Senior Manager Research at Kantar

Job description

The Purpose Of The Role

The Manager – Kantar Public Farmer research and evaluation is responsible for managing high quality primary research and evaluation work with farmers across the East Africa region primarily for development organizations, leading our business and our methodological innovation in this area. This is a permanent and pensionable position.

KEY OUTCOMES

• Managing projects in and out of field from proposals through questionnaire design, analysis to delivery of insightful, well produced and actionable deliverables.
• Build our business among clients interested in in-depth understanding and insight on small-scale farmers.
• Providing strategic & relevant insights to clients through strong reporting and story telling.
• Working to innovate around methods in this space to bring the very best to our clients.

CAPABILITIES

The winning candidate will have both:-

• Strong academic and thematic background and expertise in the agricultural sector
• Strong understanding of research and evaluation method, including quantitative methods, and ideally including methods of assessing impact of farm-level interventions such as ex ante analysis etc
• Ability to work well in a commercial environment, where we work fast to turnaround high quality work, and deliver to deadlines, and ensure a very high level of client satisfaction
• Agricultural economist or related background and qualifications
• At least 5 years of working experience on and leading agricultural research or evaluation with farmers.

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DISCLAIMER

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If you haven’t heard from Kantar within 2 weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful for this position.