Research Manager at Shamiri Institute

Shamiri Institute is seeking an energetic, diligent, and self-motivated team player to join our team as a Research Manager to be based in our Nairobi office.

The Research team at Shamiri is tasked with the production of scientific research, primarily in the form of research articles, to test the efficacy of our interventions and contribute to the growing literature on mental health in Sub-Saharan Africa. We want to make sure our work is informed by a strong data backbone and pride ourselves on being a research-driven organization.

The Research Manager will take on the primary responsibility for planning, facilitating, and managing the organization’s research projects. S/he will collaborate with departmental heads and Shamiri’s leadership team to provide strategic input, guidance and to execute on all research projects, directly contributing to and or managing research goals, planning, design, reporting and training.  It is important—and in fact essential—that the Research Manager be well versed with human subject research, research ethics, data safety and management procedures, research methodologies, study protocol development and pre-registration, and scientific manuscript development and preparation.

In addition to the production of scientific research, the research team ensures successful implementation of an end-to-end impact evaluation process (create, capture, and communicate impact) across all our programs and offerings. As such, the Research Manager will also ensure analysis of all impact data, segmented based on internal/external needs/enquiries, generate actionable insights and collaborates closely with relevant stakeholders to close the loop and to ensure that insights may be implemented.

The Research Manager will report to the CEO.