Director, Strategic Research – Evidence

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World Vision

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1950

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Consulting

World Vision is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, families, and communities. It focuses on sustainable development, disaster relief, and advocacy, working with local partners to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. Through various programs, World Vision aims to uplift vulnerable populations and promote social change in collaboration with communities around the world.

📋 Description

• Lead World Vision’s applied research, evidence generation and learning translation function using child data across the partnership • Produce decision-useful, externally credible evidence for programme quality, fundraising, policy influence and senior leadership decisions • Lead applied research and evidence synthesis using AIM/AIM+, programme monitoring, evaluations, operational research, commissioned studies and other evidence sources • Deliver the annual AIM/AIM+ insight narrative as a research and learning product • Commission and/or lead secondary analyses of the 400,000+ household AIM dataset and other datasets • Set interpretation standards for child-data research, including methods, uncertainty, claim boundaries, reproducibility and responsible use of sensitive data • Translate the OP3 research agenda into a sequenced portfolio of studies across child wellbeing, faith and development, climate stress and resilience, community transformation and systems transformation • Commission, scope, lead and quality assure research studies, evidence syntheses, secondary analyses, mixed-methods, longitudinal, quasi-experimental and comparative designs • Develop or approve research questions, theories of change, protocols, TORs/RFPs, analysis plans, sampling approaches, ethics/IRB pathways, data-use agreements, publication plans and acceptance criteria • Coordinate with field, regional, support-office, sector, fundraising, data management, university and external research teams • Develop university and research-institution partnerships, including co-PI models, advisory groups, fellowships and student pipelines • Build publication and dissemination pathways for peer-reviewed outputs, working papers, evidence briefs, donor-facing research products and public learning products • Represent World Vision’s research and evidence agenda with academic partners, donors, foundations and external evidence networks • Translate findings into leadership-ready insight products, Research Board materials, executive briefs, donor-facing narratives, programme design implications and practical learning tools • Define evidence-to-decision pathways and track research uptake, decision impact, external use and resource mobilisation • Lead a leveraged research and learning platform with researchers, specialists, commissioned researchers, university partners and working groups • Set annual workplans, quality standards, technical review cadence, escalation processes and product standards • Line-manage and/or matrix-manage research staff and consultants, setting priorities, coaching quality and ensuring accountability • Build organisational capability in research commissioning, analysis interpretation, responsible data use, research ethics, evidence translation and child-data insights • Embed responsible data practice, safeguarding, privacy, equity, inclusion and child-sensitive research standards

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Data Science, Economics, Social Sciences, International Development, Evaluation, Implementation Science, or a related research-intensive discipline • Formal training in quantitative methods, research design, evaluation, data analysis, or equivalent professional experience • At least 12 years of progressive experience in applied research, evidence synthesis, impact evaluation, statistics/biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, economics, data science, or development/humanitarian evidence roles, including senior multi-country leadership responsibilities • Ability to lead a research and evidence agenda or portfolio across multiple countries, sectors, stakeholders and evidence products • Technical expertise in quantitative and/or mixed-methods research using large household survey or programme datasets, including sampling, weighting, variance estimation, subgroup/equity analysis, trend or change analysis, and clear articulation of evidence claim limits • Experience synthesising evidence across multiple data sources, including AIM/AIM+, programme monitoring, evaluations, operational research, grant/sponsorship evidence, external datasets and commissioned studies • Experience commissioning and overseeing external research studies, including research questions, TORs/RFPs, protocols, analysis plans, quality assurance, ethical review, data-use agreements, publication plans and dissemination plans • Experience translating evidence for senior leaders, programme teams, donors, boards and external audiences • Ability to work across health, nutrition, WASH, livelihoods, child protection, climate/resilience, fragile contexts, humanitarian programming, and faith and development sectors • Experience building or managing partnerships with universities, research institutes, donors, foundations or external technical partners • Strong applied skills in R, Python, Stata, SPSS or equivalent statistical software and/or data pipelines • Familiarity with Power BI or equivalent business intelligence tools • Experience leading virtual, matrixed and cross-cultural teams and influencing senior stakeholders without relying solely on direct line authority • Must be fluent in English • Ability and willingness to travel up to 15% of the time • Ability to work effectively in a global, virtual, matrixed environment across time zones • Local Applicants Only • Successful applicant must affirm World Vision’s core documents and observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, to the fullest extent legally permissible • Preferred but not required: PhD or doctoral-level research training; peer-reviewed publications; child wellbeing/public health/nutrition/WASH/livelihoods/resilience/child protection/faith and development/climate/humanitarian research; longitudinal, ex-post, quasi-experimental, causal inference, econometric, psychometric, index-development, evidence synthesis or implementation science methods; responsible data governance, data protection, research ethics, IRB processes, safeguarding and sensitive data; research funding; second WV operational language such as French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work from home in the successful candidate’s home country where WVI is registered to operate • Global, virtual, matrixed work environment • Opportunity to lead research and learning capability building • Travel up to 15% of the time • Christian humanitarian organisation mission and service environment