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Research Manager / Senior Research Manager

LEAD at Krea University
Posted 3 months ago, valid for 8 days
Location

Pūth Kalān, North West Delhi, Delhi

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position requires a Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Data Science, Development Studies, or related fields.
  • Candidates must have 5-7 years of relevant experience for the Research Manager role, or 7-10 years for the Senior Research Manager position, with a focus on quantitative research and econometric analysis.
  • Key responsibilities include leading research design, developing sampling strategies, conducting advanced statistical analysis, and guiding junior researchers.
  • The role demands proficiency in Stata, R, or Python, with a strong emphasis on econometric skills and the ability to manage large datasets.
  • Salary details are not specified, but the position emphasizes a strong understanding of quantitative methods and the ability to communicate findings to non-technical audiences.


Key Responsibilities:

Lead quantitative research design forevaluations, diagnostics, baselines, endlines, longitudinal studies, and impactassessments.
Develop sampling strategies, power calculations, indicator frameworks, analysisplans, and econometric approaches.
Design and review survey tools, codebooks, data dictionaries, and qualityassurance protocols.
Clean, merge, structure, and manage large-scale primary and secondary datasets.
Conduct advanced statistical and econometric analysis, including regressionmodelling, difference-in-differences, propensity score matching, panel dataanalysis, heterogeneity analysis, and robustness checks.
Build analytical models for segmentation, scoring, prediction, targeting, ordecision-support frameworks, where relevant.
Use secondary datasets such as NSS, PLFS, NFHS, SECC, enterprise datasets,administrative MIS, or other public datasets for research and proposaldevelopment.
Prepare analytical tables, visualisations, dashboards, and technical notes.
Translate complex quantitative findings into clear research narratives forreports, decks, policy briefs, and donor-facing documents.
Support proposal development by designing credible methodologies, sample plans,analytical frameworks, and costing assumptions.
Guide junior researchers, Research Associates, interns, and field/data teams onquantitative methods and data quality.
Ensure reproducibility through clean syntax, documented workflows, versioncontrol of datasets, and proper data documentation.
Maintain ethical standards in data handling, anonymisation, confidentiality,and respondent protection.



Requirements


EssentialQualifications

 

Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, PublicPolicy, Data Science, Development Studies, Population Studies, or relatedfields.
For RM: 5–7 years of relevant experience inquantitative research, evaluation, analytics, or econometric analysis.
For SRM: 7–10 years of relevant experience, withdemonstrated technical leadership across multiple studies.
Strong understanding of quantitative researchmethods, survey design, sampling, and causal inference.
Strong econometric skills, including regressionanalysis and quasi-experimental methods.
Proficiency in Stata, R, or Python. Stata/Rstrongly preferred.
Ability to work with large datasets and produceclean, replicable analysis.
Strong analytical writing skills and ability toexplain technical findings to non-technical audiences.





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