Research Associate

I. Position Information

Job title: Research Associate

Location:  Aahung Karachi Office

II. Organizational and Position Information

Aahung works with partner institutions with the aim of building the capacity and knowledge base of service providers comprised of doctors, nurses, government health workers, community and field workers, teachers and parents.

Research Associate Role

This is a short-term contractual position for a duration of 9 months, with a fixed monthly payment without additional benefits. The Research Associate will be expected to perform the tasks outlined below, and keep regular working hours.

III. Essential Functions / Key Responsibilities and Duties/Results Expected

Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation

• Conduct relevant activities for all on-going research studies, including fieldwork for primary data collection

• Conduct both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis for on-going research studies

• Develop research proposals and protocols for IRB approval

• Develop research manuscripts, abstracts, and briefs for submission to journals and conferences

• Support executive team in programme conceptualization, logical framework analysis

• Provide grant writing support to RLE and component managers by conducting literature reviews, developing indicators and preparing drafts of grant proposals

• Facilitate all components in the development of quantitative and qualitative tools for collecting data for needs assessments, baseline studies and output and impact level evaluations studies

• Support RLE team in any monitoring and evaluation tasks, including field visits

• Support RLE team in any reporting activities, including developing reports

• Participate and represent the organization in events and meetings as directed

·         Demonstrates commitment to SRHR and Aahung’s mission, vision and values.

·         Experience and understanding of sexual and reproductive health and sexuality issues

·         Experience and understanding of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and sexuality issues

·         Experience and understanding of human rights, reproductive rights and sexual rights

·         Familiarity with concepts such as empowerment, stigma, discrimination, non-judgmentalism, gender, and social justice

·         Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

·         Familiarity with reproductive health indicators and situation in Pakistan

·         Familiarity with relevant international documents such as the MDGs, ICPD, the Beijing Conference, etc., and Pakistan’s commitments to them

·         Demonstrable commitment to working with empowerment of sexually marginalized groups (gay, lesbian, transgender, transgender, HIV positive, etc.)

·         Respect for confidentiality and ability to adhere to confidentiality policies

V. Recruitment Qualifications  

Experience with conducting quantitative and  qualitative data analysis and with data analysis software (e.g. Stata or RStudio, and NVivo or Atlas.ai).

2.     Familiarity with designing research studies and developing data collection tools

3.     Experience with IRB review process and publishing research findings

4.     Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative data collection

5.     Strong data management and analytical background for both quantitative and qualitative data

6.     Strong documentation and record keeping skills

Candidates to send their CV and up to two relevant writing samples to jobs.aahung@gmail.com