Research Officer Jobs at Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to elimination of extreme poverty. We are implementing a project titled Economic and Social Empowerment of the Extreme Poor (ESEP) project under Haor Programme. This project is being implemented in six Upazillas under Kishoregonj, Sunamgonj and Hobigonj districts for the duration up to November 2014. For this project currently we have opening for the following positions:

Position: Research Officer 
No. of Vacancies :  01
Job Location: Dhaka
Application Deadline: September 15, 2013

Research Officer with the Research Group of Gender, Health, Human Rights and Violence against Women under the Centre for Equity and Health Systems (Advertisement #241/13)

icddr,b invites applications from  suitable candidates for the position of  Research Officer with the Research Group of Gender, Health, Human Rights and Violence against Women under the Centre for Equity and Health Systems. The appointment will be made on a Contractual Service Agreement (CSA) basis for 10 months, which may be extended for further period depending on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

Duty Station – Dhaka.

Salary - Tk.33,386/-(Consolidated) per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances. No other benefit is admissible.
Application Deadline: June  25,  2013

Research Investigator with Research Group of Gender, Human Rights and Violence against Women under the Centre for Equity and Health Systems (Advertisement #247/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable candidates for the position of  Research Investigator with Research Group of Gender, Human Rights and Violence against Women under the Centre for Equity and Health Systems. The appointment will be made on a fixed-term basis for 1 year, which is renewable depending on performance and availability of funds.

Duty station – Dhaka.
Salary – Annual Tk.8,53,860/- inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances with other admissible benefits.
Application Deadline: 25 June 2013

Project Research Manager with the Research Group of Fertility and Family Planning under the Centre for Population, Urbanization and Climate Change (Advertisement #212/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable candidates for the position of Project Research Manager with the Research Group of Fertility and Family Planning under the Centre for Population, Urbanization and Climate Change. The appointment will be made on a Contractual Service Agreement (CSA) basis for 3 months, which may be extended for further period depending on availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

­­­­­Duty Station – Dhaka

­­Salary - Tk.87,708/-(consolidated)  per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances.  No other benefit is admissible. 

Application Deadline: May 30,  2013

Research Officer with Research Group of Maternal and Reproductive Nutrition under the Centre for Reproductive Health (Advertisement #213/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable candidates for the position of  Research Officer with Research Group of Maternal and Reproductive Nutrition under the Centre for Reproductive Health. The appointment will be made on a fixed-term basis for 1 year, which is renewable depending on performance and availability of funds.

 

Duty station – Parbatipur, Dinajpur.

 

Salary – Annual Tk.4,00,630/- inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances with other admissible benefits.

 

Benefits/facilities – 14.8% retirement fund contribution by icddr,b, children allowance @Tk.1,420/- per child per month, medical facilities for dependent spouse and children, group life insurance. Subsidized canteen, transport and daycare facilities subject to availability.

Application Deadline: May 29, 2013

Field Research Assistant (4 posts) with the Respiratory Vaccines under the Centre for Vaccine Sciences (Internal Advertisement #208/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable female candidates (staff members & CSA holders)  for the position of Field Research Assistant (4 posts) with the Respiratory Vaccines under the Centre for Vaccine Sciences. The appointment will be made on a Contractual Service Agreement (CSA) basis for 6 months, which may be renewable depending on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

Duty station – Dhaka

Salary – Tk.20,990.00/-(consolidated) per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances. No other benefit is admissible. 

Application Deadline: May 27,  2013

Field Research Officer with the Research Group of Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Communicable Diseases (Advertisement #209/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable candidates for the position of Field Research Officer with the Research Group of Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Communicable Diseases. The appointment will be made on a Contractual Service Agreement (CSA) basis for 11 months, which may be renewable depending on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

Duty Station – Dhaka

Salary – Tk.33,386/-(consolidated) per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances. No other benefit is admissible.

Application deadline: May 27, 2013

Research Officer at ADD International

Vacancy Announcement for Research Officer
       ADD International
Working with Disabled People to Promote Human Rights

ADD is a UK based international organization working with disabled people in 8 countries of Asia and Africa to promote human rights and ensure social justice through capacity building and influencing change in policies through advocacy. In Bangladesh, ADD now operates in 16 districts directly and through supporting grassroots DPOs.

