Job Vacancy at University of Lagos for Project Researcher 2 - Education and Schools Lagos Nigeria

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The University of Lagos invites applications from outstanding and ambitious individuals to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Researcher 2 - Education and Schools

Job Location: Lagos

General Description

• Vacancies exist for outstanding and ambitious researchers in the humanities and social sciences to work full - time at the University of Lagos as part of a large research team on an international Cultural Studies project. The project. 'The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880- present', will span five years. It has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), an arm of the European Union (EU). The successful candidates will join three teams of researchers on the project - one in the UK, one in Lagos and one in Nairobi - to conduct interviews, gather data, and undertake media studies and content analyses in a variety of urban settings.
• The Lagos arm requires three Project Researcher (PRs) in (1) Public Health, Urban Sociology and or the Environment (2) Media and Communications (3) Education to generate data and reports or four key themes - colonialism, the environment, sexuality and ethnicity - and to examine everyday urban practices in Lagos, with particular attention to the ways in which urban encounters and identities are represented and interpreted through English and local- language categories denoting dirt.
• The Project Researcher that we need must have sound experience in conducting sustained research preferably at the postgraduate level in relevant disciplines. Proven skills are required in spoken and written English, spoken Nigerian Pidgin and in spoken and written Yoruba. Each Project Researcher must be able to meet strict fortnightly project deadlines. Core provision will be made for tailored research methods training for all Project Researchers in the UK for a 34 week period in March/April 2014.

Essential Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to use discipline-specific software and methodologies for the presentation and analysis of data.
• Experience in the completion of independent research projects.
• Transcription and translation skills.

Specific Job Descriptions

• This project researcher will be responsible for identifying schools liaising with school stakeholders developing and implementing an in-depth qualitative questionnaire and educational materials on the topic of "Life in My City" suitable for use in local schools at two levels: (a) 7 to 9 years olds and (b) 13 to 15 years old).
• Working closely with the project teams in Lagos, Nairobi and the UK, the successful candidate will generate data in relation to the ways of children and young peep interpret the connections between e.g urbanization and dirt urbanization and hygiene, urbanization and migration.
• Training will be provided in
  • legal and ethical issues relating to research with children and young people and
  • qualitative approaches to working with children.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate experience and expertise in the identification of stakeholders and gate-keepers in schools and pare- school communities.
• Show an ability to develop and implement questionnaires for use in different educational contexts.
• Undertake one-to-one and group interviews including the translation, transcription and anonymisation of results.

Qualification

• A bachelor's degree with a minimum of second class (lower division) and a Masters (ME.d) degree in Social Science, or Early Childhood Education or Education Psychology or a related discipline.

Condition of Service

• Duration of appointment: Successful candidates will he appointed as project staff on the ERC-sponsored Dirtpol project and shall be employed full-time from 1st February, 2014 to 31st August, 2017, and half-time from 1st September, 2017 to 31st August, 2018 only.
• Salary and condition of service: Successful candidates will be appointed at the level of Assistant Lecturers on CONUASS2.

Mode of Application
Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter clearly indicating the following information:

• Description of research methods you have used in previous research projects (Max 250 words)
• Description of how your skill-set will contribute to the post of Project Researcher on the ERC-Dirtpol project (max. 200 words)
• 2 research questions you would expect to address if appointed as Project Researcher (max. 100 words)
• Successful candidates will be contacted by 18th December, 2013.
• Interviews will hold on 9 & 10th January, 2014.

Application letters should be sent as email attachments to: dirtpol@sussex.ac.uk and copied to: poloko@unilag.edu.ng

Application Deadline: 12th December, 2013