Call for Applications for appointment as Research and Training Coordinator

Qualification and Experience

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in communications, education, international development, management, planning, or project-related technical field
• Minimum of three years’ experience in training or event management OR, any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.
• Proficient in word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet applications 
• Proficient in writing, creating, formatting, and editing documents and templates
• Experience training others one-on-one and in groups
• Understanding of higher education institutions
• International development experience 
• Experience with Google Workspace environment
• Experience in analysing data, creating descriptive statistics, comparing pre-test and post-test evaluation scores, and creating data visualizations
• Experience in event planning or executive support is an added advantage
• Experience in mixed-method research design

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Draft and edit reports, presentations, evaluations, and surveys
• Facilitate/create/edit the mandatory reporting for all component activities (data and narrative reporting)
• Create and maintain documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms in Google Workspace
• Set-up team meetings, draft and monitor meeting agenda, and host/co-host Zoom meetings
• Handle logistics for in-person, online, and hybrid events
• Create, disseminate and analyse pre-test and post-test surveys
• Serve on Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning working group, and support the Gender inclusion working group 
• Attend and contribute to Key Personnel meetings
• Develop operating procedures, guidance documents, and templates for the project
• Perform data entry and upload data to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) DevResults system
• Follow up with team members to meet deliverable and deadlines

Skills

• Strong attention to detail
• Cross-cultural communicator
• Lifelong learner
• Self-starter, proactive planner, and organizer
• Comfortable with technology/learning new programs/software
• Data entry 
• Excellent written and verbal communication