Research Assistant at Strathmore University

Basic job summary:

• Conduct high quality research to meet the project deliverables

Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Initiation:

• Establish schools social, financial and technical requirements
• Assist engineers with on-site technical surveys of the schools
• Innovate survey approach to optimise off site survey method for future
• Assist in data collection for school impact baselines
• Innovate impact data collection approach for result gathering
• Assist in business model communication method and materials
• Assist in recruitment and management of additional fellow researchers (24 FTE in total)

Research:

• Help establish working methods for running the Community Energy Hubs covering the following daytime educational services:
• IT and laboratory teaching
• Classroom lighting provision
• Clean cooking and refrigeration
• STEM lesson planning and adoption

Help establish working methods for running the Community Energy Hubs covering the following community and revenue earning services:

• Adult IT classes
• Security lighting provision
• Clean cooking for street food vendors
• Laundry services (washing, drying, ironing service washes)
• Water pumping
• Personal hygiene
• Trial the education and community services working methods with variations for each school as required
• Establish a best practice approach that allows each school’s working methods to be compared and improved over a number of trial iterations
• Run the research over a whole year via 4 quarterly cycles establishing hypothesis, operations and measuring finances (savings and revenues) and impact and learning for each cycle to improve best practice
• Help draw viability conclusions and necessary improvements.

Minimum Academic Qualifications:

• Masters/Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, IT, social sciences, or a similar related field

Experience:

• One or two years of relevant work experience working in the field of renewable energy research, business development, data management, monitoring and evaluation or a related field

Competencies and Attributes

• Punctuality in accomplishing assigned tasks
• Sense of initiative in accomplishing tasks
• Sense of responsibility
• Good relationship with departmental workers and clients
• Possess analytical skills and creativity
• Team worker