Research Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems.
- IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.
- In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it.
IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world.
- Since its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 830 evaluations in 52 countries.
- This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.
- IPA’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Research Associate
Location: Abuja
Reports to: Research Manager
Job Summary
- The Research Associate (RA) will lead the data collection and management of research projects within the Nigeria Country Office under the supervision of the Research Manager.
- The RA will supervise project field staff, including the field managers, supervisors and enumerators, while ensuring timely submission of deliverables to donors and partners.
- The Research Associate will perform a variety of tasks related to managing day-to-day research activities, from planning to implementation and monitoring research data quality.
These include, but are not limited to:
Responsibilities
Project Management:
Programming survey instruments in SurveyCTO, following programming best practices.
- Supervising and monitoring data collection to ensure the high quality of the data.
- Implementing data quality checks and fixing issues with data collected during data collection.
- Managing project finances including budgeting, expense tracking, and financial reporting.
- Cleaning data on an ongoing basis.
Partner Engagement:
Handling day-to-day PI and partner communications.
- Providing timely updates and responses to partner organizations and participating in meetings with key stakeholders.
- Keeping the Research Manager apprised of all developments in the project and serve as the key link between the field staff, research team, and Principal Investigators.
Technical Leadership:
Prepare training materials and collaborate with the survey firm in conducting enumerator training and piloting instruments.
- Ensuring that all team members follow necessary protocols and procedures.
- Regularly communicate project updates to the Research Manager.
- Providing training and supervision for research project staff.
- Supporting the country office in project and policy development as needed
Analysis & Reporting:
Assisting preliminary analysis and ensuring ready access to all data for researchers.
- Documenting in detail all activities related to the project.
- Maintaining accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary.
- Preparing high-quality progress and results reports to Principal Investigators (PI), research partners, and funding agencies, and sharing them timely.
- Producing dissemination materials such as presentations, final reports, and evidence briefs.
- And other tasks that may be assigned by the Research Manager.
Requirements
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Public Policy, Social Science, or a related field; graduate Degree strongly preferred.
- 2-5 years of relevant work experience, including experience in economics research, impact evaluations, international development.
- Advanced Stata competency.
- Experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Experience managing field data collection.
- Strong professional writing skills.
- Strong client-facing and presentation skills.
- Fluency in English.
- Self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset, versatility, and ability to learn at a fast pace.
- Passion for making data-driven decisions a reality in the international development sector.
- Experience with research project management in Nigeria.
Experience in randomized control trials.
Travel Requirements:
- Expect to spend at least 50% of the time in the study sites during data collection periods.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link
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