles and norms

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED (Minimum knowledge, skills and behaviors to perform the job)

Physical

N/A

Educational

Bachelor’s degree in Education or research

Experience

Minimum of 3 years experience working with children directly
Experience working in a refugee camp is a MUST (Kakuma Refugee camp is desirable)
Experience in relationship building with partners
Experience in education/educational research is highly desirable
Fluent in English, basic knowledge of languages spoken in the camp (Juba -Arabic) is a major advantage

Skills

Strong research and analytical skills
Strong communication and outreach skills
Have a can-do attitude and readiness to learn on the job
Self-motivated and possess a high level of responsibility to complete tasks in a timely manner
Ability to work remotely
Experience using Asana, Slack and Google Drive

Apply via :

go.bamboohr.com