Director of Program Effectiveness Research at Compassion International

• Remote – USA
• Malawi
• Myanmar
• Uganda
• Togo
• Cambodia
• Thailand
• Tanzania
• Rwanda
• Peru
• Nicaragua
• Mexico
• Indonesia
• Guatemala
• Ghana
• El Salvador
• Ecuador
• Dominican Republic
• Colombia
• Brazil
• Bolivia
• Philippines
• Kenya
• Honduras
• Haiti
• Ethiopia
• Burkina Faso
• Bangladesh
• Zambia

time type Full time
job requisition id R5846

The
expected salary range for this position is $159,550.00 – $199,420.00.
Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States
(such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic
differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third
parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job
openings.

This Director of Research will lead the organizational
vision for conducting research to improve impact and scale across
Compassion’s child development programs, to inform leadership
decision-making and marketing platforms, and to influence the sector to
uptake research results and findings. He/she will continue to build
organizational capacity and systems for research, drive research
agendas, and lead research teams and projects to answer the most
pressing questions to improve impact and scale.

The director
will provide direction through subordinate managers and staff including
hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as, coaching, performance
management, assigning, checking, and approving work to achieve global
strategies and objectives. In addition, he/she will collaborate with
other senior leaders and contribute to the development of functional
strategy and make decisions based on operational strategy and
priorities.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a remote position that
can be based in the US or in one of Compassion’s countries. All resumes
must be submitted in English.

What will you do?

• Maintain
  a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for
  Jesus Christ, maintain a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with
  people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully uphold
  Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Act as an advocate to raise the
  awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to
  protect children. Commit to and prioritize child protection
  considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the
  ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement
  of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any
  concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through
  Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately support
  responses to incidents if they occur.
• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
• Facilitate
  inclusive, participatory and collaborative process to develop annual
  research agendas to deliver high quality research.
• Lead high
  performing research teams consisting of a team of managers and
  qualitative and quantitative specialists to design and develop research
  projects and deliver on work plans to carry out the research agenda.
• Drive
  the team in using appropriate and rigorous approaches to generate
  reliable, timely and meaningful information to stakeholders. This
  includes stakeholder engagement, development of research questions,
  literature reviews and country-level contextualization, sample and
  participant selection, quantitative methodology development, in-depth
  analysis using the necessary data analysis tools, report writing and
  presentation to multiple audiences and forums.
• Refine and
  oversee technical research agenda driving towards improving Compassion’s
  impact, scale and influence across outcomes that incorporates
  identifying and filling critical evidence and knowledge needs.
• Support country and regional teams to streamline and carry out high quality data collection for research priorities.
• Strengthen
  and continuously improve Compassions’ research systems, including
  standards and support for high quality data collection, data storage,
  version control, cleaning, coding, analysis, writing and dissemination,
  including participants and communities involved in research.
• Develop
  Compassion’s Institutional Review Board and serve as the chair. Support
  teams to maintain high ethical standards in research.
• Develop
  and maintain strong partnerships with academic institutions or other
  external networks or institutions. Represent research internally and
  externally. Develop effective partnerships for research at country,
  regional, and global levels that will enhance Compassion’s ability to
  generate evidence.
• Present, publish and represent Compassion’s research at events and meetings to influence key stakeholders.
• Develop
  and maintain feedback loops that will facilitate participatory
  processes at church field partner, National Office, regional, and global
  levels.
• Cultivate strong relationships and strong collaboration
  across MERL and other departments within Compassion. Network with
  senior leaders from other departments that collect information and data
  (e.g., marketing, auditing and quality assurance, business intelligence,
  and management) in order to minimize duplication of effort, build
  cooperation and support the growth of quality information gathering
  across the organization. Represent Research with senior leaders across
  the organization.
• Serve as a connector to link strategy,
  research, and communications, ensuring that research, knowledge, and
  evidence production is communicated internally and externally through
  appropriate strategic channels to reach target audience and inform
  decision making.
• Provide leadership and development to direct
  reports. Works with staff to foster an environment of professional
  growth, in alignment with Compassion’s strategies and objectives.
  Consult with peer management and senior leaders to successfully align
  departmental resources and priorities across Compassion and drive
  research excellence.
• Compile or prepare and administer the
  annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for
  on-time completion of deliverables based on department objectives, KPIs,
  and other Compassion standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and
  board policies.
• Select, manage and develop assigned staff,
  establishing goals and objectives, coaching and managing performance,
  including discipline, motivation, and annual reviews. Support continuous
  learning and development that enhances individual performance and
  organizational capability.
• Direct subordinate managers and
  professionals in the presentation of research findings to large
  audiences in a consumable way to engage non-research staff in research
  results. Present research findings as well.

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What do you bring?

• Ph.D.
  preferred in field related to international development, humanitarian
  intervention (e.g., economics, epidemiology, psychology, statistics, or
  other social science fields). Master’s degree will be considered.
• 10+ years in research and experience in humanitarian or development contexts
• Extensive experience in designing research and managing research team in low resource environments.
• Fluency
  in translating the use of empirical evidence to support technical teams
  to know what works best to achieve and influence outcomes.
• Experience developing and driving a research strategy and learning agenda across a large complex organization.
• Strong record of publication and authorship/co-authorship of peer-reviewed articles.
• Strong professional network in humanitarian and development research communities.
• Very
  strong leadership and management competencies including the ability to
  bring people from diverse backgrounds along with a stated vision and
  strategy, and capacity to collaborate and communicate effectively with
  Compassion’s leadership, technical peers, and colleagues.
• Excellent public speaking and writing skills.
• Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking English is required; proficiency in Spanish or French is a plus.
• Travel
  – must be able to travel up to 25% of normal schedule including
  international travel. Travelers must follow the vaccination rule of each
  country they travel to. Some countries require the health record to be
  uploaded to their system to receive a QR code to present when arriving
  in immigrations.
• Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above.
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