ADD are currently operating a project entitled “From Margin to Mainstream: A Drive of Challenged People for Economic Empowerment” with financial assistance from the EEP/Shiree. Shiree is a DFID/UKAID and GoB-supported Challenge Fund specifically working with the extreme poor in Bangladesh. It currently funds 36 different projects, the portfolio of which is diverse: targeting a variety of vulnerable populations (e.g. Female Headed-Households (FHHs), street children, the elderly and physically challenged), in distinct pockets of extreme poverty across the country. Through their partner projects, Shiree aims to create economic opportunities that allow households to climb out of extreme poverty.

ADD’s Shiree-funded project currently has a vacancy for a Research Officer. This is an ADD position and will be based in the Dhaka office, but involves research work across a selection of Shiree partner NGOs.

Research Officer

Location: Dhaka with frequent field visits and travel

Salary will be BDT 55,000-60,000 per month.

Length of contract: Until end of December 2013, with possibility of extension

For more information please visit: www.shiree.org. http://www.shiree.org/content/cms-overview.
http://www.shiree.org/content/eprg.   

Application Deadline: 25 May. 2013

Research Associate (RA) Jobs at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Position: Research Associate (RA)   
No. of Vacancies :  02   
Job Nature: Full-time
Salary Range: TK.35000 - 45000
Other Benefits: Other admissible benefits to be fixed on the basis of competencies
Job Location: Dhaka
Application Deadline: May 30, 2013   

Research Officer Jobs at Save the Children

Position: Research Officer
Number of Positions: 1
Job Location: Khulna
Application Deadline: 20-May-2013

Staff Researcher Jobs Circular at Brac

Position: Staff Researcher
No of Vacancy: 2
Salary Range: Tk. 25,645/-
Job Location: Habigonj, Sunamgonj
Application Deadline: 11 May, 2013

Oxfam is looking for a Research Officer

Oxfam is looking for dynamic team player for its REE-CALL [Resilience through Economic Empowerment, Climate Adaptation, Leadership and Learning] Programme under Bangladesh Programme. This is 02 years fixed term positions of the Country Programme.

Position: Research Officer
Vacancy: 01
Location: Based in Patuakhali

Young Researcher: D.Net, MAMA Bangladesh

Social Enterprise
Name of Position :      Young Researcher
Deadline :      March 07, 2012
Possible Date of Interview :      December 00, 0000
No. of Position :      NA
Salary (BDT) :      Standard

D.Net, MAMA Bangladesh has been conducting formative research to capture feedback on the service, content and business model of the initiative. MAMA Bangladesh under the name "Aponjon" is providing weekly messages to pregnant women, new mothers and to their gatekeepers by mobile phones. These messages are all about health and behavior information that a pregnant woman or a new mother should know. We had been capturing systematic data and quantitative feedback of the clients during our phone surveys. Now we would like to capture in-depth interviews of the clients in different districts of Bangladesh : Gaibandha, Sylhet, Chittagong and Dhaka.



For this we will recruit young researchers who have experience in qualitative research. We will proceed with the recruitment process very soon. We recommend the following traits in the researchers:



1. Graduate of Social Science(preferable) from any reputed universities

2. Sound knowledge on qualitative research

3. Strong command in English writing, reporting

4. Has experience in transcription and coding

5. Has experience in data collection

6. Skill in communication with urban, rural people

7. Can travel to any part of Bangladesh

8. Hard working, intelligent, good team worker

We will accept both male and female candidates.



All interested candidates are requested to submit their application along with CV & color photograph to jobs@dnet.org.bd on or before 07 March, 2012



Duration : Short term basis

Benefit    : Standard

Manager, Analysis, Research & Insights

Robi Axiata Limited plans to recruit the bright and dynamic individual who will strive for excellence and drive us towards success. Applicants must have the highest ethical standards, strong leadership skills, excellent judgment, a sense of personal initiative and problem solving abilities. Robi believes in equity in candidate selection.

    Department: Market Operation
    No. of Vacancies: 1
    Job Responsibility:

•     Responsible for complete market value chain researches and insights (across market operation, retailer, customer, networks and Robi)
•     Manage and evaluate methods and procedures for collecting data (such as surveys, opinion polls, or questionnaires), or arrange to obtain existing data
•     Manage reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text
•     Develop statistical models to predict customer value, customer response and classify customers based on household, demographic and transactional characteristics
•     Measure, assess, forecasting business / trend by using research analytics
•     Ensure information gathered is synthesized and meaningful and develops recommendations based on competitive findings
•     Manage research models and analytical development framework

    Educational Qualification :
    Minimum Bachelor degree from a reputed university
    Job Requirements :
        * Age : NA
        * Experience in related field minimum 4 year(s)
    Additional Requirements :

•     Customer and general people centricity
•     Knowledge domain on quantitative and qualitative and research models.
•     Analytical sense/observation with best possible skill/know how in excel, spss, sql, access, graphs, ppt
•     Research methodology know how and Statistical knowledge (applicable)
•     Market value chain understanding (how sales, service, marketing, regions, segments, product works/integrates and impact on customers/retailers
•     Planning mind with interest to learn continuously and drive for status quo

    Job Details:
        Job Type: Full Time
        Job Location: Dhaka
    Salary and Benefits :
        Salary : As per company policy.

