Website J-Pal
Key responsibilities:
- Managing teams: Recruit, 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.
- Designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot exercises, refining study design and surveying instruments.
- Supervising data collection and data-entry, and ensuring data quality and productivity.
- Maintaining relationships with partner organizations.
Data cleaning and management: - Develop scripts in Stata to analyze survey data, clean data and identify trends across time for all ongoing data collection efforts.
- Review and vet project datasets and maintain an efficient data documentation system
- Work with other members of the team to reconcile any gaps or errors in the data
- Data analysis and synthesis
- Liaise with members of the project team by sending them statistics as and when required
- Generate aggregated views of the data for various stakeholders – the Principal Investigators, government and other partners
- Assist in documenting data collection efforts, including any issues and key decisions taken for improvements
- Assisting in preparation of documents and presentations with graphs and tables for partner organization, donor reporting as well as dissemination activities.
- Maintain compliance with all J-PAL protocols and policies with specific focus on all protocols and guidelines laid down by J-PAL admin and finance, and research operations verticals.
- Any other task as assigned by the Research Manager, AD Research or ED
Qualifications: - Proficiency in English and Hindi (required)Prior fieldwork experience (required)
- Demonstrable ability in Stata (required)
- Willingness to travel within assigned state (required)Proficiency in Odia (preferred)
- Qualitative research skills in interviewing and/or focus group discussions (desired)
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please click on the apply button on the JD here; the first-time users will be asked to sign up and upload the CV, cover letter, and academic transcripts (optional).
For any queries, please write to recruitment.jpalsa@ifmr.ac.in.
To apply for this job please visit www.povertyactionlab.org.
