mPower is a pioneer and global leader in “Development Intelligence”, business intelligence for the social development in government and non-government sectors. If you are passionate about changing the world and improving the lives of millions of poor and disadvantaged people of the world combining both creativity & cutting-edge technology, apply for our Research Officer vacancy.

Duty Station: Head Office in Gulshan, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs

Job Description:

As a Research Officer at mPower, you will bridge the gap between community mental health counseling encounters and structured framework analysis. Utilizing your clinical or psychological background, and the on-job training provided, you will analyze session notes and counseling transcripts to isolate structural stressors, environmental determinants, and localized expressions of distress. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional who wants to shape culturally grounded, ethically sound community mental health tools without needing a technical computer science background.

Job Responsibilities:

• Systematically review, format, and de-identify longitudinal counseling transcripts collected from community screening sites.
• Lead isolation of explicit symptoms, social determinants, expression of distress, and map relations between them.
• Triangulate clinical session inferences with data gathered from community Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and expert anthropological workshops.
• Format extracted behavioral and structural nodes to help build the project`s Hierarchical Causal Knowledge Graph.
• Assist in regular bias audits to ensure the documented data paths do not oversimplify client distress or miss crucial psychiatric referral flags.
• Coordinate with lived-experience advocacy networks to validate that terms are mapped in a non-stigmatizing, culturally respectful manner.