Application Deadline : February 26, 2012

Programme Officer - Research & Documentation: ActionAid

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Reinforcing Priority	:	Land Rights
Location of posting	:	Dhaka (with extensive field visit)
Types of contract	:	Regular
Salary per month	:	BDT 36,474 with all admissible benefit including festival bonus, provident fund, gratuity, group life insurance, medical benefits, mobile allowance etc as per organisation policy.

 Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to
S/he will report to the Manager – Land Rights and act as a member of the Land Rights Team of AAB. The main purpose of the position is to facilitate the land, water & forest rights issues in achieving overall country strategy paper (CSP) by cooperating team members and planning interventions. Programme Officer supports the team through Research & Documentation according to the program, policy and strategic direction. Person is responsible for specific areas of the issues such as; Research & Documentation. Broadly his /her spans of work encompass activities related to the land-water-forest issues. The programme Officer is partially responsible for attaining the organisational emergency management and any priority issues that needed by the organisation.

Specific responsibilities are as follows:

•     Providing programmatic and strategic guidelines to the team through developing, implementing and maintaining programme and policy to accessing natural resources of the poor and marginalized people in line with country strategy paper.
•     Providing technical/informative/documentation support and inter-priority linkage on improving human rights.
•     Build linkages and promote team work among other relevant institutions, networks, activists and feeding AAB experiences into external debates and forey.
•     Coordinating internal & external research or study and collecting documents or information from source related to land-water-forest rights issues.
•     Participate in local, national and regional forums, networks, seminars on Land Rights issues.
•     Providing support to the policy advocacy on the issues through linking with research / study findings.
•     Capacity building of partners through field visit, training, providing guideline and feedback.

Relationships

S/he has to maintain functional relationship with his/her peers in team, priority and project management team. S/he also has to have open communication with other team & priorities for land rights issue and other colleagues within AAB. S/he has to be in communication with the partner, focal points and Local Rights Programme (LRP) level officers.

As his/her primary relationship is with his team, daily communication and mentoring process needs to be continuous. For external relationship s/he has to maintain networking with the multi stakeholder forum along with civil society activists, associations, academics and donor community. S/he has to maintain a good relationship with the related government departments & ministries.
Challenges

Promotion and crating access of the poor and marginalised people in Bangladesh as their rights on common property resources, under the present government policies and structure, where they do not have access to resources, skills, services and opportunities is a continuous challenges.

In addition, making partner organisations understand achieving priority goals through human right based approach and streamlining their activities with the planning and budgetary process is the major challenge in the job. Although the job demands more conceptual framework development, the operational demands of the job is another key challenge.
Other related information

As a result of changing of development discourses the job demands linking the governance along with climate justice, women rights, rights of indigenous and marginalized that coming up so that proactive policy formulation and implementation could be made favouring the rights holders. In view of potential more crosscutting issues among AAIB programmes, coordination and networking part of this job would increase at a significant level in future.
Required qualification and competencies:

•     Masters degree preferably in Statistics, Anthropology, Social Science or equivalent with practical experience in relevant field
•     At least 3-4 years of working experience in the relevant field.
•     Should be gender sensitive and familiar with Human Rights Based Approach
•     Leadership skill and ability to work in a team
•     Ability to work under extreme pressure.
•     Knowledge of MS-Word, MS-Excel, SPSS, MS-PowerPoint and the use of internet
•     Good interpersonal skills
•     Knowledge on participatory tools and techniques.
•     Good communication and report writing skills both in English and Bangla

Application instructions

Only those who meet the above requirements are requested to apply. Please follow apply instructions below:

•     Last date of application is Thursday, February 16, 2012 on or before 5:00 PM
•     Please click this link to find a prescribed Job Application Form & send the filled in form to aab.jobs@actionaid.org
•     Mention the name of the position applied for in subject of the e-mail
•     Attach a cover letter justifying your suitability (address Head, Human Resource & Organisation Development)

ActionAid aims to attract and select a diverse workforce with skills and capabilities to fulfil requirements. Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature.

