Director, Strategic Research – Evidence

🕒 August 28

🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +5 more countries – Remote

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💵 $102.7k - $136.9k / year

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Founded 1950

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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 and externally credible evidence for programme quality, fundraising, policy influence and senior leadership decisions • 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 to generate cross-country insights • 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, technical review processes and acceptance criteria • Coordinate with Field Offices, Regional Offices, Support Offices, sector leads, grants, advocacy, disaster management, universities and external researchers • Develop university and research-institution partnerships and shape joint research through co-PI models, advisory groups, fellowships, data-access protocols, authorship plans and dissemination workplans • Build publication and dissemination pathways for peer-reviewed outputs, working papers, evidence briefs, donor-facing products and public learning products • Represent World Vision’s research and evidence agenda with academic partners, donors, foundations and external evidence networks • Translate research findings into leadership-ready insights, Research Board materials, executive briefs, donor narratives, programme design implications, influence products and practical learning tools • Define evidence-to-decision pathways and facilitate research uptake across programme, sector, advocacy, communications and senior leadership teams • Track research use, decision improvement, external uptake and contribution to resource mobilisation • Lead a leveraged research and learning platform including researchers, commissioned researchers, university partners, sector specialists 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, coaching technical quality and ensuring accountability • Build organisational capability in research commissioning, analysis interpretation, responsible data use, research ethics, evidence translation and child-data insight use • 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 articulation of evidence claim limitations • 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; familiarity with Power BI or equivalent • 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, where legally permissible

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work from home in the successful candidate’s home country where WVI is registered to operate • Global, virtual, matrixed work environment • Travel opportunity of up to 15% of the time

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