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Official sourceAnalyst - Capacity Strengthening, Social Cohesion
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

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Role overview
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is hiring an Analyst to support their Social Cohesion portfolio in Nairobi. This contract role is suited for someone with a background in public policy, economics, or social sciences, interested in social cohesion and capacity strengthening projects.
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What you will do
- Support the design, coordination, and delivery of capacity strengthening activities such as workshops, training sessions, webinars, and peer-learning forums.
- Develop and adapt training materials, facilitator guides, presentations, and practical exercises with technical teams.
- Organize and maintain repositories for training materials, tools, and resources.
- Synthesize learnings from capacity strengthening engagements to identify best practices and challenges.
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation of capacity strengthening workstreams according to plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure timely activity implementation.
- Track participation, learning outcomes, partner engagement, and progress against objectives.
- Assist with budget tracking, procurement requests, and administrative tasks related to capacity strengthening.
- Participate in fieldwork as required.
- Communicate project coordination with relevant teams to ensure smooth engagement rollout.
- Support design and development of research, advisory, and practice projects using behavioral science to address global poverty.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the project supervisor.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Economics, Social Sciences, or related fields.
- Experience and interest in social cohesion topics such as identity, trust, governance, conflict resolution, and civic engagement.
- Experience managing relationships between government and civil society.
- Experience developing and disseminating learning materials.
- Understanding of social cohesion issues in East Africa.
- Strong self-motivation and positive attitude.
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and work well in a team.
- Experience working in fast-paced environments.
- Fluency in English and excellent writing skills; knowledge of an additional relevant language is a plus.
- High attention to detail with a global perspective for planning and decision making.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Willingness and ability to travel to project locations, including regional and international sites in the Global South.
How to apply
Apply through the employer's official contact. The employer has not published a closing date.