Position: Senior Research Associate
Department: Research & Development (R&D;)
Organization: Thanal Daya Rehabilitation Trust
Qualification: Ph.D. in Social Sciences

Job Summary
The Senior Research Associate will be responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating research initiatives related to rehabilitation, community development, and social welfare. The role involves generating evidence-based insights, strengthening program effectiveness, developing research outputs, and supporting knowledge dissemination to inform organizational strategies and interventions.

Key Responsibilities
• Program Research and Evaluation: Lead research, monitoring, and evaluation activities to assess program effectiveness, outcomes, impact, and areas for improvement.

• Study Design and Development: Develop research proposals, study frameworks, methodologies, research tools, and evaluation plans aligned with organizational objectives.

• Community-Based Research: Plan and conduct community-level studies, field assessments, surveys, interviews, focus group discussions,



and other data collection activities.

• Data Analysis and Interpretation: Analyze qualitative and quantitative data, interpret findings, and translate research evidence into actionable recommendations.

• Knowledge Product Development: Prepare research reports, policy briefs, case studies, technical documents, publications, and other knowledge products for internal and external stakeholders.

• Research Dissemination: Present research findings through seminars, workshops, conferences, publications, and stakeholder consultations.

• Research Quality and Ethics: Ensure research rigor, data accuracy, confidentiality, informed consent, ethical compliance, and adherence to established research standards.

• Partnership and Collaboration: Build and maintain partnerships with academic institutions, research organizations, community stakeholders, funding agencies, and other relevant partners.

• Mentoring and Cap

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