Job Description
KwaZulu Natal – South Africa, Johannesburg – Gauteng – South Africa, Western Cape – South Africa, Remote
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Minimum Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience; preferably PhD with practical experience.
- 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.
- Fluency in one or more African languages.
- Proficiency in/with
- Tools suited to relevant research methods.
- Developmental evaluation.
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