AIP Rural Job Vacancy - Research Assistant

Company Overview

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Project Overview and Role

The Government of Indonesia partners with the Government of Australia on an initiative to boost smallholder farmers incomes: The Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Rural Economic Development (AIP-Rural).

AIP-Rural is a program with 4 projects: PRISMA (agricultural development), TIRTA (irrigation), SAFIRA (value chain finance) and ARISA (applied agriculture research). It follows a Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach and will contribute to a 30%, or more, increase in net incomes for 300,000 smallholder farming households by December 2018. It works in a range of sub-sectors in collaboration with farmers, businesses, government and civil society partners to increase the competitiveness of farm businesses through (i) increased productivity; (ii) improved business practices; (iii) a growing share of an expanding market; and (iv) the continuous adoption of innovations. The project works in five (5) provinces in Eastern Indonesia: East Java, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, West Papua and Papua.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the position is to support Senior Business Consultant (SBC) - RML in conducting Impact Assessment Survey in all intervention area. Research Assistant will Assist SBC - RML in the following task below :

• Developing research design, work plan, questionnaire and other analysis tool.
• Hiring, training and coordinating local enumerators.
• Quality monitoring of data collection in the field.
• Data cleaning, data analysis and reporting
• Develop report

Requirements

Essential skills and experience:

• Minimum education is Bachelor Degree in economics, business, agriculture, statistics, or other related discipline.
• At least 1 years of experience in survey and research.
• Ability to conduct both qualitative and quantitative researches.
• Ability to produce research report using PowerPoint in English and Bahasa.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Computer literate in Microsoft applications and other relevant computer applications particularly programs to support data entry (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS, etc.).
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Professional presentation and communication skills both in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
• Liaising with multi stakeholders

Application

Read the full details and how to apply here: Palladium - Research Assistant

Application close on 24 July 2018.

Indonesian nationals and female candidates are encouraged to apply