# Research Manager

We’re hiring Research Manager LOCATION: Freetown, Sierra Leone GROSS SALARY RANGE: $4,725.85 – $5,608.40 (gross monthly) CONTRACT: Indefinite Laterite is looking for an experienced professional to lead research teams, strategy, and operations in our office in Freetown, Sierra Leone. WHO WE ARE Laterite is a data, research, and analytics firm working on complex development challenges. We partner with universities, global think tanks, international NGOs, multilateral donors, and government ministries. Our clients include the World Bank, TechnoServe, the Mastercard Foundation, and others. We operate across the Netherlands, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and Peru, with 90+ full-time staff and more than 2,000 enumerators. We believe meaningful impact requires being on the ground, building local teams, and establishing long-term trust. Our office culture is collaborative and gives people autonomy to grow into their roles. Learn more: www.laterite.com THE ENVIRONMENT YOU’RE STEPPING INTO You will join our Sierra Leone team in a high-trust environment. We are low on bureaucracy but high on individual accountability. You won’t be micromanaged here—we want

- **Id**: 3987305
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/laterite-research-manager>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Freetown, Sierra Leone
- **Countries**: SL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-26T15:28:32Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-26T15:28:32Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 20
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5185
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Health insurance, Home office, Hybrid work, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2049827
- **Name**: Laterite
- **Domain**: laterite.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/laterite>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 4725
- **Max**: 5608
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: yes
- **Usd annual**: 67296

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Stata** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 20

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Sierra Leone** — Iso: SL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:04:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 51
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.794
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 19
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: seen:19, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 67296
- **Is top pay**: no

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