Ethiopia: Senior Research Officer

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BBC Media Action is looking for a Senior Research Officer specialising in Qualitative Techniques to work across its health, resilience and agriculture projects in Ethiopia. Research is a core activity of BBC Media Action that is used both to inform our media outputs and evaluate their success. The Senior Research Officer (Qualitative) will be accountable for undertaking all aspects of qualitative research activities of the projects by BBC Media Action Ethiopia.

Duties include:

Leading the design, implementation and analysis of BBC Media Action’s qualitative research activities, working closely with the Research and Learning team in Addis Ababa and London.Responsible for qualitative research being delivered on time and within agreed budgets.Responsible for assuring the quality of qualitative data (during data collection, translation, management, analysis and reporting) and ensuring that ethical standards are upheld and research is conducted to a high standard.Explaining complex ideas and findings in a way that can be easily understood by the project team as well as other stakeholders

Essential:

Native Amharic and excellent EnglishExperience in developmental research work, with demonstrable experience in the design and implementation of qualitative research methods, including focus groups, in-depth interviews and other techniques

For a copy of the full job description please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/jobs and/or http://www.ethiojobs.net

How to apply:

To apply, candidates should write a letter in English, explaining – in an engaging way - why they are the right person for the job. The letter should be sent, with attached C.V., to the following email address:ethiopia@bbcmediaaction.org (the job title should be in the subject field of your email).

Candidates will be long listed based largely on the quality of their covering letter.

Deadline for applications: December 8th 2014

NB: Candidates should have Ethiopian nationality or have a valid Ethiopian work permit. Please note that these are not international postings.

BBC Media Action*is an international charity, which uses media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human rights in developing countries. For more information please see our website:**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/](http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/

Job ID: #742396 Training categories: Information/CommunicationsMonitoring and Evaluation Country: Ethiopia City: Addis Ababa Organization: BBC Media Action Theme: AgricultureHealth Job years of experience: N/A Job type: Job How to apply HomeUpdatesCountriesDisastersTopicsOrganizationsJobsTraining About Us Help ReliefWeb Informing humanitarians worldwide. A service provided by

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