Senior Research Manager, Social Impact & Evaluation

National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NVPC in Singapore seeks a seasoned researcher to lead and support national-level studies on volunteering and philanthropy. You will oversee the full research cycle, design instruments, apply quantitative and qualitative methods, and translate findings for policy and practice.

Collaboration with government and sector partners is essential to inform Singapore's social landscape. The role requires a Masters in a related field and 4–6 years of applied research experience, including survey management

Qualifications

• Masters in Social Sciences, Public Policy, Statistics, Data Analytics, Evaluation, or related disciplines or postgraduate training would be an advantage.
• At least 4–6 years of experience in applied social research, survey research, programme evaluation or related fields.
• Experience managing large-scale surveys, especially household or population-level studies.
• Experience in research design, questionnaire development, data cleaning, quantitative analysis, and report writing for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating vendors, fieldwork teams, interns, or cross-functional project teams.
• Direct people management experience is not essential but would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support national-level, population-level and sector studies on donating, volunteering and social impact.
• Manage the research cycle from scoping, proposal development, study design and ethics clearance to procurement, fieldwork coordination, data management, analysis and reporting.
• Design and review research frameworks, survey instruments, sampling plans, fieldwork protocols, data cleaning processes and analytical plans.
• Apply suitable quantitative and/or qualitative methods, including descriptive analysis, cross-tabulation, hypothesis testing and regression analysis.
• Familiarity with more advanced methods such as factor analysis, clustering, segmentation, longitudinal analysis, causal inference approaches or latent variable modelling would be an advantage.
• Analyse findings, identify meaningful patterns, assess evidence quality, and develop coherent evidence-based narratives.
• Translate findings into clear 'so what' implications that are analytically sound, context-sensitive and practical for Singapore's context.
• Work with internal teams, senior management, government stakeholders and sector partners to understand questions, constraints and evidence needs.
• Translate broad or ambiguous needs into feasible research questions, study designs, evaluation approaches or learning agendas.
• Identify evidence gaps, connect learning across studies, and propose research ideas or directions where appropriate.
• Support cross-functional work, organisational events, procurement, documentation, knowledge management and other team priorities as needed.

Skills

Research design

Questionnaire development

Data cleaning

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

Statistical inference

Regression analysis

Report writing

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Vendor coordination

Statistical software

Education

Masters in Social Sciences

Tools

SPSS

Stata

R

Python

Mplus

Job description

NVPC in Singapore seeks a seasoned researcher to lead and support national-level studies on volunteering and philanthropy. You will oversee the full research cycle, design instruments, apply quantitative and qualitative methods, and translate findings for policy and practice.

Collaboration with government and sector partners is essential to inform Singapore's social landscape. The role requires a Masters in a related field and 4–6 years of applied research experience, including survey management