Senior Research Associate – Market Intelligence

About the role

The Senior Research Associate will coordinate market intelligence studies, manage research workflows and ensure high‑quality delivery across multiple projects. This role involves designing surveys, programming digital tools and collaborating with internal and external partners.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate day‑to‑day activities of 2–3 market intelligence studies, maintaining workplans, trackers and budgets.
• Develop and standardise research instruments, including questionnaires, surveys, interviews and focus groups.
• Program digital surveys using platforms such as SurveyCTO, ODK or KoboToolbox and conduct testing and quality assurance.
• Act as primary contact for implementing partners, overseeing translation, training, field launch and progress monitoring.
• Maintain and improve reusable research tools, SOPs and knowledge‑management resources.

Required profile

• Master’s degree in economics, agricultural economics, development studies, marketing, market research, social sciences, statistics, data science or related field (or equivalent bachelor’s plus experience).
• 5–7 years of professional experience in applied, market or survey research, with exposure to quantitative, qualitative and experimental methods.
• Proven ability to develop research instruments and support field implementation across surveys, interviews, focus groups and experiments.
• Experience working with external research agencies, consultants or field teams.

Required skills

• Digital survey programming (SurveyCTO, ODK, KoboToolbox or comparable platforms).
• Questionnaire development, logic design, validation and data dictionary management.
• Data quality assurance, field‑monitoring and issue troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted or emerging digital research methods (advantage).