Job Title: Research Assistant
Job Location: Bangalore
About Phicus: Phicus Social Solutions is a not-for-profit (Section 8) company, set up in 2012 and headquartered in Bangalore. Our mission is to grow and support social-sector organizations, leaders and programs to ensure large-scale, sustainable, and replicable social impact. Our solutions span two domains: organization and leadership development and program capacity building. The program capacity building vertical provides solutions in: applied research, program design and set up; evaluation and documentation & reporting. We are sector agnostic and work across India with stakeholders in the public, private and civil society realms. Highlights of our work is available at www.phicus.org.
Role Description: This role will be required to support the program capacity building team in executing program design, monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment projects. Specifically, the role is expected to,
- Carry out primary research where ever applicable, through focussed group discussions and interviews – this may involve travel to remote locations
- Secondary and desk research
- Analysis of data and report writing in the context of specific impact evaluation projects
- Support multiple projects
- Willing to work across domains
Criteria:
- A Postgraduate with a social science background
- 1 or 2 years of relevant experience in the social impact space is preferred
- Must have excellent research methods skills such as-proposal development, program ideation, sampling methods and development of data collection tools, primary (field) research, quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and report writing
Contact Person: Interested candidates must send their detailed CV along with 2 references and 2 writing samples to kadambari@phicus.org
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