TEGA Specialist- Maternity Cover(Ethiopia)
Job Description
Who we are
Girl Effect is an international non-profit that builds media that girls want, trust and need.
From chat-bots to chat-shows and TV dramas to tech, our content is reaching millions of girls in Africa and Asia to make choices and changes in their lives. Igniting their confidence to act differently at a time that can define their future.
We create safe spaces for girls, sharing facts, and answering questions about health, nutrition, education, relationships and so much more. And we use innovative technology so we can reach girls at scale. We arm girls with the skills to negotiate and redefine what they are told is possible, so every girl can choose to be in control of her body, her health, her learning and livelihood.
When a girl unlocks her power to make different choices that change her life, it inspires others to do so too. She starts a ripple effect that impacts her family, her community, her country. That’s the Girl Effect.
About TEGA
Adolescent girls are one of the hardest groups to reach in societies. The challenges they face are often under-reported or described on their behalf. Without the inclusion of their perspective, solutions designed to support them aren’t as effective as they could be.
Co-created with girls, TEGA (Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors) is Girl Effect’s mobile based research tool that allows girls to collect real-time insights into the lives of their peers. This unique approach, unlocks the open and honest conversations that might otherwise be lost or not included in traditional research.
TEGA networks have gathered data from girls and communities on topics including nutrition, economic empowerment, health and wellbeing, vaccines, mobile access, social media and education. This girl-talk method is especially useful when researching sensitive topics like HIV or sexual health.
Context of the Role
The aim of this role is to successfully manage the TEGA network setup and implementation process in different regions of Ethiopia and to manage all research projects conducted through the TEGA network and TEGA activities.
The Project and Evidence Specialist, TEGA, will work in close collaboration with the TEGA team, Evidence team, Safeguarding team and Finance and Operations teams – both in Ethiopia and across other Girl Effect offices. The Project and Evidence Specialist will also work closely with the organisation that implements the TEGA project in different areas across Ethiopia.
What You’ll Do
Project Management
Develop and lead a country implementation plan for TEGA, including procurement and management of local partners, local research agencies and translators.
Build and implement a strong project management process for the local TEGA team ensuring that reporting tools are in place and fit for purpose.
Liaise with the Operations and Finance teams on contract management and invoice processing using Salesforce.
Track teams, agencies and local partners’ deliverables and flag to team if they are off track in terms of timeframe and/or budget.
Ensure comprehensive budgets are prepared reflecting project plan requirements
Create and socialise a country specific Risk Assessment and Safeguarding Agreement, ensuring all stakeholders understand, agree to and sign before project implementation.
Ensure ways of working within the local team are agreed, and that there are consistent communication channels within the team and with our stakeholders.
General support and coordination, managing a TEGA network calendar, ensuring it’s kept up to date and that all team members are aware of any changes, and project meetings.
Track and monitor individual donor budgets, and overall TEGA country budget
Ensure Quality Assurance, conducting field visits to our implementing partner and support in the organisation of TEGA research projects and/or training.
Ensure Knowledge sharing from your network feeds into the Central TEGA team by way of adding to the Project Management Guides, joining regular Project Management calls and sharing key TEGA network success and challenges where possible.
Evidence management
Work closely with Girl Effect evidence teams and product leads to design research studies and ensure that TEGA research methods are fit-for-purpose, girl-centered, appropriate for different cultural and social contexts and effectively generating insights for internal and external end-users.
Work closely with technical evidence leads to quality assurance research methods, tools, sampling design, data management, analysis and reporting.
Ensure that Girl Effect’s ethical and safeguarding standards are upheld, and that field implementation is conducted to the highest standards, through training and oversight of field research partners in-country.
Carrying out literature reviews on specific themes and subjects relating to brands when needed.
Manage a number of qualitative formative, monitoring and evaluation research projects to inform Girl Effect brand strategy and creative content development.
Work with evidence colleagues to ensure TEGA research contributes to the implementation of Girl Effect Ethiopia’s brand and networks monitoring framework.
Support the evidence team in communicating TEGA data in an engaging way, through innovative use of storytelling, data visualisation and other communication approaches, to drive research uptake and learning and support evidence-based decision-making across Girl Effect teams
TEGA support and training
Design training/ refresher training of TEGAs and local partners
Manage the TEGA professional development process and provide quality feedback to TEGAs
Oversee TEGA database and collate TEGA portfolios for Market Research Society qualifications
Involve TEGAs in research design, survey design in a systematic and coordinated way
Expected results/outcomes
These will be finalised in collaboration with the selected candidate but are likely to include:
Successful management of the newly established TEGA networks and monitoring of the already established 3 TEGA networks, meaning the TEGAs successfully complete their MRS accreditation.
The successful development and updating of project management tools.
The successful development, implementation and analysis of TEGA research projects.
Cultivated strong relationships with, and successful coordination of, the relevant Girl Effect teams and Implementing Agencies, tracking their progress against timeframe and deliverables, escalating to Senior Manager TEGA and the team as/when risks arise.
Who You Are
Experience in complex project management and coordination, including implementation and monitoring, partner relationships, communication and networking.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop strong relationships with external organisations, contractors and senior stakeholders.
Masters degree or equivalent in psychology, sociology, anthropology or other social science
Substantial experience in applied research or insights generation, ideally working agency side and serving large scale clients.
Strong experience in deploying innovative qualitative research methods and conducting data analysis – able to scope out appropriate approaches, oversee research delivery and quality assure data collection
Experience with innovative, participatory research approaches, and in particular of working with young people and/ or girls specifically
Skilled in producing high quality and engaging research presentations and briefings for diverse audiences
Experience delivering training, mentoring or capacity building young researchers, interns or volunteers is desirable.
Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity about the cultures and gender issues within which Girl Effect operates.
Literate in mobile tech development.
Excellent written and fluent spoken English & Amharic. Additional local languages are a plus.
High attention to detail.
Experience working in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds.
A background in gender or familiarity with gender/girl-centred programming and research is desirable.
What else you should know
As we continue to scale and grow – we are hugely ambitious for our future and we are looking for people who are driven to change the world for girls.
Our teams are a diverse mix across sectors (non-profit and commercial) and specialisms (from Brand and Creative through to Gender and Insight). You’ll learn and grow in an environment that will challenge you to think and work with a fresh perspective. In turn, you can expect to work somewhere where you will be stretched and developed in your role, a place where you can build your career and work with talented, engaged people committed to our cause.
Girl Effect is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to building an organisation that is increasingly representative of the communities that we serve. To this end, due regard will be paid to recruiting candidates with diverse professional, academic and cultural backgrounds.