Senior Research and Development Consultant

Research and Innovation Specialist

Elevate Your Impact Through Strategic Insights:

We are a global leader in delivering cutting-edge solutions to clients across industries.

Our team of over 4,500 professionals operates in multiple countries, leveraging state-of-the-art technology and expertise to elevate business impact and strategic decision-making.

Our dynamic culture prioritizes continuous learning, collaboration, and equal opportunity for all.

About Our Team:

We provide strategic guidance and data-driven insights to organizations, analyzing market trends, consumer behavior, and business data.

We work across diverse industries and sectors, helping decision-makers make informed choices that positively impact their organization's performance.

• Lead research on public health areas such as Maternal and Child health, Immunization, FP, NTDs.

• Manage databases and repositories, ensuring regular updates.

• Have good knowledge of data management, analysis, and monitoring & evaluation activities.

• Ability to lead and execute research and MLE activities, including quantitative surveys and qualitative impact stories.

• Plan, create, write, edit, review, and coordinate monthly reports, presentations, dashboards, visualizations.

• Develop and deploy strategic tools and frameworks for conducting primary, secondary research, data collection, and M&E.

• Collect, evaluate, and synthesize information from multiple sources, summarizing it in word reports and presentations.

• Track latest developments, trends, and literature, identifying relevant sources of information and presenting data succinctly.

• Exhibit flexibility in moving across development and preparation of multiple deliverables – dashboards, presentations, technical briefs, research papers, abstracts etc.

• Conduct quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency of data included in documents, comparing against source material and resolving inconsistencies with the authoring team.

• Mentor and support reportees in executing various deliverables, optimizing team bandwidth.

• Manage and lead key client accounts and engagement, providing proactive solutioning on business problems.

• Support other teams when needed, including working on business development opportunities with senior leadership.

What We're Looking For:

We seek individuals who enjoy working on complex problems, collaborating to create transformative change in healthcare and disease-related research, Nutrition, Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Climate and health, and Gender Equity.

The candidate must be prepared to work across diverse issues/audiences, including academia, NGOs, government, corporates, and private bodies.

S/he will be a solid team player, with demonstrated ability to work flexibly, efficiently, and diplomatically in a fast-paced environment.

We require a hypothesis-driven approach and analytical rigor to develop sound strategies and implementation plans.

Key Requirements:

• Professional experience of 7-12 years in public health research in India and globally.
• Masters/ MA in Public Health
• Excellent consulting, research, MLE, data analysis, and writing capabilities.
• Experience with strategy execution, measurement, review, and adjustment is preferable.
• Excellent oral, facilitation, and written communication skills.
• A mix of team player and a leader.
• Past Experience of handling a team.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative knowledge with ability to extract appropriate data.
• Knowledge of analytical and visualization software, e.g. STATA, R, Atlas ti, Power BI etc.
• Ability to conduct literature reviews and systematic reviews.
• Ability to be independent and work effectively across barriers such as language, culture, and distance.
• Excellent skills with Microsoft Office applications