Regional Researcher, South Africa

PSI seeks a Regional Researcher for Southern Africa to provide support to PSI’s global mission. This full time position is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and will report to the CSM, Project Director. The regional researcher would provide capacity building support, technical assistance and analysis to PSI programs in 8 countries in the Southern Africa region: South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.


PSI Research & Metrics aims to improve the performance of PSI interventions through multi-disciplinary research and modeling on populations and markets. For more information, please visit: http://www.psi.org//resources/research-metrics

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RESPONSIBILITIES: The regional researcher collaborates across PSI departments to:

• Manage and implement research monitoring and evaluation activities, including study designs, questionnaire development, analysis, and dissemination;

• Train country-level researchers and build capacity to design studies, oversee data collection, and analyze/interpret results;

• Work with country-level researchers to develop annual research portfolios and manage local research subcontractors;

• Design quantitative studies to segment populations, monitor social marketing activities over time, and evaluate intervention effectiveness;

• Design qualitative studies to create multidimensional scales, develop communication concepts, and pretest communication strategies;

• Analyze study data, write reports, and deliver presentations to internal and external stakeholders;

• Provide technical assistance to country platforms to build skills in interpreting research results and using a research to action approach to guide program decisions and activities;

• Develop training materials and research toolkits (best practice statements) to build capacity of local researchers and partner organizations;

• Present and Publish research findings;

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