QUANTITATIVE RESEARCHER

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Outline India is a research and M&E firm focusing on data collection and geared towards evidence-based decision making. We are committed to strengthening the design of programs and interventions by conducting needs assessments, formative research, and monitoring and evaluation studies.

Outline India focuses on catalyzing the work of academics, think tanks, corporate social responsibility arms, not for profits, funders and the Indian Government. In the last 10 years, we have worked on over

100 evaluations in 26 states and union territories, over 8000+ villages, representing 4.5 million stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, settings, and sectors, with the aim to include their needs, opinions, and views to draft and inform the work of our partners and policymakers in a better way. We have recently commenced operations in Nepal.

OPPORTUNITY: Full Time Responsibilities:

Proposal

• Secondary research and sampling for proposals.

• Planning and budgeting for field surveys.

Fieldwork planning and execution

• Developing, coding and deploying of survey tools using CAPI programs like Survey CTO.

• Review of survey tools received from client and translation of the same.

• Assist the research team in developing training material for the field team.

  • Travel to field for the purpose of training and monitoring fieldwork (on hold during covid19).

  • Training field team on the usage of CAPI on tablets (virtual during covid19).

• Coordination with the field team to ensure quality data checks.

Data checks and analysis

• Management and monitoring of datasets on a regular basis.

  • Oversee daily data collection activities and ensure adherence to data quality protocols

• Data cleaning

• Quantitative analysis and visualization

• Assist in writing reports.

Eligibility Criteria:

Essential:

• Strong knowledge of quantitative methods of data collection and the ability to analyse data.

• Experience of working with STATA is mandatory.

  • Familiarity with Quantitative software packages (e.g. SPSS, R).

• Master's Degree in Economics or a related field.

• Fluency in English and Hindi (knowledge of any other regional language will be valuable).

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience in using digital data collection platforms and in cleaning datasets