YLabs
11 - 50 employees
Youth Development Labs [YLabs] is a leading global design and research organization working to amplify youth power, agency, and opportunity.
Senior Research Specialist – Contractor
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YLabs
11 - 50 employees
Youth Development Labs [YLabs] is a leading global design and research organization working to amplify youth power, agency, and opportunity.
📋 Description
• Lead the design, execution, and management of large-scale, high-impact research projects. • Develop innovative, adaptable research methodologies and tools to address project challenges and promote best practices in thematic areas such as economic development and youth employment. • Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams, including stakeholders, funders, and regional partners, to ensure research initiatives align with the broader impact goals. • Build the capacity of regional teams to conduct high-quality research and innovation activities by leading training and knowledge transfer sessions. • Conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including interviews, focus groups, stakeholder engagements, and data analysis. • Utilize quantitative methods to analyze large datasets, providing data-driven recommendations for decision-making. • Perform qualitative analysis to identify patterns and outcomes that can inform future innovations. • Use innovative frameworks like Human-Centered Design, Participatory Action Research, to inform user-centric, actionable solutions for complex development issues. • Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges across sectors like education, youth entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion and translate these findings into strategic insights that inform broader efforts. • Capture and synthesize research findings into comprehensive reports, policy briefs, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring insights are actionable and aligned with strategic goals. • Facilitate knowledge-sharing and capacity-building sessions to ensure insights are embedded across teams and projects. • Manage the collection, storage, and dissemination of research outputs, ensuring they contribute to an institutional knowledge base. • Engage with key stakeholders within YLabs and partner organizations to understand research needs and priorities. • Actively build and maintain relationships with research institutions, academic partners, and sector experts to ensure research outputs are innovative and aligned with best practices. • Provide high-quality data, insights, and narratives that demonstrate the impact of the research and innovation initiatives to support donor reporting. • Collaborate with MEL teams to ensure research outputs are effectively integrated into the project’s monitoring and evaluation frameworks. • Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring research initiatives are completed on time and within scope. • Provide regular updates and reporting on project progress, challenges, and recommendations to senior leadership.
🎯 Requirements
• 5 or more years of experience leading research studies (qualitative and/or mixed-methods), particularly interviews, focus groups, and community-based research activities. • Experience managing or contributing to donor-funded research projects. • Demonstrated experience turning research findings into actionable insights to guide programmatic or design decisions. • Demonstrated ability to recruit research participants, especially adolescents and youth. • Strong project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently. • Proficiency in research and data analysis tools (e.g., SPSS, Stata, R, NVivo). • A strong commitment to driving innovation and measurable impact in research initiatives. • Fluency in English is required. • Proficiency in other regional languages is highly desirable.
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