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Senior Research and Operations Manager

Common Goal Research Center

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)

• Partner with executive leadership to set organizational strategy and translate it into annual operating plans, KPIs, and resource allocation frameworks. • Lead institutional budget planning cycles in collaboration with Directors, including forecasting, cost control, and financial performance reviews. • Direct end-to-end operations across research, program delivery, and partnerships managing cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment against strategic priorities. • Cultivate and steward relationships with clients, donors, and institutional partners; lead proposal reviews, partnership negotiations, and funding agreement processes. • Oversee organizational research agenda including impact evaluations, po

Research Associate

Rain Barrel Communications

Aug 2024 - Current (2 years)

Country of Focus >> Eastern and Southern Africa Region. Support research activities including proposal writing, experimental design, community engagement, data collection/analysis, ethical approvals, and stakeholder engagements in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region for all research projects.

Research Consultant

MAGENTA

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023 (5 months)

Country of Focus: Jordan, Mali, Mexico, Iraq, Tajikistan, and Tunisia • Advise senior management on the implications of proposed and existing regulations and policies, • Work with institutional officials to develop new ethical guidance, policies, and procedures;

Global Research Compliance Consultant

Busara

Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 (7 months)

Country of Focus>>>Kenya, India, Nigeria, Fiji, Malawi, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Philipines, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. • Advise senior management on the implications of proposed and existing regulations and policies, • Ensure Busara’s research complies with the Code of Federal Regulations, HRPP/IRB Policies and Procedures. • Evaluate HRPP/IRB Policies and Procedures and implement quality improvements to improve HRPP/IRB efficiency • Work with institutional officials to develop new ethical guidance, policies, and procedures;

Operations and Research Coordinator

Results for Development

Oct 2022 - May 2023 (8 months)

Country of focus>>> UK, USA, Tanzania, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh. • Providing administrative, coordination, and project management of hub programs. • Support on design and implementation of the Hub’s policies by establishing and maintaining standards, systems, and procedures; • Collate Duty of Care travel risk assessments and associated documentation for all HLR studies field trips and travel: • Manage a research-wide risk register: • Liaise with the Procurement & Contracting Manager and FCDO Programme Manager and ensure compliance. • Create and maintain the central repository of evidence for data protection compliance, aligned with the data protection framework.

Research Consultant

EdTech Hub

May 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Country of Focus>>> Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Tanzania. Provide technical input to the development of an ethical framework for priority setting in Edtech research, and associated activities, including internal policies on ethics review and approvals, coordination with external Ethics Review Committees, ERC, in Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Tanzania.

Senior Research Compliance Officer

Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Sep 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year)

• Monitoring compliance with the GDPR and other data protection laws, developing internal data protection policies, awareness-raising, training, and audits. • Promoting adoption and use of knowledge management in the development of activities geared towards promoting friendly practices through OSF optimization. • Ensuring IRB applications are received, tracked and approved in a timely manner and supports staff and Principal Investigators throughout the ethics certification process. • Provide daily management of initiatives supporting the implementation of the Research Compliance Program; including Institutional Review Boards, IRB approvals. • Support in designing of projects in the research and innovation division.

Science Educator

Center for Open Science

Oct 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 3 months)

• Grow the open science community through collaboration and information sharing. • Share perspectives on the COS blog and join the online conversation about open science • Help provide training for the OSF and other tools that support reproducible practices. • Partner with COS to promote open science practices at meetings and conferences

Research Compliance Officer

Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Sep 2017 - Sep 2021 (4 years 1 month)

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all research permits and IRBs, working with field teams to ensure that they submit all necessary documentation and are fully compliant once fieldwork begins • Serve as the primary person responsible for designing and communicating field data collection requirements, protocols, and best practices • Train all field teams on proper data collection in the field, ensuring that they have the tools and equipment necessary to comply • Design, communicate, and monitor Busara’s field data security protocols, which includes protection of both electronic and paper data • Collating lessons learned, best practices and proven innovations in design, implementation, reporting, and disseminating learnings to

Operations Project Lead

Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 1 month)

• Managing quality assurance for field projects • Handling ethical approvals for projects • Monitoring existing processes and analyzing their effectiveness. • Creating strategies to improve productivity and efficiency. • Improve and create processes and policies that support the organization’s mission and increase efficiency. • Monitoring and putting into place security strategies for both the office and project teams • Support international expansion in the region. • In collaboration with HR, Finance, Procurement, and other departments, ensure proper onboarding of new staff and adherence to existing policies and regulations. • Serve as primary liaison in addressing legal issues e.g. governing instruments, partnerships, licensing, and agre

Research Assistant

NORC at the university of Chicago

May 2016 - Apr 2017 (1 year)

• Provide support to senior level technical staff in designing and implementing evaluation projects and data collection and analysis activities. • Coordinate project activities and events, including setting up meetings and conference calls and liaising with consultants and local data collection firms • Support the design of survey instruments and training materials, coordination of and assistance to interviewer training activities, and sample design and selection. • Conduct literature reviews • Undertake data quality reviews of survey data with detailed documentation of results, and analysis of primary and secondary data (quantitative and qualitative) including preparation of reports.

Brand Auditor

NielsenIQ

Mar 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 2 months)

• Concept testing, product testing, activations and events evaluation. • Quality control in the field and capacity building for data collection team. • Field budgeting and cost controls in the field and reporting to field coordinator. • Designing of research tools, setting up, conducting and recording the outcomes of the research- both qualitative and quantitative

Research Assistant

Ipsos

Feb 2014 - Feb 2015 (1 year 1 month)

• Project Planning, identify the project needs and prepare fieldwork budgets cost controls in the field and reporting to field coordinator. • Managed and maintained the implementation of all field related policies and procedures by recruiting and training field staff as supervised by field coordinator and managed the application and interviewing process. • Quality control through report writing in the field by accompanying, back checking and spot checking. • Assist in preparation of field manuals, stimulus materials and all other technical input required by field coordinator and project manager/research executive

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