Head of Research, Reflection Evaluating (Hybrid/Remote)

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Applicants will require a Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience, preferably PhD with practical experience with at least 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts incl. 4 years in senior role(s) successfully leading functions and managing teams.

Experience/Skills • Min. 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts incl. • Min. 4 years in senior role(s) successfully leading functions and managing teams. • Experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and/or organisations. • Comfort and confidence leading sophisticated research and evaluations. • People-and-user-centered approaches to research and evaluating. • Thoughtful familiarity with M&E/MEL/MERL approaches and practices. • A track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity.

Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating (Hybrid/Remote) KwaZulu Natal - South Africa, Johannesburg - Gauteng - South Africa, Western Cape - South Africa, Remote ENVIRONMENT LEAD research programmes & projects in a relatively new and exciting Innovation & Learning portfolio as the next Head of Research, Reflection & Evaluating sought by a Community Upliftment Programme based in Johannesburg.

You will explore and seek new knowledge and introducing whats valuable to the programme appropriately, manage research & evaluation assets while designing appropriate (often mixed methods) approaches and adapting these over time.

You must also have experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and/or organisations, thoughtful familiarity with M&E/MEL/MERL approaches and practices & a track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity.

DUTIES • Leading and developing approach(es) to identifying, creating, nurturing and sharing knowledge (know-how & know-that) for use across the network and ecosystem • Explore and seek new knowledge and introducing whats valuable to the programme appropriately. • Collaboratively question key assumptions. • Collaboratively identify, create, and package knowledge for use & sharing • Lead an asset-based orientation to knowledge. • Create, distil and/or package knowledge from peoples experience and expertise, with an orientation towards peoples agency & diversity, and positive deviance. • Co-create the network-wide conditions for more deeply reflective practice and evaluative thinking (with the rest of the Innovation & Learning portfolio) - • Reflective practice: asking questions & questioning assumptions about ones own work and ways of working (standing on the balcony outside the dance, double loop learning, reflexivity, etc.). • Evaluative thinking: an attitude of inquisitiveness and a belief in the value of evidence • Leading and developing approach(es) to researching and evaluating - • Lead and manage an iterative, multi-question, multi-year agenda focused on use/utilisation. • Build wider understanding across the programme of the nature and value of questioning, researching & evaluating incl. evaluating as integral to practice; and research as informed by & informing practice. • Lead the programme using research in evaluating and using both in learning. • Build and sustain research-practice partnerships to realise the programmes approach. • Manage research & evaluation assets. • Researching: Curiously and creatively formulate, prioritise, and inquire into questions with appropriate discipline(s) and diligence yielding conclusions and new questions. • Evaluating: Any systematic process to judge merit, worth or significance by combining evidence and values.

More specifically: Evaluation science is systematic inquiry into how, and how well, interventions aimed at changing the world work. • Leading scoping, designing and managing research and evaluation programmes and projects • Design appropriate (often mixed methods) approaches and adapting these over time. • Develop appropriate terms of reference and requests for proposal for independent evaluations. • Lead and manage research and/or evaluation programmes and/or projects. • Conduct research and/or evaluations.

REQUIREMENTS Qualifications • Minimum Masters Degree or equivalent with relevant experience; preferably PhD with practical experience. Advantageous • Fluency in one or more African languages. • Proficiency in/with • Tools suited to relevant research methods. • Developmental evaluation.