Website Poverty Action Lab
Key Responsibilities:
- This is a very high ownership role, where your work will majorly involve supporting other RAs in project management in addition to cleaning and analyzing the data collected from the field on a regular basis.
- The RA will principally work on writing code to optimize the design of large-scale randomized controlled trials and to analyze and interpret their results while also handling field-team operations.
- This is a unique position, offering the opportunity to work on tough analytical problems around large-scale randomized evaluations and hone your data analysis skills.
Research Associates work closely with academic researchers and other field staff to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:
- Research Design and Data ManagementDesigning survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot/backchecking exercises, refining study design and survey instruments
- Ensuring that the project complies with research protocols related to data collection and security
- Supervising data collection and data entry to ensure good data quality
- Work with data sets, prepare and run codes regularly for daily data cleaning and analysis in STATA
- Launching monthly dashboards displaying indicators from multiple data sources for the study participants of the RCT
- Assisting PIs in sampling, randomization and power calculation exercises, when needed
- Take ownership of daily data management trackers to ensure seamless flow of information for operational efficiency
- Ability to analyze and interpret data using statistical packages like STATA and produce output, including graphs and tables
- Managerial / OperationalMaintaining relationship with partner organizations at both headquarters and field levels
- 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
- Overseeing the on-ground implementation of the evaluation in accordance with the research design in association with our partner organization.
- Further, making sure the project is on track in terms of timelines
- Liaising with field staff running evaluations and collaborating with them including occasional travel to research field sites; focus of work is to advise on quality control of data collection practices
- CommunicationAssisting in preparation of documents and presentations with graphs and tables for partner organization, donor reporting as well as dissemination activities
- Daily meetings with PIs to share project progress updates
- Any other task as assigned by the PIs
Required Qualifications: - A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, education or related fields
- Proficiency in STATA and other statistical packages (non-negotiable)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Demonstrated ability to manage high-level relationships with partner organizations
- Have an entrepreneurial/start-up mindset: Ability to deal with unstructured and changing environments.
- Are action oriented, self-driven and flexible
- Attentive to detail, analytical, and can work across multiple-task efficiently as required
- Team oriented: Are a reliable team player and can work with a diverse set of people on a daily basis
- Ability to work independently and in rural field locations (travel to nearby field sites as required)
Willing to move to Erode, Tamil Nadu
Desired Qualifications : - Working proficiency in Tamil (strongly preferred)
- Familiarity with randomized controlled trials/clinical trials/quasi-experiments and development research preferred
- Experience working with rural enterprises
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.
