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Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating (Hybrid/Remote)Other
KwaZulu Natal – South Africa, Johannesburg – Gauteng – South Africa, Western Cape – South Africa, Remote

ENVIRONMENT:
LEAD research programmes & projects in a relatively new and exciting Innovation & Learning portfolio as the next Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating sought by a Community Upliftment Programme based in Johannesburg. You will explore and seek new knowledge and introducing whats valuable to the programme appropriately, manage research & evaluation assets while designing appropriate (often mixed methods) approaches and adapting these over time. Applicants will require a Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience, preferably PhD with practical experience with at least . 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts incl.
4 years in senior role(s) successfully leading functions and managing teams. You must also have experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and/or organisations, thoughtful familiarity with M&E/MEL/MERL approaches and practices & a track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity.
DUTIES:
Leading and developing approach(es) to identifying, creating, nurturing and sharing knowledge (know-how & know-that) for use across the network and ecosystem
  • Explore and seek new knowledge and introducing whats valuable to the programme appropriately.
  • Collaboratively question key assumptions.
  • Collaboratively identify, create, and package knowledge for use & sharing
    • Lead an asset-based orientation to knowledge.
    • Create, distil and/or package knowledge from peoples experience and expertise, with an orientation towards peoples agency & diversity, and positive deviance.
  • Co-create the network-wide conditions for more deeply reflective practice and evaluative thinking (with the rest of the Innovation & Learning portfolio) –
    • Reflective practice: asking questions & questioning assumptions about ones own work and ways of working (standing on the balcony outside the dance, double loop learning, reflexivity, etc.).
    • Evaluative thinking: an attitude of inquisitiveness and a belief in the value of evidence
Leading and developing approach(es) to researching and evaluating –
  • Lead and manage an iterative, multi-question, multi-year agenda focused on use/utilisation.
  • Build wider understanding across the programme of the nature and value of questioning, researching & evaluating incl. evaluating as integral to practice; and research as informed by & informing practice.
  • Lead the programme using research in evaluating and using both in learning.
  • Build and sustain research-practice partnerships to realise the programmes approach.
  • Manage research & evaluation assets.
  • Researching: Curiously and creatively formulate, prioritise, and inquire into questions with appropriate discipline(s) and diligence yielding conclusions and new questions.
  • Evaluating: Any systematic process to judge merit, worth or significance by combining evidence and values. More specifically: Evaluation science is systematic inquiry into how, and how well, interventions aimed at changing the world work.
Leading scoping, designing and managing research and evaluation programmes and projects
  • Design appropriate (often mixed methods) approaches and adapting these over time.
  • Develop appropriate terms of reference and requests for proposal for independent evaluations.
  • Lead and manage research and/or evaluation programmes and/or projects.
  • Conduct research and/or evaluations.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications
  • Minimum Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience; preferably PhD with practical experience.
Experience/Skills
  • Min. 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts incl.
  • Min. 4 years in senior role(s) successfully leading functions and managing teams.
  • Experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and/or organisations.
  • Comfort and confidence leading sophisticated research and evaluations.
  • People-and-user-centered approaches to research and evaluating.
  • Thoughtful familiarity with M&E/MEL/MERL approaches and practices.
  • A track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity.
Advantageous
  • Fluency in one or more African languages.
  • Proficiency in/with
    • Tools suited to relevant research methods.
    • Developmental evaluation.
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