Research & Portfolio Development Associate at CTG

Position: Research & Portfolio Development Associate

CTG Overview

• CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions. With past performance in 17 countries – from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, we have placed more than 20,000 staff all over the world since operations began in 2006.
• CTG recruits, deploys and manages the right people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects, from cleaners to obstetricians, and mechanics to infection specialists, we’re skilled in emergency response to crises such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilise at speed; CTG can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in less than 2 weeks and have done so in 48 hours on a number of occasions.
• Through our efficient and agile HR, logistical and operational services, CTG saves multilateral organisations time and money. We handle all our clients’ HR related issues, so they are free to focus on their core services.
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Overview of Position

• Our client’s stabilization progranne in Mozambique is part and parcel of the Government’s priorities in Cabo Delgado, as embodied in the reconstruction plan (PRCD), and contributing to the Strategy for the Resilience and Integrated Development of the North (ERDIN) as well as to the Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessments (RPBA). Since 2021,
• Our client has initiated stabilization interventions to assist the government of Mozambique in its efforts to re-establish state presence in the reclaimed areas, paving the way for reconstruction and a subsequent safe and voluntary return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their areas of origin. Our client is already working in the districts of Macomia, Quissanga, Mocimboa da Praia and Palma. Benefiting from decades of experience in stabilization activities elsewhere on the continent and in the world, and with an office fully established in Pemba in 2021, Our client is supporting the government in three interrelated and complementary pillars: (1) Community security is improved with a focus on Rule of Law and Access to Justice, creating the foundation for social cohesion, peace and development; (2) Basic services and infrastructure are rehabilitated, functional, and accessible and the capacity of local authorities are developed to improve access to service delivery; (3) Socio-economic support is provided to individuals and communities, including immediate livelihood support for affected populations.
• In conjunction with its stabilization programme, our client is undertaking a researchbased project, which aims to reinforce the stabilization programme and client’s engagement more generally through community-based monitoring and portfolio development. The specific objective is to build an evidence-base that will inform the design of future interventions to be undertaken within or in conjunction with the stabilization engagement. To this end, client has collected primary data through rapid ethnography (including unstructured interviews, focus groups and participant observation). Based on this data, client has started to analyse communities’ and stakeholders’ perceptions of development challenges. The findings have been disseminated with the local communities, representatives of civil society, private sector, and the government. In these research-related activities, Our client has been working closely with the Agirre Lehendakaria Center, an organisation based in Spain which has remotely guided and helped implement the activities.
• Our client is now looking for a proactive and motivated Research and Portfolio Development Associate, to take on continued primary qualitative data collection and systematically transcribe and code the data based on themes and patterns identified. The Research and Portfolio Associate will also be expected to actively contribute to internal communication and outreach within client’s office in Pemba, to ensure coordination and identify synergies with other activities in the Stabilization Programme. The Research and Portfolio Associate will be asked to contribute to communications’ material and reports relating to the research and to participate in webinars with other practitioners working with the same methodology worldwide.
• Taking into consideration the security situation on the ground, the role will include travel to selected communities in Cabo Delgado.
• The Research and Project Development Associate will closely work with the Head of Solutions Mapping (based in Maputo), the Community Security Officer (based in Pemba), and other Pemba-based staff. Under the overall supervision of the Head ofSolutions Mapping. The Research and Project Development Associate will additionally work closely with the Agirre Lehendakaria Center, who will provide capacity building, coaching and technical advice related to the assignment, and who will be responsible for producing analytical products based on data collected.

Role Objectives
The overall objective is to support the client’s Stabilization Programme in Cabo Delgado in implementing community monitoring and participatory project design and co-drafting related research products.

The Research and Portfolio Associate will be responsible for conducting primary, mainly qualitative, data collection (semi- and unstructured interviews) with communities and local stakeholders and for ensuring the continuous transcription and coding of interview data. S/he will also be expected to proactively contribute to internal and external communication regarding the initiative and to continuously update both the supervisor (based in Maputo) and Pemba colleagues on important developments. The Research and Portfolio Associate is expected to be proficient in local languages spoken in Cabo Delgado.

Description of tasks and responsibilities

• Attend weekly remote support sessions with the Agirre Lehendakaria Center, biweekly review sessions with the Head of Solutions Mapping and other client staff, and other meetings as required
• Attend in-person training in systems mapping/systems analysis, rapid ethnography, co-creation, sensemaking, collective interpretation, and prototyping.
• Study and internalise written training material/guidance in Portuguese related to the assignment
• Update and maintain the database of interviewees and, together with ALC, help manage the interview schedule for primary data collection
• Conduct systems analysis in close collaboration with ALC and by engaging with client staff in Pemba and other stakeholders as needed
• Compile information for systems mapping (desk-based)
• Ensure information and documentation related to the assignment is consistently stored on client’s corporate SharePoint
• Actively contribute to knowledge management and internal dissemination of research findings, including by participating in internal and external webinars and by jointly with ALC producing a monthly internal newsletter to disseminate information about the activities undertaken
• Coordinate with the community reporting/livelihood/community security team to ensure data is collected as planned during field missions
• Enter and code data within the prescribed template
• Help conduct listening sessions with local communities in the field
• Conduct other research related activities, such as monitoring of events and media articles and documentation through photography
• Support the analysis of narratives, challenges and opportunities in selected

Expected output

• Regular and high-quality primary qualitative data collection
• Excel matrix populated with systems mapping data
• Excel matrix populated with deep listening (community monitoring) data
• Minimum 5x sensemaking sessions organised jointly with the client team including the Head of Solutions Mapping and the ALC – to validate findings with communities and stakeholders
• Minimum 5x co-creation sessions organised jointly with the client team including the Head of Solutions Mapping and the ALC – to distil programmatic recommendations from the research findings
• Analytical input to communication products (internal and external)
• Continued internal and external awareness raising about the project’s nature and purpose
• Identification of lessons learned

Project Reporting

• Report the progress biweekly to the Head of Solutions Mapping. Availability to report to Senior Management and other personnel as requested.

Key Competencies

• High level of organization and ability to prioritise actions under time constraints
• Very strong analytical skills, especially relating to the ability to discern patterns and trends in qualitative data (interviews)
• Active listening skills
• Good skills in written communication
• High level of data and computer literacy
• Understanding of conflict sensitivity and do-no-harm
• Very high level of autonomy and pro-activity
• Excellent team worker, ability to constructively communicate with co-workers
• Curiosity and willingness to learn on the job

Team Management

• This role has no team management responsibility

Further Information

• Experience in qualitative data collection and primary data collection, ideally in an armed conflict or post-conflict context
• Experience in coding and analysis of qualitative data
• Experience in project management in the development, peace or humanitarian sector
• Demonstrated understanding of conflict sensitivity in research
• Proactivity, autonomy, and ability to effectively communicate within a diverse team
• Good interpersonal and networking skills
• Computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel,PowerPoint)
• Experience working with international organisations, within our outside of Mozambique
• Experience in project design and/or implementation in livelihoods, food systems, basic services, or infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated interest in sociology and social psychology
• Fluency in English and Portuguese
• Proficiency in Makuhwa, Makonde, Mwani, Kimuani, Makue and/or Spanish

How to apply

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