Research Analyst

• Own assigned research projects or workstreams from initiation through delivery.
• Develop work plans and budgets, manage timelines, coordinate inputs and research activities, and ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Lead quantitative research activities from research design and measurement approaches through analysis and dissemination.
• Ensure research activities and outputs meet standards for rigor, quality, and research ethics.
• Develop and maintain reproducible analytical workflows with organized code, version control, and research documentation.
• Develop, program, test, and deploy survey instruments and other research tools.
• Prepare and maintain research datasets using reproducible data management practices.
• Analyze and synthesize quantitative, qualitative, and relevant geospatial data.
• Translate analytical findings into data visualizations, briefs, reports, presentations, and technical documentation.
• Develop understanding of Spark’s monitoring systems and use monitoring data for process evaluations and organizational learning.
• Strengthen team-wide research systems, tools, templates, and quality standards.
• Collaborate across research and program teams to generate useful evidence for decision-making.
• Report to the Senior Research Director.

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