Organization:
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Deputy
Country Director or Country Director
Innovations for Poverty Action
(IPA) is an international non-profit research organization based in New Haven,
CT, with offices in Washington, D.C. and worldwide. IPA discovers and promotes
effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously
evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with
decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve
opportunities for the world’s poor. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked
with over 350 leading academics to conduct over 450 evaluations in 51
countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now
impact millions of individuals worldwide.
Job Summary: The Research
Managers manage a portfolio of up to five projects. These projects will include
both research and project implementation components. They span a range of
sectoral areas, such as finance, agriculture, health, education and gender
issues. As part of their supervisory role, the Research Manager works closely
with the country office to ensure effective support is provided to projects,
and that projects are working within the relevant policies and procedures. The Research Managers are members of country
program management teams, thus they play a senior management role through
contributions to country program development, project development, policy
conversations as well as capacity building.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The
incumbent will keep the Country Director appraised of all developments on
the projects in their portfolio, and serve as key link between the field
office, project staff, and Principal Investigators - Ensure
project adherence in the field to general research design, sample
selection, data management and analysis, and overall project management - Responsible
for overseeing project financial management, including creation and
monitoring of project budgets, and ensure smooth integration of projects
into IPA financial systems - Work
closely with field office staff to ensure sound human resource and
operational management of projects - Directly
supervise project research staff (Research Associates and Field Managers),
and help with transitions, on-boarding of new research staff and
maintaining “institutional memory” of project activities - Ensure
that project deliverables, such as reports and financial statements, are
submitted to donors and partners on time - Manage
the training on data management and general project management for
new/incoming project research staff - Actively
promote inter-project best practices and take a lead in sharing best
practices with projects through formal and informal training opportunities - Serve
as the primary point of contact for data management and analysis support
for project staff by serving as the link between projects and IPA
headquarters - Attend
meetings with local government officials and partners to ensure success of
both project specific and key IPA programmatic activities - When
requested, support the dissemination of results via presentations and
reports to academic and non-academic audiences - Technically
support the Country Director in the development of new research studies in
cooperation with principal investigators and partner organizations
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
ideal candidate for the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Research
Manager vacancy should hold a Master’s degree in related field, such as
development economics, public policy, public health, or education policy - At
least two years of research or project management experience - Strong
budgeting and financial management skills; experience with writing donor
reports and grant proposals - Advanced
experience with data management and applied statistics is desired - Prior
experience with electronic data collection platforms is also an added
advantage - Proven
ability to work with donors and/or partner organizations; experience with
grants management - Past
experience with presenting research findings at public forums, including
to non-research focused audiences, is preferred - Excellent
written and oral communication skills and complete fluency in English is
required - Past
experience supervising data collection, teams of field workers, survey
design and implementation and data management. Background in randomized
control trials is strongly preferred - Cultural
sensitivity and demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse constituencies
required; developing country experience required - Quantitative
skills; working knowledge of Stata is essential - An
desire to commit to this position for two years - Flexible
and proactive work ethic with a demonstrated interest in the vision and mission
of IPA
Please complete the Online
application at J-PAL/IPA
common application. Please select the position(s) you are interested in
applying for on the ‘Submit Application’ page. Please include two letters of
recommendation, statement of purpose (cover letter), CV, and transcripts. We
will consider your application even if you are unable to obtain reference
letters before the deadline, but please be advised that we will be requiring
them should you be invited for an interview. Please note that only short-listed
candidates will be contacted for an interview.
NB:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by email for interviews.
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