Research Lead at Busara Center

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Research Lead at Busara to manage a portfolio of current Busara projects, ensuring high-quality work is delivered; manage our academic network, academic - advisory partnerships, and new collaboration opportunities; support on Busara’s international lab expansion; and line manage our team of managers and specialists with a growth mindset focused on mentoring and developing their expertise.

Responsibilities

Lead on delivering top-notch research

• Manage a portfolio of projects to deliver high-quality work, including managing internal and external client relationships, and managing Busara’s management teams.
• Ensure Busara’s standards for lab protocols, pre-analysis plans, and research ethics are followed across our work, leading work-plan development and coordination across portfolios and projects.
• Design state-of-the-art research systems to support field and lab research.

Manage internal research portfolios and initiatives

• Manage initiatives like our Off the Record (here) series, including our research agenda, work-plans, and blog outputs.
• Develop our academic network further and lead new and innovative ways of collaborating with academics and researchers.
• Support on lab expansion to new regions/geographies and with new partners.
• Lead other internal initiatives like developing tool-kits and handbooks, redesigning a gender-sensitive lab, updating standards for lab research, streamlining lab processes, etc.

Lead and manage teams across Busara offices

• Manage mid-level Lab staff across our Kenya, Nigeria, and India offices.
• Help facilitate the development of team members’ skills and expertise.

Represent Busara externally

• Disseminate results, prepare project reports, and present results at conferences.
• Contribute to content creation and execution for Busara’s internal and external capacity building and learning initiatives