Exciting Career Opportunity at VisionSpring

ROLE: Global Evaluation and Research Manager

Are you a changemaker who loves evidence and wants to help millions of low-income people see again?

VisionSpring, an international social enterprise, needs a Global Evaluation and Research Manager to plan, commission, quality assure, and execute evaluation and research projects that support its purpose and vision.

She or he will help VisionSpring generate proof of programmatic and organizational effect in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.

The Senior Lead, Global Evaluation and Research (currently based in our India office) will collaborate with the Global Evaluation and Research Manager to oversee VisionSpring’s portfolio of evaluation and research projects, which includes internal project evaluations, sizable randomized controlled trials run by international academic teams, and everything in between.

The postholder will ensure that our programs are based on the best evidence, whether from VisionSpring or others, and use learning to scale and impact. Through assessment outcomes and data, the Global Assessment and Research Manager will assist the Senior Lead, Global Evaluation and Research, in promoting VisionSpring as a thought leader on emerging trends, data, effective practices, and evidence.

She or he will actively pursue strategic relationships with research institutes, universities, corporations, and consultants. The Global Program Office’s Global Evaluation and Research Manager reports to the Senior Lead.

About You

Mission-focused entrepreneur. Through review and research, you create a mission-driven unit to support long-term organizational goals. You encourage brainstorming, iteration, and learning, and you think analytically. You value practical evidence over methodological excellence.
Curious and evidence-driven. You keep asking questions about our programs until you understand them well enough to do high-quality evaluation and research to improve their efficacy and efficiency. You inspire people with your zeal for evidence usage.
Customer-focused. You base assessment and research designs on proof user value propositions and consumer feedback.
Champion scaler. Based on cost-effectiveness, repeatability, consumer demand, and market opportunity, you want to use data, evidence, and learning to reach millions.
Player-coach included. Mentoring and developing individuals makes VisionSpring more evidence-based. Participation and responsibility expand in a diversified, growth-stage business. You showcase vulnerability and accountability and step up when needed.
A resource mobilizer. You help establish support cases for rigorous program design and impact.
Collaborator. You’ve managed multi-stakeholder research partnerships and delivered.

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About Us

VisionSpring makes inexpensive eyewear available worldwide. Clear vision improves learning, work, safety, civic engagement, and life quality.
Social change drives us as a social enterprise. Our sales and revenue targets support our commitment to improve low-income consumers’ functioning, productivity, and income by correcting refractive error with eyeglasses.
We are working to fix an optical industry that has failed to deliver 700-year-old eyeglasses to 1.1 billion vision-impaired people, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.
We serve low-income customers, not beneficiaries. Customer expectations are high-quality and affordable, and they will spend a limited discretionary budget for instant and tangible vision correction benefits.
Selling eyeglasses creates demand and a market. We can serve four times more people per dollar by selling new eyeglasses than by donating recycled ones. For efficient scaling, we must supply each new unit cheaper.
Our business uses revenue and social impact indicators. We accomplish our goals using various organizational methods.
Scaling effect, not organization, is our goal. A lean crew of doers.

What You Do

Research and Evaluation Planning and Delivery

Scope VisionSpring program evidence needs and create evaluation plans with clear objectives, research questions, methodologies, and evidence use plans. Ensure evidence users get useful evidence.
Create administrative data collection, structured participant surveys, and qualitative interview guides to help VisionSpring answer research and evaluation issues.
Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), clean data, obtain IRB and ethical approval, analyse routine data, and coordinate enumerators’ daily work.
Make that evaluation and research programs follow data protection, informed consent, and ethics guidelines.
Lead the external commissioning of specific evaluations or evaluation components (e.g., survey data collection) and work with colleagues to execute high-quality procurement and partner management.
Analyse data and develop reports, one-pagers, and presentations for internal and external evidence users.

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Strategy and Culture Evaluation and Research

Help VisionSpring’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) team create and implement its strategy and framework.
Develop policies, guidelines, and standard procedures based on your experience or enthusiasm.
Encourage VisionSpring employees to use evidence in all its forms to support their work and achieve the company’s goals.

Management of Knowledge

Create high-quality, actionable evidence ‘products’ (e.g. summary notes) for VisionSpring colleagues.
Help program teams document results and learning.
Set an example in knowledge management, including how you arrange VisionSpring SharePoint project files.

Development of business

Help the group raise cash for evaluation and research. Develop strategic collaborations with universities, research institutes, and consultants.
Contribute data and evidence to funding bids and donor reports to advance the business.

Thought Leadership and External Engagement

Find forums to share assessments and research findings to advance VisionSpring’s purpose. Maintain abstract submissions and represent VisionSpring outside.
Publicize successful and promising initiatives, lessons learned, and other program results to program partners, donors, CSR clients, country governments, and other relevant stakeholders.
Help Resource Mobilization and Marketing & Communications teams share findings with critical audiences.

Requirements

Essential

A passion for using statistics and evidence for social good.
Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation and research training. If your background is different, this may come from other formal training courses or an advanced degree in public health, social sciences, statistics, or development studies.
5+ years of monitoring, evaluation, and research experience with career progression
Highly skilled in quantitative or qualitative research methodologies and fluent in the other. Mixed-methods design and data integration experience.
Skilled in coding qualitative interviews, using pivot tables in Excel, and using at least one statistical software product (SPSS, Stata, R).
Experience conveying evaluation and research findings in summary summaries or journal articles

Desirable

Strong qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods integration skills
Experience in international development, working with philanthropic, institutional, or CSR funders, and working in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Bangladesh, or Vietnam. Proficient in Excel, PowerQuery, PowerPivot, and PowerBI.
IRB procedure experience

Compensation

According to VisionSpring compensation benchmarking, experience and education determine salary.
Performance-based annual bonus.
VisionSpring offers competitive health insurance, gratuity funds, and ample holiday and personal time.

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To apply

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Interview-only candidates will be notified.

For VisionSpring, diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to our equity mission. We aim to remove uncorrected hazy vision, a major impediment to economic and social involvement.

Our mission values drive our diversity and inclusion team. VisionSpring may tackle problems with nuance and produce unique insights that have a huge positive impact on a varied workforce.

We actively recruit, develop, and retain outstanding people from varied backgrounds and assist everyone in being themselves. VisionSpring accepts applications from various backgrounds, skills, and viewpoints.

How to Apply for this Career Opportunity at VisionSpring

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Closing Date: February 17, 2024

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