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Date Posted: Monday, April 04, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About the role
Burn is seeking a mission-driven candidate to help serve as Pilot Lead for the Kenyan market for our new experimental electric cooking appliances. This role is an exciting opportunity to help shape and launch electric cooking across Africa. The Pilot Lead will focus on:
The setup, rollout, and management of the day-to-day activities for Burn’s pilot projects in Kenya.
Work closely with the Research Manager and Commercial Sales Manager in designing pilots and research tools to answer key strategic questions supporting data-driven decision-making that can help scale the business successfully
Conduct feasibility studies and drive customer acquisition in line with specific pilot criteria oversee data collection of qualitative and quantitative data according to best practices to ensure data quality and integrity.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design and run a variety of research studies to answer key product questions, collect user feedback, and measure product impact.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the market research team, product development team, sales team, and customer care team, to ensure effective and efficient product development and provide detailed reports to support in development of sales, marketing, and communication strategies for all-electric products.
• Take ownership of survey design and implementation, including training of the field team.
• Defining (in collaboration with management) project objectives, budget, timelines, deliverables as well as the bigger strategy for development.
• Analyse and clean data to produce compelling and effective presentations providing insights on key pilot research questions.
• Manage the day-to-day project needs — organizing transport and logistics, tracking expenses and invoices while updating timelines.
• Coordinate team members, partner organization, procurements, schedules, and tasks to deliver results for project milestones in line with the project plan.
• Work together with the project controller to keep the budget tracking updated.
• Coordinate regular project meetings, develop agenda, and send meeting minutes.
• Assist with the hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members.
• Role may involve travel to other cities /countries as necessary

Education and Experience:
• 2+ years of experience in project management, program management/coordination in social enterprise or NGO
• Master's degree in Economics, Project Management, Business, or other relevant degrees with significant training in quantitative research methods and statistics.
• Good skills in Excel, Stata and/or R, and Kobo toolbox and/or Survey CTO, for data collection and analysis.
• Experience designing and implementing surveys and coordinating field research.
• Experience in field research team management
• Be able to adapt to a highly variable environment, change the scope and focus with ease.
• Thrive in a fast-paced creative environment with a culture of experimentation yet value the need to organize and plan.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent narrative writer and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills — unafraid to speak up or take issues head-on.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Desired Qualifications
• 1+ years of experience in PAYG field, preferably in Kenya, or other East African countries.
• Experience with fieldwork in East Africa, preferably in Kenya
• Fluent in Kiswahili

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
Use the link below to apply.
https://www.shortlist.net/jobs/5949

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