Research Medical Officer:UChicago Research Bangladesh Ltd.

Position : Research Medical Officer(s)
Duty Station : Araihazar Upazila (Narayangonj)
Salary: Tk 27,000/- to Tk 30,000/- consolidated 

Deadline: 18 February 2012

Senior Research Associate at BRAC

Position: Senior Research Associate
Deadline: 26 December 2011

BRAC, one of the world’s leading development organizations has extensive development programmes globally. BRAC International is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill up the following position:

Senior Research Associate

Key Responsibilities:

1. Have to manage a research and evaluation cell and research projects in respective countries.
2. Recruit survey managers and supervise their activities.
3. Conceptualise research objectives and define research questions.
4. Assist programmes in preparing new project proposals.
5. Use appropriate and creative methodology to design and conduct research.
6. Apply statistical techniques to analyze relevant information, including surveys, case studies and interviews.
7. Test theories using data and interpret findings.
8. Write report and policy brief.
9. Disseminate results.
10. Ensure that research is conducted within time and budget constraints.
    

Educational Requirements:

1. Masters in Economics / Statistics / Development Studies or related discipline from any reputed university with first class / division or equivalent CGPA in all academic records.

Experience Requirements: Minimum two (2) years experience in relevant field.

Additional requirement:

1. Ability to perform work with minimum supervision.
2. Enthusiasm to work in challenging conditions.
3. Excellent analytical and report writing skills.
4. Ability to work with tight deadlines.
5. Knowledge on statistical software (e.g. STATA) is essential.
6. Strong communication skills and having excellent command in English.
   

How to apply:

If you feel you are the right match for above mentioned position, please send your CV to recruitment.bi@brac.net mentioning name of the position in the subject bar. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. For more information about BRAC International, please visit our website www.brac.net


BRAC is an equal opportunity employer

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ActionAid Bangladesh is looking for Programme Officer - Research

Position: Programme Officer - Research
Type of Contract: Short Term (Up to July 31, 2012)
Deadline: October 01, 2011 on or before 5:00 PM

ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.

ActionAid Bangladesh is looking for suitable candidate for the following position:
Programme Officer - Research
Scaling up Community-Based Adaptation with Local Government in Bangladesh (CBA-LG) Project


Key responsibilities:

• Support the drafting of overall research plans; contribute to strategic and action plans; formulate, develop and continually update research strategies to secure effective implementation
• Assist in the design/implement models for research projects; gather information for ongoing projects
• Prepare concept notes, draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications; ensure quality control of translation/adaptation of documents in English
• Review and analyse issues and trends, prepare impact evaluation or equivalent studies etc.
• Provide technical assistance to local partners and Gonogobeshona (community research) teams in conducting research on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction using participatory tools
• Coordinate the preparation and convening of expert meetings relative to research projects and responding to internal and external research queries from colleagues and stakeholders
• Build strategic relationships with key international institutions, government officials and local partners organisations to contribute to in-country and international research
• Expand and maintain a network of specialist researchers, research assistants and supervise Field Research Assistants
  

Required qualifications & competencies:

• Masters degree in Development Studies/ Sociology/ Anthropology/ Geography/ Environment Science/ equivalent
• At least 3 years of work experience in ‘applied research’ in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
• Good knowledge in qualitative and qualitative research
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadline
  
• Willingness to extensive field visit
• Publication on or related to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction is desired
  

How to apply:

Only those who meet the above requirements are requested to apply. Please follow the apply instructions below:

Last date of application is Thursday October 01, 2011 on or before 5:00 PM

• Please click this link to find a prescribed Job Application Form & send the filled in form to aab.jobs@actionaid.org
  
• Mention the name of the position applied for in subject of the e-mail
• Attach a cover letter addressing Head – Human Resource & Organisation Development
  

[ActionAid aims to attract and select a diverse workforce with the skills and capabilities to fulfil the requirements. Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature.]

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Be a Lecturer and Reseach Officer at University Of Chittagong

UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY
WANTED

 

Applications are invited from Bangladeshi and overseas candidate for the following positions.

1. Lecturer (Ophthalmology)
2. Lecturer (Optometry)

3. Research Officer
Deadline: 5th October, 2011

Field Research Assistant at ICDDR,B

Position: Field Research Assistant with the Matlab Health Research Centre under the Public Health Sciences Division (Re-Advertisement #264/11)
Salary - Tk.18,173/-(consolidated) per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances. No other benefit is admissible.
 Deadline: 24 September 2011