Job Opportunity for Policy Associate – Gender – J-PAL South Asia At J-Pal In India

Key Responsibilities

Support the Policy Team in its mission of promoting evidence-informed policy in the Gender

Sector: 

This will entail understanding, summarizing, and supporting the generation and dissemination of J-PAL evidence in the Gender sector. To this end, the Policy Associate will support:

Evidence Generation: 

This would involve:

• Supporting efforts to understand and document the policy landscape in the Gender sector;
• Catalysing new randomized evaluation research by matching innovative projects in the region with J-PAL affiliated researchers in the sector;
• Coordinating project development activities for new projects, such as the development of timelines, budgets, and proposals, ensuring adherence to J-PAL standards and protocols
• Evidence Synthesis and Dissemination: This would involve:
• Drafting internal reference materials and policy outreach materials summarizing evidence from J-PAL evaluations related to the Gender sector (e.g., summaries, briefs, policy memos, concept notes, letters, presentations) in clear, accurate, and non-technical language;
• Support evidence dissemination activities by curating customized decks and synthesising evidence notes that can be used to present J-PAL’s Gender evidence to relevant actors like civil society organisations, donors, governments, and other organisations;
• Track policy developments in the Gender sector and communicate these developments internally to the team;  
• Support efforts to prepare senior management for meetings with background research and meeting notes/memos.
• Help organize policy outreach events and workshops to advocate for evidence-based decision-making.
• Institutionalising an evidence-based approach to policy: Support the work on new and existing strategic partnerships between J-PAL SA and Indian central and state government partners aimed at institutionalizing a data and evidence-informed approach to policy decisions in the sector

Scale-ups: This would involve:

• Support the development of an evidence-based implementation toolkit as part of J-PAL SA’s effort to develop our evidence to policy pipeline on issues relating to gender.
• Support identification of any new evidence-based scale-up programs in the Gender sector by working closely with relevant partners and J-PAL SA’s scale-ups team;
• Provide additional support to the Policy Team as required:
• Provide cross-sectoral support to further J-PAL’s mission to ensure policy-making is driven by rigorous evidence;
• Support J-PAL SA in the curation of public goods within the Policy vertical as well as other verticals as required.
  Qualifications

Education:

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (preferably in economics, public policy, gender, or a related social science field).
Experience:

 This position requires 0-1 years of relevant experience in addition to a relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
Interest:

 Demonstrated interest and/or experience in areas relating to gender is strongly preferred;
Understanding of Randomized Evaluations:

A keen understanding of the randomized evaluation methodology in development research and its usefulness for policy decisions is desirable;
Skills and Competencies: 

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills;
• Attention to detail and excellent writing and presentation skills for communicating policy lessons
• from academic papers in ways that policymakers understand;
• Ability to handle several different projects/tasks at one time, successfully complete tasks assigned, and meet deadlines;
• Strong interest in international development policy, thematic areas of gender and sexuality, South
• Asia development, and/or program evaluation as demonstrated by coursework and professional experience;
  Language:

 Fluency in English (written and oral).