Research & Insights Lead / Jobtech Alliance

• Bachelor’s degree in business, social science, international development, or a related field.
  
• 5+ years of relevant experience, including working in or with technology startups.
  
• Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
  
• Demonstrated familiarity with both business strategies and decisions, as well as user-level impact.
  
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with a keen ability to synthesize and present complex data in a simple, compelling, meaningful way.
  
• Computer proficiency in word processing, databases, and spreadsheets.
  
• Must be a strong self-starter.
  
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner while balancing several assignments with inputs from multiple team members.
  

• Bachelor’s degree in business, social science, international development, or a related field.
  
• 5+ years of relevant experience, including working in or with technology startups.
  
• Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
  
• Demonstrated familiarity with both business strategies and decisions, as well as user-level impact.
  
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with a keen ability to synthesize and present complex data in a simple, compelling, meaningful way.
  
• Computer proficiency in word processing, databases, and spreadsheets.
  
• Must be a strong self-starter.
  
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner while balancing several assignments with inputs from multiple team members.
  

STRATEGY, RESEARCH AND LEARNING AGENDA - 20%

• Contribute to our learning and research strategy, about how we produce and disseminate learning products, to most effectively influence the jobtech ecosystem.
  
• Co-shape the overarching learning agenda of the Jobtech Alliance. Identify emerging themes coming out of our work, as well as upon the wider jobtech horizon, which require further research.
  
• Support the venture building team to identify learning themes and opportunities within their innovation sprints.
  
• Advise the team on new issues they should be addressing in their work, based on reading emerging research in the jobtech space.
  

• Conduct research on varying themes with acceleration start-up partners, from product design, to business model strategy, user-level impact, and/or operations. This involves strategizing research approaches and methodologies in a manner that is adapted to each innovation project’s needs, and would involve data collection activities with start-ups, the venture building team, and users themselves.
  
• Analyze, synthesize, and produce knowledge products as a primary author for various forms of audiences and channels, including long-form reports, blogs, and other communication mediums for knowledge products. Our content will primarily be in the form of 5-10 page learning reports, and 1-2 page blogs, with a few longer-form research products. 
  

• Manage quarterly research and content calendar. Ensure that research and content (blogs etc) are on course.
  
• Edit blogs and learning products produced by other team members.
  
• Manage larger research products by consultants or external actors (for longer-form research products). 
  

• Function as a learning focal point for engagement with external stakeholders. Attend local events, meetings and networking activities.
  
• Where suitable, convene researchers in the jobtech space to move forward learning agenda, or to foster collaboration.