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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Title:</span><span> Senior </span>Research Manager</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Location and Work Authorization:</span> Nairobi, Kenya, or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with current and ongoing work authorization. Visa sponsorship may be offered for candidates interested in living and working in Kenya. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Position:</span> Full-time </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Posted on:</span> 18 May 2026</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Application deadline:</span> 8 June 2026, 6 pm EAT (applications will be reviewed as they are submitted)</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">PxD seeks a dynamic, creative, and self-motivated <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Senior Research Manager</span> to join a high-performing, flexible, and non-hierarchical team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to PxD’s new workstreams, collaborate closely with PxD and affiliated researchers, and play a key role in testing and refining innovative ideas. We are looking for a proactive self-starter with strong research management skills and the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Senior Research Manager will manage a portfolio of projects across PxD programs in Africa focused on designing, testing, and scaling impactful and inclusive digital agricultural initiatives. While anchored in research and evidence generation, this role will work fluidly across service delivery and research functions, ensuring that insights are embedded into program implementation, operational decision-making, and government-facing engagements.</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Senior Research Manager will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to build sustainable systems that improve agricultural services for farmers, institutionalize processes to ensure service longevity, and support the integration of solutions that positively impact smallholder farmers. In practice, this means not only leading research (rapid user testing, A/B tests, experiments, and evaluations) but also supporting program refinement, operational troubleshooting, and strategic decision-making across PxD initiatives.</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Responsibilities (including but not limited to):</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Work with relevant stakeholders and experts to identify learning objectives and resources available for multiple projects and manage the implementation of research activities, ensuring that projects receive appropriate input from internal and external stakeholders and adhere to appropriate rigor, policies, timelines, and budgets.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Collaborate with team leadership across research and service delivery to scope, design, pilot, and scale evidence-backed digital agriculture services, ensuring research insights are translated into operational improvements.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Interpret and contextualize external and internal evidence and insights for PxD programs.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Guide teams on the use of evidence-based approaches and ensure that PxD maintains the standards for technical appropriateness and rigor.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Oversee data management and analysis for the project and survey creation, A/B testing and implementation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Oversee documentation of research activities, research results, and rationale for decisions made.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Develop and fill in frameworks with specific information to identify program insights.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Manage partner relations and work with external stakeholders for successful project implementation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Develop and ensure compliance with IRB protocols for human subject research and relevant in-country research permission requirements.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Contribute to funding proposals and project reports.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Contribute to the strategic planning and global functioning of the organization.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Provide close mentorship and guidance to Associate and Manager-level staff.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Operate flexibly across research, program management, and service delivery functions, contributing where needed to ensure program success beyond strictly defined research activities.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Contribute and support internal and external communications to disseminate project results and research findings, including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Contribute to PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Qualifications &amp; Experience</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Master’s degree or PhD in economics, agricultural economics, public policy, or a closely related field.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Professional experience working on at least three large projects involving the design and management of rigorous research and/or evidence-based programs in African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, or Ethiopia, preferred).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to draw inferences from data to identify pathways for program improvement.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Adept at consuming large amounts of academic and scientific literature as well as other technical information, synthesizing key findings, and applying takeaways to program and research design.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Deep understanding of economics and randomized evaluations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Excellent knowledge of Stata, R, or similar software for data analysis.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience in survey design using SurveyCTO/ODK or similar tools.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong grasp of the research &amp; 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We don’t make decisions based on gender, gender identity, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristics that are unrelated to the role. We understand that everyone has different lifestyles and we accommodate flexible working to make sure you are as productive and happy as you can be. </em></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>We will use any personal data you provide for recruitment purposes only.</em></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About PxD:</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">PxD is a global non-profit that harnesses the power of technology, data science, and behavioral economics to provide targeted information to farmers in low and middle-income countries. Providing the right information to the right people in the right way and at the right time increases incomes, protects the environment, and improves well-being. We are evidence-based: we test our interventions with randomized controlled trials to prove our impact and cost-effectiveness, to simultaneously learn from and improve our service, and to demonstrate our value to funders and partners. There are few programmes in international development that are as demonstrably cost-effective as ours. </span></p>",
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