The Ghana Anti-corruption Coalition is a cross-sectoral grouping of public, private and civil society organizations with the sole aim of building a national effort to confront the problem of corruption and devise effective control measures.

GACC seeks to reduce poverty by co-ordinating anti- corruption activities in Ghana through collaboration with its members and other key stakeholders and with of vision of a Ghana free from corruption where honesty, transparency, accountability and integrity are upheld.

The Coalition focuses on research and monitoring of anti-corruption legal environment as well as providing anti-corruption assessment to feed into policy documents. GACC also promotes citizen’s education on transparency and accountability issues, advocate on relevant issues that seek to enhance good governance.

The Coalition presently seeks to engage a Research Officer who would lead the work of the Research Unit of the Coalition’s Secretariat to help achieve the strategic objectives of the Coalition.

Specific Accountabilities of the Research Officer
The Research Officer shall perform but not limited to the following duties:

•   Lead the conduct and delivery of GACC research projects including research design, desk studies, literature reviews, project management, training, data collection, analysis, report writing etc;
•   Formulate and package research findings for dissemination and support the presentation and communication to stakeholders;
•   Lead the identification of policy implications of research findings and use information to develop policy briefs for advocacy;
•   Lead monitoring and evaluation activities of GACC’s programmes including the conduct of baseline surveys and mid-term reviews;
•   Draw up terms of reference for external evaluators to carry out monitoring and evaluation activities related to GACC programmes including donor/and or end project reviews;
•   Develop new research proposals to seek funding;
•   Work collegially with GACCs programmes, finance and fundraising units to develop new project proposals;
•   Build the capacity of GACC staff members in research methods, data gathering, analysis, interpretation and report writing;
•   Monitor General corruption and anti-corruption indicators and the media
•   Support Public Education and Awareness creation programmes of GACC
•   Perform other tasks assigned to you by the Executive Secretary within the objects of the GACC

Qualification Required & Experience

The successful candidate must have:

•   At least a Master’s Degree in Development or Social Studies or other related field;
•   Three (3) to five (5) years relevant professional experience;
•   Demonstrated skills in research (quantitative and qualitative) from design to field research to analysis and report writing;
•   Excellent numeracy skills, including advanced knowledge and experience in the use of Microsoft Excel and statistical software packages, such as SPSS;
•   Ability to analyse complex data in a technical area and to summarise and communicate this in ways that are accessible to a range of audiences;
•   Strong project management skills;
•   Excellent writing skills;
•   Ability to deliver training;
•   Prior work experience in research and monitoring and evaluation
•   Prior work experience in civil society and NGO sector
•   Relevant working experience in national and local governance and civil society work;
•   The successful candidate must also have experience in community assessment of services, using Participatory Rural Appraisal and Participatory Poverty Assessment methods including the use of Community Score Card and other developments tools and methods.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Qualified and interested persons should please send a CV (maximum 3 pages) together with a cover letter (maximum 1 page) to explain what you will bring to this role at GACC and reference “Research Officer “ by post to:

The Executive Secretary
Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition
P. O. Box GP 17921
Accra-Ghana

or by email to:

hrofficer14@gmail.com

Closing Date: 30 May, 2014