Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Act as an advocate for children. Understand and advance Christ’s mandate to protect children. Take active steps to help protect against neglect, abuse and exploitation of children.
• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
• Conduct new quantitative research studies using rigorous approaches to generate reliable, timely and meaningful information to stakeholders. This includes stakeholder engagement, ability to implement design, literature reviews and country-level contextualization, sample and participant selection, quantitative methodology (mostly quasi-experimental methods); run STATA (or R) code and assist in analysis, report writing and presentation to multiple audiences and forums.
• Using causal methods, run ongoing impact evaluations to measure the effectiveness of all parts of Compassion’s child development programs.
• Advise program managers, field office staff and leadership on relevant programmatic issues when requested and through contribution to multi-departmental projects, creative thinking and analysis teams.
• Interface with other Compassion departments and individuals who collect information and data to minimize duplication of effort, build cooperation and support the growth of quality information gathering across the organization.
• Present research findings to audiences to engage non-research staff in research results.

What will you bring?
• Bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred) in data analytics, economics, econometrics, statistics, applied psychology, international economics, international development or other related field with major components that include research methods, at least two semesters of econometrics or advanced statistics, and impact evaluations.
• Three years’ relevant experience working in this or a related field.
• Experience with Stata or R.
• Experience with quasi-experimental methods preferred.
• Some experience with SQL, Snowflake or AWS preferred.
• Experience in project management preferred.
• Experience with common data collection and management tools, such as building surveys in SurveyCTO, ODK, conducting statistical analysis in Stata and R, data management and visualization in AWS, Snowflake (familiarity with SQL preferred), Salesforce, Tableau.
• Strong analytical skills with a foundation in statistical techniques (e.g., various forms of regression, power and sample size determination, PSM, SEM, difference in differences analysis, multivariate analysis etc.).
• Understanding of data pipelines and data storage, computer programming language is a plus (e.g., ability to build YAML files, proficiency with Python or R).
• English proficiency (readying, writing, and speaking) required.
• Proficiency in at least one of the languages spoken in Compassion countries is a plus.