Research & Insights – Manager

Responsibilities

• Thought Leadership: Develop and publish resources, thought leadership materials, and diverse content to manage learnings, integrate ecosystem building, and strengthen the nonprofit and philanthropy narratives.
• Team and Project Management: Manage professional development, supervise and mentor the team with a GEDI (gender, equity, diversity, and inclusion) lens; ensure team development towards high-quality impactful delivery; and nurture a culture of continuous learning.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: Manage multi-stakeholder projects; foster collaboration through insights-driven approaches; leverage diverse stakeholder perspectives to develop tools and resource.
• Convenings and Facilitation: Lead the conceptualization and facilitation of ecosystem events to engage diverse ecosystem actors toward insight-led dialogue and action.
• Proposal Writing and Fund Raising: Support the organization with developing proposals and anchoring relationship management.

Skillset

• Work Experience: Individuals with 10-12 years of work experience in an analytical field (e.g., management consulting, strategy department, impact evaluation, quantitative data analytics).
• Educational Background: A postgraduate degree with an interdisciplinary inclination (e.g., business administration, public policy/ administration, economics) is a must; an excellent academic record is a plus.
• Team Management: Prior experience in leading teams of 4-6 individuals to deliver on research and insights projects is a must.
• Written & Communication skills: Brings strong structure and organization to written and verbal content and can frame concepts effectively for different target audience.
• Project Management: Consistently meets deadlines, effectively manages time, across several complex projects, and identifies/resolves conflicts or roadblocks independently; is adaptable, proactive, and operates with a sense of efficiency, clarity and foresight.
• Research & Data Analytics: Prioritizes structures and organizes the information effectively, using spreadsheets or data analysis tools where needed and ensuring adequate depth and breadth of perspectives; draws accurate results from the information gathered, within the theme.
• Relationship Management: Engages external stakeholders with trust and confidence and can manage multiple relationships independently towards several goals/ projects/ deliverables.
• Dissemination Capabilities: Demonstrated experience in managing projects where research is leveraged for visual and data-rich storytelling, narrative building, and digital design.
• Soft Skills: Practices attentive and active listening to accurately restate the opinions of others even when they disagree; humility to learn given the diverse skills needed in an evolving field; ability to deal with ambiguity and exhibit an entrepreneurial mindset); a passion for the development sector and the communities we serve is a must.