Advisor

Location: Singapore (hybrid)

Remuneration: Competitive salary reflective of skills and experience

Contract terms: 24 months, with possibility for extension (incl. 6-month probation)

**What does the Advisor do?**:
Working closely with the Director and Principal Advisors, the Advisor applies their skills and knowledge across a range of strategic activities, such as use of evidence in intervention development and improvement, evidence synthesis, evaluation, and advancing implementation science.

CEI provides government, service sector and philanthropic decision-makers with rigorous data analysis and feasible solutions to support them in improving the lives of people facing adversity. The Advisor supports these projects, using rigorous methodology applied to real-world research and evaluation.

The Advisor supports CEI’s partners in Singapore and regionally to evaluate policies, programs, and service models: conducting evidence reviews (e.g., evidence insights, landscape studies, rapid reviews); developing theory of change and program logic models; conducting and overseeing data collection and analysis; report writing, facilitating workshops; coaching and advising on methods and approaches; developing implementation plans and presentations of findings. The Advisor also contributes to project management, research activities and publications - as required by CEI’s project portfolio.

**Key areas of responsibility**:
Key areas of accountability are outlined below. Other duties will be performed, as required.

As part of a global organisation, there may be occasions when work and meetings will be conducted outside regular business hours, and this role may involve working on projects and initiatives across CEI’s offices, i.e., working virtually with our UK or Australian teams.

**Evaluation and enhancement of programs and services**:

- Contribute to the design of evaluations, including impact, implementation, and process evaluations.
- Design data collection instruments and systems (e.g., surveys, qualitative interview schedules, administrative data collection), including researching and selecting validated measures.
- Undertake interviews and focus groups and oversee survey administration.
- Analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
- Conduct Theory of Change workshops with stakeholders and funders and produce Program Logics.
- Contribute to the development of evaluation methodology, including hybrid effectiveness-implementation designs.
- Provide implementation support for evidence-informed programs and services, including supporting implementation teams and training, and contributing to the development of implementation plans.
- Establish monitoring and evaluation processes to measure implementation quality.
- Contribute to reports, summaries and presentations for a variety of audiences, including academic audiences, policymakers, program managers and practitioners.

**Evidence synthesis**:

- Contribute to the design of evidence syntheses, including systematic reviews, rapid reviews, scoping reviews, and evidence and gap maps.
- Design search strategies for systematic reviews, rapid reviews, scoping reviews and evidence and gap maps, and undertake searches of academic databases and grey literature.
- Design screening criteria and undertake and oversee screening of literature, using Covidence or similar systems.
- Extract data from screened-in studies and oversee the work of other team members.
- Summarise extracted data and write research syntheses.

**Project management**:

- Project planning and organisation, including coordinating project teams and resources, setting up timetables and project management systems, identifying project risks, budget monitoring, setting up invoicing and contracts.
- Regular reporting to and liaising with clients and funders.
- Undertake consultations with key stakeholders, service providers and clients.
- Adhere to CEI quality control and governance processes.

**CEI business operation and development**:

- Contribute to the preparation of competitive tenders, project proposals and grant submissions.
- Prepare reports, publications and project overviews for CEI publications (e.g., website and newsletters).
- Participate in, and contribute to, CEI’s internal operations, activities and processes - such as team meetings, knowledge exchange and performance tracking.
- Support the development and maintenance of strong stakeholder relationships.
- Contribute to CEI’s thought leadership in implementation science and evaluation.

**Health and safety requirements**:

- Act in a safe manner at all times, including complying with all safety instructions and training given at the workplace.
- Participate in, and contribute to, health and safety awareness and improvements.
- Comply with emergency evacuation procedures.
- Report all incidents, injuries, and potential hazards in a timely manner.

**Key selection criteria**:
They will find CEI to be a highly motivational and energising envir