Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Scoping and collating literature reviews
• Collecting, cleaning, formatting, and analysing primary/secondary data using statistical software (SPSS / R)
• Managing and running research-driven programming and events
• Preparing documentation for research ethics board reviews or other project related applications
• Preparing interview/focus group questionnaires
• Assisting in the design of survey instruments and experiments, including sampling strategies, questionnaire development, and data-collection protocols
• Managing some aspects of research administration including staff briefings, project progress monitoring, and data quality controls
• Engaging and managing stakeholders across workstreams
• Attending project meetings, briefings, and subject-matter-expertise seminars as necessary
• Summarising project results and preparing progress reports for the PI and funding agencies
• Writing papers, articles, reports, chapters, and preparing presentations for internal, stakeholder, and public consumption
• Presenting findings or analyses for internal, stakeholder, and public consumption as necessary

Ad-hoc Responsibilities:

• Assisting with events and outreach associated with research workstreams, such as rapporteuring, planning, and hosting conferences and workshops
• Project-related coordination and other miscellaneous administrative tasks including but not limited to budget management, knowledge management, website management, stakeholder management, procurement tasks, record-keeping, database maintenance and scheduling

Qualifications

• Have a strong academic track record, including a Bachelor degree in a social sciences discipline from a reputable university
• Have a foundation in quantitative methods 
• Be familiar with statistical and programming software (especially SPSS, Qualtrics, and/or R) and data analysis  

Additionally, you will be favourably considered if you:

• Possess strong English language communication skills, with an ability to write in a clear, engaging, coherent, and expedited fashion
• Exhibit keen interest in research pertaining to social issues, sentiments, and policies
• Demonstrate a willingness and ability to be self-taught, especially when it comes to quantitative methods
• Possess experience in conducting survey fieldwork or other forms of research data collection
• Possess other relevant work experience
• Demonstrate strong commitment to meeting deadlines and have a track record of producing work that reflects a maturity of thought
• Are highly attentive to detail and committed to data accuracy and quality
• Are independent and initiated

More Information

Location: Bukit Timah Campus

Organization: Institute of Policy Studies

Department : Institute of Policy Studies

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID : 33468