Senior Specialist Social Scientist

1 week ago

Pretoria, South Africa Praesignis (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Minimum Functional Requirements**
- Specific accountabilities will include, but may extend beyond the following:
**People**
- Effectively lead and manage team of diverse team of researchers.
- Engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of the job.
- Effectively network and build collaborative relationships to enable the effective resolution of bottlenecks including difficult having difficult conversations.

**Processes and Governance**
- Lead in developing the parameters of studies and oversee the analysis and execution of these studies.
- Strengthen the significance of these projects by contributing expertise of the field.
- Familiarity with published research and experience with designing and conducting different types of studies including benchmarking, meta-analysis, program design, monitoring and evaluation including impact related studies.
- Spearhead additional social science projects, educate research staff on development of research plans, allocate research activities and oversee implementation of tasks.
- Create and use methods for measuring and evaluating human behaviour e.g. behaviour measures, questionnaires, assessments using relevant technology.
- Follow emerging social science research and current events to develop more comprehensive understanding of human behaviour and inform further directions of studies to be conducted in relation to of the future.
- Write academic articles detailing the background, development, execution, results and conclusions of studies, and submit at least three articles per year to social science journals.
- Contribute critical knowledge to research proposals development, recommend information and insights to be included and approve final drafts before submission.
- Review studies conducted by other social scientists for errors in reliability, validity and other strength factors relevant for the study.
- Recommend new research, monitoring and evaluation digital tools and methodologies that may improve speed of research delivery.
- Recommend and adopt research technologies and use digital approaches to data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Develop and review policies that impacts human participation to ensure adherence to POPIA act.

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**Financial**
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

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**Leadership Attributes**
- Strong leadership teams consist of individuals who collectively bring a diverse skills and attributes set that complements one another. Notwithstanding, every potential leader should display a set of core leadership attributes in addition to the role specific skills and attributes.

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