CLEAR Global is hiring a
Contract length: 6 months, with the possibility of extension
Hours: full-time
Location**:** Home based, preferably a candidate based in Nigeria
Travel: regular field trips to research locations in northeast Nigeria; if extended, potentially also to other parts of the country
Reporting to: Country Director
Remuneration: 3,800-4,500 USD/month
Deadline for applications: 14 October 2024*
*Due to the urgency of this vacancy, screening and interviews will commence immediately and the candidate can be selected at any stage before the closing date.
CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.
We offer in addition to salary:
The role
The Research Coordinator will lead all the design and delivery of research on barriers that affect the reach, impact, and accountability of the humanitarian response in Nigeria. A key responsibility will be overseeing research and monitoring activities for the Third Party Monitoring (TPM) project in Nigeria, funded by the FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). This includes ensuring that research and impact measurement are aligned with the objectives of the TPM project, and that findings also contribute to improving AAP, language services and communication practices across the humanitarian response.
The Research Coordinator is responsible for integrating results-based planning into program design, ensuring that research is utilized to improve AAP practices and the provision of language-inclusive practices across the humanitarian sector.
Furthermore, the Research Coordinator will actively seek opportunities to enhance impact measurement, documentation, data collection, analysis, and the dissemination of lessons learned.
The Research Coordinator will report to the Nigeria Country Director and will work in close partnership with the Data Solutions Manager and the Global Researcher in CLEAR Global’s Research, Advocacy and Data (RAD) team.
Responsibilities
Design and lead project implementation
Development and implementation of CLEAR Global’s research standards
Evidence gathering and impact measuring
Reporting
Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.
Qualifications
The Research Coordinator should be a creative self-starter with a strong sense of initiative and enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s Core Values and can work in field location and virtually collaborate with team members based throughout the world.
Requirements
About CLEAR Global
CLEAR Global helps people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.
Core Values
CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are made of people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:
Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it is the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and conduct themselves professionally at all times.
CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.