Are you passionate about generating evidence to improve education systems and opportunities for children and young people to learn? Are you an excellent project manager, with strong research skills, an analytical mindset and an ability to communicate complex findings in a straightforward and engaging way? Do you have expertise in education in East Africa, and experience managing and coordinating large-scale data collection exercises?
We are looking for an ambitious and committed research professional to join our growing team. The role will be based in East Africa, where we have a growing portfolio of partnerships and projects. The appointed candidate will manage the delivery of the baseline of our newest project, a large-scale impact and process evaluation of a play-based education intervention in Ethiopia. They will also act as a senior qualitative and/or quantitative evaluator on that project and add technical and project management inputs to a diverse range of our other education evaluation and research projects.
Candidates will need strong quantitative, qualitative and/or mixed-method research skills, excellent project management abilities, strong knowledge and understanding of the issues facing education systems and schools in East Africa and other low- and middle-income contexts, and the ability to communicate findings in a clear and compelling way.
Oxford MeasurEd is a global education consultancy dedicated to working with partners to design, collect, analyse and use data to improve learning for all children around the world. Our work includes four key technical areas: supporting our partners with learning assessments, educational research, evaluation and organisational learning and growth.
Oxford MeasurEd prides itself on analytical rigour and we strive to achieve excellence in everything we do. This commitment is matched by dedication to our core purpose – working to understand and improve learning around the world. We are a fast-paced organisation, focused on responding to the information needs of our partners as well as contributing to longer-term policy debates. Candidates will need the ability to work at pace on multiple projects at the same time and a strong desire to progress within an academically-rigorous and policy-engaged team.
