National Researcher- Political Scientist-mena Region
5 days ago
Political scientist-MENA region.
**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
- lead research inputs on policy coherence utilizing political economy approaches, and facilitate through workshops, meetings and presentations, effective collaboration and co-learning and evaluation among its members;
- Policy liaison and support to national policy think tanks;
- Convene policy seminar series ensuring the inclusion and effective participation of a wide range of stakeholders at the appropriate level;
- Conduct secondary data collation, literature synthesis, interviews, and other research activities;
- Facilitate and support the organization of project outreach activities, capacity building through dialogues and policy platforms (e.g., national and regional stakeholders and research partners, including the private sector);
- Document research outputs - Compile and analyze data and contribute to scientific publications, policy briefs, research papers, case studies, reports, briefs, presentations and other forms of science outputs and more general materials for dissemination to wider policy and public audiences;
- Carry out other project and research related activities as required.
**Requirements**:
**MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**:
Essential:
- PhD or Master’s degree or combined educational and professional experience in political science, development studies, human geography, development economics, or closely related field relevant to water resources management, agricultural development and natural resource governance.
- Minimum three (3) years of related work experience.
**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:
- Excellent political science research data collection skills and demonstrated ability to perform in-depth analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and report the results; familiarity with related modeling tools is an advantage;
- Familiarity with national (Egypt) and the regional (Middle east and/or North Africa) key policies in regards to water-Food-Land-Energy sectors as well as to social development;
- Experience in presenting research results to wider audiences essential and contributing to scientific publications a distinct advantage;
- Experience conducting desk and field based research utilizing political economy type approaches;
- Confidence speaking in English and strong written English skills.
- Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams and build strong working relationships with a range of key stakeholders, especially in government agencies, national universities, international agencies, media, and civil society organizations;
- Capacity to manage a workload comprising multiple tasks and to deliver high quality outputs on time, whilst ensuring attention to detail;
- Ability to be bring a creative and proactive approach to tasks, to work to own initiative and to require mínimal supervision.
**Benefits**
- IWMI believes that diversity powers our innovation, contributes to our excellence, and is critical for our mission. We offer a multi-cultural, multi-color, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary working environment. We are consciously creating an inclusive organization that reflects our global character and our commitment to gender equity. We, therefore, encourage applicants from all cultures, races, ethnicities, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientations, and gender identities._
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