Research Assistant

5 months ago


Mississauga, Canada Nisa Foundation Full time

**Summer Student - Research Assistant**

**Job title**

Research Assistant

**Reports to**

Executive Director

**Location**

Remote

**Job Status**

8-week (40 hours/week)

The Research Assistant will be responsible conducting research on domestic violence, Muslim and Immigrant communities in Canada/North America as well as transitional housing services similar to Nisa Homes. This includes conducting primary and secondary research, identifying challenges, trends and opportunities for Nisa Homes as a service provider. Research will be used internally and externally for the purpose of publications and presentations.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Determine scope, objectives and requirements of research projects and formulate a plan with the Program Manager
- Devise and evaluate methods for collecting data, such as surveys, focus groups, questionnaires, and opinion polls to discover challenges and demographics of Muslim/Immigrant population in Canada and their need for support.
- Organize and tabulate data and formulate reports for presenting to executive team
- Monitor the progress of research projects and update relevant stakeholders
- Manage and organize information conducting qualitative or quantitative surveys, focus groups or one on one interviews
- Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns and solutions, including surveys and focus group transcripts
- Consolidate information into actionable items, reports, blog posts, presentation and other publications.

**COMPETENCES**
- Research Skills
- Information gathering
- Planning and Organizing
- Attention to Detail
- Communication - digital, written and oral
- Data Management and Reporting

**EDUCATION/QUALIFICATION**:

- Fundamentals of data management techniques and data reporting + visualization
- Previous research experience is required

**This position is under the Canada Summer Jobs program, to be eligible, applicants must**:

- Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment
- Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the _Immigration and Refugee Protection Act_ for the duration of the employment**; and,
- Have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations
- As per section 13.1(a) of the Articles of Agreement, youth hired for a Canada Summer Jobs-funded job cannot displace or replace existing employees or volunteers, employees that have been laid-off and are awaiting recall, employees absent due to an industrial dispute, employees on vacation, or employees on maternity or parental leave.
- Nisa Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to complying with both the _Ontario Human Rights Code_ and the _AODA_._



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