Analyst, Policy Development & Evaluation (1-year contract)

Verian is looking for an Analyst to join our Policy Development & Evaluation team. The successful candidate will need to be excited about policy research, complex evaluation projects, and be able to handle multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines. In return for passion and hard work, we strive to provide our employees with a fulfilling and rewarding career in research and consulting.

Responsibilities:

• Client servicing: Support the team in understanding of client contexts, decision environments, and policy challenges. Contribute to client discussions, project meetings, workshops, and presentations through preparation of materials, note-taking, and follow-up actions.
• End-to-end project coordination: Support day-to-day project delivery, including tracking timelines, coordinating fieldwork, managing project documents, arranging meetings, and helping ensure that deliverables are prepared accurately and on time.
• Literature reviews: Source for and synthesise evidence from secondary sources (e.g. academic literature, published reports, published data) to offer clear and concise summaries of existing research and inform research questions/ gaps. Be able to identify reliable versus unreliable sources to ensure that references are high quality.
• Policy Research & Evaluation Design: Support the development of research frameworks, theory of change, evaluation design, research instruments, and analytical plans under the guidance of senior team members.
• Mixed-methods Research: Support in the planning and conduct of qualitative and quantitative research.
• Impact Evaluation & Analytical Methods: Support evaluation projects by helping to develop indicators, prepare datasets, conduct basic analysis, review evidence, and document findings. Learn to apply more advanced evaluation approaches where relevant and appropriate.
• Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement: Support the design, organisation and conduct of engagements such as interviews, focus groups and workshops. Assist with discussion guides, logistics, moderation support, documentation, and synthesis of stakeholder inputs.
• Craft evidence-driven narratives for reports: Help connect evidence and data sources to prepare clear, concise, and impactful reports, presentations, and workshop materials. Support the translation of findings into practical implications and recommendations.
• Capability-building and proposal-writing: Support the preparation of capability-building materials, proposals, credentials, case studies, and thought pieces that strengthen Verian's reputation in policy development, evaluation, and applied social research.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree/ Master's Degree, preferably in Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, Political Science, or any other related disciplines.
• Prior experience in quantitative data analysis of individual-level data, using R, Python or SPSS.
• Knowledge of impact measurement (e.g., programme outcome frameworks, logic models/ theories of change) and/ or impact evaluation techniques (e.g., difference-in-differences, propensity score matching).
• Strong knowledge and interest in policy issues with experience in applied research to solve in real-world challenges.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills - and be interested in honing them further.
• Organised, meticulous, able to multi-task, respond quickly and work at pace when required.
• Be a strong team player - interested in working with and learning from others for high quality outcomes, keen to have a laugh and enjoy your colleagues, and relish the opportunity to contribute to a growing, inter-disciplinary team.
• Bilingual - English and mother tongue (Chinese/Malay/Tamil).