Health Services Research Lead - Implementation & Evaluation

WORQ Coworking Space; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

WORQ Coworking Space is seeking a highly motivated Research Associate or Research Fellow to lead and support health services and implementation research across the ANCHOR portfolio. The role requires expertise in study design and end-to-end research management to translate evidence into actionable recommendations in a public healthcare environment.

The successful candidate will collaborate with clinicians, analysts, and other stakeholders to design, deliver rigorous research and evaluation

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Public Health, Health Services Research, Implementation Science, or related field.
• Experience in quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research and programme evaluation.
• Ability to design and conduct independent research and interpret findings.
• Experience with R, Stata, SPSS, NVivo or equivalent.
• Strong project management and scientific communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage health services, implementation, and evaluation research projects across the ANCHOR portfolio.
• Develop study protocols, research questions, analysis plans, data collection instruments, and evaluation frameworks using appropriate quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches.
• Plan and oversee data collection, which may include surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, observations, routine clinical or operational data, and other relevant sources.
• Manage, clean, analyse, integrate, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data using suitable analytical methods and software.
• Conduct literature reviews, evidence syntheses, programme evaluations, and implementation analyses to address research and service needs.
• Translate findings into clear, actionable insights for research reports, manuscripts, policy briefs, posters, presentations, and service improvement initiatives.
• Ensure research activities comply with ethics requirements, approved protocols, data management standards, and institutional policies.
• Manage project plans, timelines, budgets where applicable, documentation, risks, approvals, and deliverables to support timely and high-quality project execution.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams and engage clinicians, operational partners, patients, caregivers, policymakers, and other stakeholders throughout the research lifecycle.
• Support grant applications and facilitate dissemination by preparing manuscripts for publication and presenting findings at internal meetings and conferences.

Skills

Research design

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

Mixed-methods

Scientific writing

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's or PhD in Public Health / Health Services Research / Implementation Science

Tools

R

Stata

SPSS

NVivo

Job description

WORQ Coworking Space is seeking a highly motivated Research Associate or Research Fellow to lead and support health services and implementation research across the ANCHOR portfolio. The role requires expertise in study design and end-to-end research management to translate evidence into actionable recommendations in a public healthcare environment.

The successful candidate will collaborate with clinicians, analysts, and other stakeholders to design, deliver rigorous research and evaluation