iHub is Africa’s leading technology innovation ecosystem builder on a mission to accelerate the application of science, technology and social capital for economic prosperity across Africa.

About the Creative Economy Practice 

The Creative Economy Practice aims to enhance Job and Wealth Creation, and opportunities for Creative Expression for Africans (particularly women and young people), through innovation and the application of technology in the African Creative Economy.

The practice focuses on four main areas:

1. Research: Landscape, stakeholder, trends analyses and mappings to support evidence-based decision-making and advocacy for the Creative Economy in Africa.
2. Community and Ecosystem Development: Connecting creative and technology ecosystems and pan-African networks through the provision of workspace, face-to-face and online meetups and events.
3. Investment Readiness: Training, bootcamps, incubators, accelerators, tailored advisory and other support to boost the capability and attract investment.
4. Investments: Through our Syndicate Fund (equity, $50k - $250k) and management of partner funds – grants, debt, equity, hybrid and through investor education and advocacy.

The practice is an affiliate company of Co-creation Hub, https://cchub.africa, launched in 2010 to accelerate the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity in Africa.  Co-creation Hub, in addition to the Creative Economy Practice, includes CcHUB in Lagos, Nigeria & Windhoek, Namibia, Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda - https://cchubnigeria.com/designlab/ and iHUB https://ihub.co.ke/ in Nairobi, Kenya.

The successful candidate will conduct and lead research, produce user-friendly reports and creative outputs, and manage research partnerships related to Creative Economy sectors and trends. You will have experience managing applied research projects in a formal context and will need to show evidence of experience of managing at least two research projects outside their academic research.

Technical.

• Research and mine datasets to create impactful analyses and visualisations on the Unit’s key projects.
• Review large amounts of data from multiple sources and curate the relevant facts. 
• Perform statistical analysis using R/Stata and Qualitative analysis tools
• Leverage analytical techniques and technologies to interrogate, visualize and understand data sets.
• Support data and design production to research, scrape, refine, verify and interpret data to serve Creative Economy’s portfolios.
• Produce data and visualization packages in coordination with the Design Lab team.
• Work proactively and think critically to improve data and study design components of projects, tools and data stories created by the team.

Research Planning and Management

• Project-manage research projects, including creating and managing plans, schedules, budgets, deliverables and stakeholders contributions.
• Lead a portfolio of impactful research projects, from design to data collection, analysis and follow-through.
• Provide any other necessary support as needed.

Research Production and Distribution

• Contribute to the development of project reports and other knowledge products including research articles, briefings and presentations.
• Directly contribute to and manage creation of research reports and presentations including drafting  the findings report and presentation and collaborating with stakeholders on design and production.
• Manage the process and ensure research findings/reports/presentations are announced and distributed. Seek and  manage the development and distribution of new/innovative methods for sharing the finding with internal and external stakeholders.

We are looking for an accomplished researcher who combines excellent technical skills and
experience in project and team management, including:

• Post graduate's degree in Statistics, Economics, or Development Research or related field 
• At least 4 years working experience in a research field or as a data analyst.
• Experience undertaking research in a creative economy sector is strongly desirable.
• Knowledge and skills in Qualitative and Quantitative research methods.
• Experience in writing proposals, research write ups.
• Experience in developing research tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Experience using statistical languages such as R/Stata
• Excellent written and oral communication skills  including proven success in ability to present ideas and concepts effectively and persuasively
• Strong analytical skills, numerical confidence and ability to translate numbers into clear insights and recommendations. 
• Knowledge and experience in Human Centred Design.
• Demonstrated experience in managing research projects.
• Solid project management skills to oversee a portfolio of projects at different stages in the research lifecycle.
• A critical thinker, who is curious, intuitive and pays attention to details
• Innovative with ideas on approaches to collecting, evaluating and modelling datasets that will be used as the foundation for the company’s future solutions
• Strong work ethic and thrives working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge and experience of the Creative Economy is desirable