Research Coordinator

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
Research Coordinator - Sustainable Food Systems

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**Designation offered**
Research Coordinator
- Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems

**Reporting to**
Programme Associate

**Location**
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh

**Job Summary**

India stands at a complex challenge of ensuring universal nutritional security for an increasing yet largely deprived population in a rapidly changing climate. This needs action beyond producing more food - we need to evolve what we eat and how we produce, process and distribute our food.

Natural Farming is a sustainable agriculture practice that has gained a lot of traction in the Indian agriculture space recently. However, the roadmap for scaling up natural farming has to be driven by data and evidence. In this context, CEEW has embarked on a Five-Year Longitudinal Assessment of the Community-managed Natural Farming Programme in Andhra Pradesh (APCNF). The APCNF programme is managed and executed by the Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and seeks to improve farmer livelihoods, environmental and nutritional outcomes through the adoption of natural farming practices.

The successful applicant will assist the team members in undertaking stakeholder engagement and coordination and robust quantitative and qualitative analysis, especially in Andhra Pradesh’s sustainable agriculture ecosystem (government, implementers, researchers, etc.). In addition to the duties and responsibilities outlined below, the Research Coordinator should be prepared, as and when necessary, to take on additional responsibilities and respond to events and developments that cannot be anticipated easily.

**Responsibilities and Duties**

**Research coordination in Andhra Prades**
- Work closely with the Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) team to enable smooth coordination between field partners and the research team.
- Coordination on field activities with the field partner, lab partners and research coordinators for timely planning, implementation and monitoring of field activities.
- Support RySS and the field team in documenting the tacit knowledge — critical for the replication and scale-up
- Support establishment and operations of a research coordination committee to align various research studies proposed or underway at RySS to ensure that each research piece builds on and feeds into the growing body of knowledge.
- Identification and keeping tabs on other ongoing research works on APCNF and sustainable agriculture in Andhra Pradesh.

**Research**
- Assist the research teams on qualitative and quantitative applied research on varied food system issues. Such workstreams include but are not limited to (i) identification of optimal research question(s), (ii) designing the research approach/framework (iii) design, development and execution of qualitative and quantitative primary surveys (this includes designing survey instruments, data quality checks, monitoring field activities, and analysis of the survey data), (iv) if required, systematic literature reviews (v) conducting stakeholder consultations, (vi) conducting the relevant analyses using appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative tools (e.g. MS Excel, STATA, etc.), and (vii) presenting the analyses in a coherent narrative in different formats.
- Travel to field sites to conduct fieldwork including focus group discussions, interviews, meetings, training or gather primary information
- Proactively supporting team in effectively operationalizing the CEEW’s Arc of Learning
- Regularly track policy measures taken by the government and its implementation status related to sustainable agriculture and sustainable food systems in India (particularly, Andhra Pradesh).
- Write high-quality research reports, publish in leading peer-reviewed journals and generate other knowledge products for the different audience such as blogs, policy briefs in regular intervals
- Establishing and managing relationships with project counterparts from CEEW’s partners

**Project/Programme Assistance**
- Support effective outreach of research outputs through coordination with the outreach team, engagement with a broader network of stakeholders, and concerned policymakers
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