Deadline: Not specified
Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) has announced a vacancy for the role of Research Manager.
IPA is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations of research projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards
- Keep the country directors informed of all developments on the projects in their portfolio and serve as the vital link between the field office, project staff, and principal investigators
- Ensure project adherence in the field, sample selection, data management, and analysis, and overall project management
- Keep track of progress and delays of all assigned assessments throughout the research cycle
- Ensure that delays or identified challenges for specific reviews are promptly reported in writing and orally
- Ensure that projects under supervision adhere to all IPA policies and procedures, both at the global and country office levels
- Play a crucial role in identifying new research opportunities and contributing to the design of innovative studies addressing poverty-related challenges
- Support the country directors in the development of new research studies in cooperation with principal investigators and partner organisations
- Oversee project financial management, including creation and monitoring of project budgets, and ensure smooth integration of projects into IPA financial systems
- Maintain an oversight of budget availability and expenditure for assessment activities
- Conduct induction for new staff members, including training in basic technical competencies for assessment design, implementation, and analysis
- Work with field office staff to ensure sound human resource and operational management of projects
- Be responsible for supervising and appraising project staff
- Be available to provide regular support and technical backstopping
- Build and maintain relationships with donors, government agencies, NGOs, and other relevant stakeholders
- Attend meetings with local government officials and partners to ensure the success of both project-specific and key IPA programmatic activities
- Ensure that external communications with partners and key stakeholders, including relevant local and government and NGOs have been conducted and documented as appropriate
- Oversee data collection and reporting to derive meaningful insights from research findings
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Development Economics, Public Policy, Public Health, or Education Policy
- Four years of research or project management experience in collaborating with and managing people remotely
- Strong budgeting and financial management skills; experience with writing donor reports and grant proposals
- Strong written and oral communication skills and complete fluency in the English language (French is an added advantage)
- Experience supervising data collection, team of field workers, survey design and implementation, and data management (background in randomised control trials is strongly preferred)
- Cultural sensitivity and demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse constituencies
- Developing country experience
- Working knowledge of Stata
- Desire to commit to this position for two years
- Flexible and proactive work ethic with demonstrated interest in the vision and mission of IPA
- Advanced experience with data management and applied statistics
- Experience with electronic data collection platforms
- Demonstrated ability to work with donors and/or partner organisations; experience with grants management
- Experience with presenting research findings in public forums, including to non-research-focused audiences
To apply and for more information, click here.
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