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Position Number: 684
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Salary Range: $60,696 - $72,865
Duration: Term 3 Years
Closing Date: November 16, 2008 at Midnight (Canadian EST)
Who Can Apply: IDRC employees only
How to Apply: Please complete the Online Application form.
Job Details

Investigating the Social and Economic Impact of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a five-year research project sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Managed by the telecentre.org Program at IDRC, and in partnership with the Center for Information & Society at the University of Washington, the project seeks to answers questions on observable impacts of providing ICT through public access venues such as libraries and telecentres; the magnitude of these impacts (and how they can be measured); as well as the relationship between the costs of providing public access to ICT and its benefits in developing and emerging regions of the world.               . 

The Research Officer, under the guidance of the Senior Program Officer and the Program Manager of telecentre.org, will participate in monitoring the execution of the project’s overall vision and strategy; coordinate and manage day-to-day communications between the project teams around the world; assist in the review and analysis of project outputs; organize and properly disseminate the project’s research outputs; provide support for meeting and workshop planning; as well as assist in the writing and editing of project reports.

Masters degree in one or more of the social sciences disciplines.

• Undertaking research (both primary and secondary data research)
• Maintaining and strenghtening individual and institutional partner relationships
• Administering competitive grant process is an asset
• Work experience in developing countries or in an academic institution is an asset

• Familiarity with socio-economic interventions and services offered through public access to ICT venues such as libraries and telecentres
• Strong knowledge of social science research designs (using both qualitative and quantitative approaches), particularly in ICT for development impact assessment methodologies
• Knowledge of IDRC programs, policies and operations is an asset

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, orally and in writing
• Superior planning, organizing, coordinating and building rapport skills under pressure
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to maintain mutually respectful relationships with a wide variety of individuals and institutions
• Ability to work under minimum supervision and be a creative-self starter and team player
• Ability to perform research-related tasks (e.g. library and web research, analysis and synthesis of documents, writing and editing) and to use a wide range of research methods (e.g. quantitative and qualitative data collection analysis)
• Ability to review and assist in managing budgets and to prepare narrative reports
• Sound MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet and web-based collaboration tools (wikis, blogs, online community networking applications, etc)
• Awareness of and sensitivity to individual, gender and cultural differences

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