Research Officer (Kenya)

9 months ago 36

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. We use media and communications to help reduce poverty, address development goals, and support people to understand their rights. We do this through partnering with media, civil society, and others to produce creative programmes and other outputs which inform and engage audiences on key development issues. We also strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure of local media organisations in the countries in which we work.

Main Duties

  • Under the supervision of the Research Manager, implement the project’s monitoring and evaluation activities. This will include designing research and tools, fieldwork coordination and logistics planning, data collection such as moderating focus groups and conducting in-depth interviews, data analysis and reporting
  • Provide training, mentoring and oversight to media practitioners on conducting audience research and how to utilize research findings to design/improve media programming
  • Co-develop projects’ theory of change and monitoring/evaluation frameworks in collaboration with the project team
  • Contribute to periodic and end-of-project reports describing progress and impact of project activities
  • Disseminate research findings internally and externally
  • Communicate effectively to all key project stakeholders to ensure effective project communications and management
  • Communicate effectively with the Research Manager
  • Ensure that all research activities are designed with safeguarding in mind, and that research design documents and tools reflect this
  • Ensure that relevant consent forms are in place for research participants
  • Ensure that all recruitment of research staff and freelancers complies with relevant safeguarding standards

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