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  • Posted: May 22, 2018
    Deadline: Jun 10, 2018
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    Sightsavers is an international organisation that changes lives for the long term. We work in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. We do what we do because 80 per cent of blindness in the world is avoidable, and we think that’s astoundingly unfair. We do it becau...
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    Research Advisor

    Job description

    Location: Any country within East, Central and Southern Africa with a Sightsavers office - http://www.sightsavers.org/about-us/where-we-work/)

    Salary: Salary and terms and conditions based on location

    Sightsavers has an opportunity for a motivated and passionate Research Advisor with a strong interest in health and disability research to join its Policy & Strategic Programme Support team. The post holder will work with our global Research team and will be responsible for supporting research and other evidence generating activities within Sightsavers’ health, education and social inclusion programmes in East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA).

    The role is incredibly varied and the post holder will be as comfortable working with programme beneficiaries in the field as they are in formal settings with academic, civil society and government partners. The post-holder will maintain a diverse portfolio of work that spans the research cycle from identification of problems and developing funding applications, conducting research through to dissemination of results for programme, policy and academic purposes.

    The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated and driven research professional with excellent technical skills who is now looking for an opportunity for working in an inter-disciplinary environment to gain further practical and field based experience. They will be able to demonstrate their conviction to be involved with hands-on research processes and implementation work in an NGO context and for the right candidate, this role would provide an excellent platform for development.

    Candidates must have a postgraduate degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, social or behavioral sciences or a related discipline. They will have a good working knowledge of different research methods including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Candidates with a good knowledge of survey research, including a practical and well-organised approach to the analysis of survey data will be of particular interest.

    In addition, international travel for up to 16 weeks a year (often to rural locations) and level IV (fluency-speaking/reading/writing) English ability is required.

    Closing date: 10 June 2018

    Method of Application

    To apply, and for further details about the role, please download an application pack from

    Please download our application form and return the completed application form and equal opportunities form as two separate documents to jobs@sightsavers.org.

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