• Application Deadline: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Research Manager


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Data Science / Research 
  

The successful candidate will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, which drives analysis of the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector. You will be part of a multinational and multilingual team that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine intelligence tools and digital surveys/analysis to create research reports and datasets for a global audience and international institutional partners. 

Candidates must have demonstrable experience in managing research teams, in planning and coordinating the execution of data-driven digital research projects, and transforming the research insights into publishable formats.

The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in international languages such as French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.

Required

• Evidence of managing a substantive research project, or research team.


• Experience in building design approaches and methodologies for research teams, and a familiarity with taxonomies and schema that inform research projects. 


• Strong analytical and logical skills, with a demonstrable track record translating data into actionable insights.


• An understanding of media ecosystems and economies and/or digital advocacy and/or digital civic engagement.


• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for publication, present research insights and shape research proposals.


• Meticulous eye for detail to ensure data integrity and analytical precision.


• The ability to collaborate with a diverse set of multidisciplinary project stakeholders.


• Experience in working with remote, distributed teams with agile methodologies.


• Previous experience of contributing to reports and research publications


• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving


• Ability to work under tight deadlines with good prioritisation and time management skills


• Ability to work with minimal instruction in a teamwork environment


• Strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal skills


• High professional standards and ethics

Preferred

• Competence in open source intelligence (OSINT) research techniques, including data scraping, data mining and other intelligence gathering techniques.


• Competence in computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and specifically the  methodologies and tools offered by the MediaCloud.org platform.


• Multiple languages, such as French, Arabic and other languages spoken in Africa.