Website Vihara
Job Description: Ethnographer
About Vihara
Vihara is a human centered social impact enterprise. Our work involves working on some of the most pressing challenges in Public Health such as Immunization, Quality of care, Maternal & Child health. Vihara works along the complete cycle of innovation – from using ethnographic research to gather behavioural insights, designing innovative solutions to address complex systemic challenges, to working with relevant partners to create implementation pathways for ideas to become real and aid uptake of innovations.
Vihara’s has a strong theory of impact, oriented towards improving quality of care in public health. We are an extremely agile organization, with roles and functions that cut across disciplines, and are looking for people who are comfortable handling multiple responsibilities, have a managerial bent of mind, and most importantly who are as dedicated as us in achieving meaningful social impact.
What will your day to day look like?
Selected candidates will be responsible for:
- Carrying out ethnographic and other qualitative research exercises in the field
- Guiding team members on existing environmental and cultural contexts
- Sending reports and regular updates on specific thematic areas from the field
- Training other researchers on research methods, where needed
- Developing an analytical framework to help streamline learning’s from the field
- Assisting in design ethnographies, where needed
- Taking part in/organizing learning and insight workshops along with project leadership, when and where needed
Basic Qualifications:
- M.A. in Sociology/Anthropology or other social sciences
- Experience conducting ethnographies across different sites
- Experience in/understanding of cultural contexts in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other parts of northern India
- Strong Hindi/Urdu language skills
- Ability to move to field site (in UP Or Bihar) at short notice
Good to haves (skills / experiences):
- Interest and familiarity with public health and nutrition in the global south
- Ability to write for different audiences (academic, donor, media, advocacy) – candidates must share examples of writing for different audiences
- Understanding/language proficiency in Bihari and UP dialects will be given preference
- Experience and ability to work using other qualitative/quantitative/mixed methods
- Experience and ability to work using analytical softwares
- Familiarity with design research
- Familiarity with project management softwares
- Since the main project for which this hiring call has been issued aims to study masculinity in northern India, qualified male applicants will be given preference.
How to apply
To apply for this job, please write a succinct email describing your interest in this position, and attach a writing sample, your up to date CV and a portfolio. Please highlight experiences that are relevant to the description mentioned above.
Send it to vihara@vihara.asia
About Vihara
Vihara is one of India’s leading design led social innovation practices. It has been working in this sector for more than a decade, and has deep expertise in bringing innovation to social development.
Our teams are multi-disciplinary, representing wide expertise areas such as Design, Research, Management and more. Our way of working involves tying together these various technical skills to achieve the common goal of making social systems work for people. As such, we like to think of our team as changemakers, rather than identify them by their technical specialities.
You can read more about our work on our website
To apply for this job email your details to vihara@vihara.asia
