Research Associate - Frontiers of Graduation

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About the Organization

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.

Job Description

J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research seeks qualified applicants for the position of Research Associate (RA). The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand field management and research experience in an organization undertaking cutting-edge development research. The RA will report to the Research Manager and work closely with the Principal Investigators (PIs).

The RA will be based out of Patna, and work out of the JEEViKA office. The RA will represent the research team on the ground and play a critical role to implement the research project. Further, the RA needs to be experienced and very comfortable in conducting fieldwork, desk analysis and literature reviews, and maintaining strong relationships with the partner organization (Government).

Job Responsibilities

Research Associates work closely with academic researchers and other field staff to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:

• Designing survey instruments, conducting qualitative research/scoping exercise and refining study design
• Managing teams: Train and supervise both field-based and data operations teams consisting of project assistants, field managers, field-based surveyors, data entry operators and other field and office staff
• Travel to project sites to monitor and coordinate field activities for primary data collection during intervention monitoring
• Overseeing the implementation of the evaluation in accordance to the research design in association with our partner organizations
• Ensuring that the project complies with IRB and JPAL data collection and security protocols
• Engaging with and managing relationships with stakeholders.
• Maintaining relationship with partner organizations at various levels as required in the project
• Coordinating with teams across different verticals within JPAL on a variety of operational tasks
• Supervising data collection and data-entry, and ensuring data quality and productivity
• Assisting with data cleaning, coding, preliminary data analysis, and preparation of documents and presentations for dissemination
• Assisting in the preparation of documents and presentations for donor reporting as well as dissemination activities
• Maintain compliance with all J-PAL protocols and policies
• Reporting to RM and PI on all of the above-mentioned activities and any other work assigned

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in economics, political science, education, public policy, international development, or other related fields is required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Relevant Experience- 1 year or more
• Experience of field work
• Prior experience in conducting evaluation assessments and qualitative studies (scoping exercise)
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-level relationships with partner organizations. Experience of working with Government stakeholders strongly preferred
• Willingness to travel
• Excellent management/ organizational skills and able to solve unexpected problems
• Knowledge of NVivo/ ATLAS.ti (preferred)
• Familiarity with RCTs
• Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and team player
• Ability to deal with unstructured and dynamic environments

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