Hybrid Senior Analyst – Governance Portfolio

at Busara

• Job title: Senior Analyst – Governance Portfolio
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Nairobi, Kenya

About the role

• Senior Analyst providing research and advisory support at Busara across various projects. Engaging in qualitative and quantitative research activities while ensuring high-quality client interactions.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Analyst supports the advisory and arm of Busara in making informed decisions and setting priorities on projects.
• The Senior Analyst will be expected to have accurate knowledge of a situation, a market, an issue, or a social context that is often useful in accessing project parameters.
• The Senior Analyst will engage in a variety of research activities both qualitative and quantitative and will be required to support research preparation.
• The Senior Analyst will be tasked with research preparation, structuring, and ultimately composing reports, deliverables, and analysis on ongoing projects, in close coordination with the Associates.
• S/he will also be responsible for sensitive and delicate client interactions, and final project outputs, requiring extreme attention to detail and dedication to high-quality outputs.
• Conduct research preparation activities including literature reviews.
• Engage in multiple large-scale research and advisory projects at a given time.
• Manage external and internal engagements independently and with limited supervision.
• Interpret, evaluate, and clarify research requests to determine potential data sources and informational resources; identify, and discuss research needs with Associates and Engagement Directors.
• Provide customized reports, highlighting main findings and key points, and effectively communicate the results to the end-user both orally and in writing.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve inquiries on external and internal research data and act as a research resource person for senior leadership, internal teams, staff, and external parties.
• Recommend data sources and make recommendations on all phases of projects. Work closely, when necessary, with the data and programming team to source, clean, and structure data.
• Design effective quantitative and qualitative survey instruments and coordinate all activities associated with survey development and data collection including, formatting, liaising with survey programming teams, analyzing, summarizing, and presenting results; write reports highlighting key findings and present results.
• Contribute to the drafting of client reports, experimental designs, literature reviews, proposals, and pitch decks.
• Contribute to project on-boarding and off-boarding for knowledge management.
• Maintain and update project timelines. Alert Associates of upcoming deadlines, deliverables, and meetings.
• Perform any other duty as may be assigned by the project supervisor.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Public Policy, or related fields.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research, and data analytic skills.
• 2-year previous work experience in a related field
• Familiarity with basics of experimental design
• Demonstrates the ability to manage high-level relationships with partner organizations.
• Excellent management and organizational skills.
• Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and a team player.
• Must have a growth mindset, and have interest and experience working in a fast-paced working environment.
• Fluency and excellent communication and writing skills with a mastery of English
• Extreme attention to detail while sustaining a global focus and vision for institutional planning and decision making.
• Ability, interest and willingness to travel to all project locations as assigned which may include in-country, regional and international locations in the Global South.
• Familiarity with R, STATA, Python, SAS, and/or other programming languages.

Benefits

• As profiles will be reviewed on a rolling basis, please apply as soon as possible.
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities