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## Senior Research Associate – Precision Development
**About The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)**
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center dedicated to reducing poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. With a network of over 1,000 researchers at universities worldwide, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to address critical questions in the fight against poverty.
**About PxD**
PxD is a global non-profit that leverages technology, data science, and behavioral economics to deliver targeted information to farmers in low and middle-income countries. By providing the right information to the right people at the right time, PxD increases incomes, protects the environment, and improves well-being. PxD’s activities in India are implemented in partnership with Behaviour Change Advisory Services (BCAS) LLP.
**Job Location:** India
**Experience Required:**
* Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, international development, or closely related fields.
* Strong understanding of economics, econometrics, and familiarity with randomized evaluations.
* Excellent knowledge of Stata or R or similar software for data analysis.
* Experience working on field research in economics in LMIC countries.
* Experience in using Survey CTO/ODK or a similar program for survey design.
* Ability to draw inferences from data to identify pathways for program improvement.
* Experience in a multi-faceted role, with the ability to balance and prioritize across multiple projects and stakeholders.
* Strong writing and oral communication skills in English, with attention to detail and advanced writing and presentation skills.
* Proficiency in Hindi is required. Knowledge of any other Indian language is a plus.
* Experience working with government agencies.
* Willingness to travel to field sites in India.
**Responsibilities:**
* Work with team leadership and colleagues in scoping, designing, piloting, and scaling evidence-backed digital agriculture services, including spending time with farmers in the field to ensure services are closely aligned with user needs.
* Conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection (including farmer focus groups, interviews, and quantitative surveys) and data cleaning.
* Produce accurate and organized summaries of data, including basic analysis for descriptive statistics and simple regression analysis, and contribute to report writing.
* Carry out literature reviews and other desk research, providing input on research questions and structure.
* Develop and update project documentation regularly.
* Assist in managing partner relations and working with external stakeholders for the implementation of program operations.
* Contribute and support internal and external communications to disseminate project results and research findings, including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations.
* Contribute to PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts.
**Job Description:**
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