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Position Number: 684
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Salary Range: $60,696 - $72,865
Duration: Term 4 Years
Closing Date: October 5, 2008 at Midnight (Canadian EST)
Who Can Apply: IDRC employees and the general public
Job Details

Investigating the Social and Economic Impact of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a five-year research project sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Managed by the telecentre.org Program at IDRC, and in partnership with the Center for Information & Society at the University of Washington, the project seeks answers to questions on observable impacts of providing ICT through public access venues such as libraries and telecentres; the magnitude of these impacts (and how they can be measured); as well as the relationship between the costs of providing public access to ICT and its benefits in developing and emerging regions of the world.               . 

The Research Officer, under the guidance of the Senior Program Officer and the Program Manager of telecentre.org, will participate in monitoring the execution of the project’s overall vision and strategy; coordinate and manage day-to-day communications between the project teams around the world; assist in the review and analysis of project outputs; organize and properly disseminate the project’s research outputs; provide support for meeting and workshop planning; as well as assist in the writing and editing of project reports.

Familiarity with socio-economic interventions and services offered through public access to ICT venues such as libraries and telecentres
Strong knowledge of social science research designs (using both qualitative and quantitative approaches), particularly in ICT for development impact assessment methodologies
Knowledge of IDRC programs, policies and operations is an asset

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, orally and in writing
Superior planning, organizing, coordinating and building rapport skills under pressure
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to maintain mutually respectful relationships with a wide variety of individuals and institutions
Ability to work under minimum supervision and be a creative-self starter and team player
Ability to perform research-related tasks (e.g. library and web research, analysis and synthesis of documents, writing and editing) and to use a wide range of research methods (e.g. quantitative and qualitative data collection analysis)
Ability to review and assist in managing budgets and to prepare narrative reports
Sound MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet and web-based collaboration tools (wikis, blogs, online community networking applications, etc)
Awareness of and sensitivity to individual, gender and cultural differences

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