Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating (Hybrid / Remote)

Overview

ENVIRONMENT : LEAD research programmes & projects in a relatively new and exciting Innovation & Learning portfolio as the next Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating sought by a Community Upliftment Programme based in Johannesburg. You will explore and seek new knowledge and introducing what’s valuable to the programme appropriately, manage research & evaluation assets while designing appropriate (often mixed methods) approaches and adapting these over time. Applicants will require a Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience, preferably PhD with practical experience with at least 8 years’ relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts incl.

4 years in senior role(s) successfully leading functions and managing teams. You must also have experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and / or organisations, thoughtful familiarity with M&E / MEL / MERL approaches and practices & a track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity.

Duties

Leading and developing approach(es) to identifying, creating, nurturing and sharing knowledge (know-how & know-that) for use across the network and ecosystem –

• Explore and seek new knowledge and introducing what’s valuable to the programme appropriately.
• Collaboratively question key assumptions.
• Collaboratively identify, create, and package knowledge for use & sharing –
• Lead an asset-based orientation to knowledge.
• Create, distil and / or package knowledge from people’s experience and expertise, with an orientation towards people’s agency & diversity, and “positive deviance”.

Co-create the network-wide conditions for more deeply reflective practice and evaluative thinking (with the rest of the Innovation & Learning portfolio) -

Leading and developing approach(es) to researching and evaluating -

Leading scoping, designing and managing research and evaluation programmes and projects –

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