Project Associate for a microfinance project
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Location: Naga City, Philippines
Last Date: December 18. 2010
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
seeks a qualified applicant for the position of Project Associate for a
microfinance project in the Philippines entitled,
Agricultural Micro-Insurance: Overcoming Information Problems and Understanding
Informal Linkages.
The position
offers an opportunity to gain first-hand field management experience
in an organization undertaking cutting-edge
development research. This position is located in Naga City, Philippines,
and the Principle Investigators are Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Chris Udry, and
Gharad Bryan.
Project Associates
work closely with
academic researchers and other field staff to perform a variety tasks including,
but not limited to: designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative
research, running pilot exercise, refining study design and surveying
instruments, managing survey teams, negotiating contracts with survey firms,
checking and analyzing data, cleaning data and
assisting in preliminary analysis, assisting in the writing of project reports
and policy memos and coordinating with local partners running the
programs being evaluated.
Desired
Qualifications and Experience:
• A Bachelor's Degree in
economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields
• Experience living in a developing country is a strong plus
• Excellent management and organizational skills along with strong quantitative
skills
• Fluency and excellent communication skills in English
• Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and team
player
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-level relationships with partner
organizations
• Knowledge of Stata (strongly preferred) or other data analysis software is
preferred.
• Familiarity with randomized controlled trials preferred.
We are looking for a commitment period of two years for this position,
which we expect to start in or around February 2011
If
you are interested, please do two things:
1.
Complete the J-PAL/IPA common
application (http://www.apply.povertyactionlab.org/apply/login)
indicating that you are interested in applying for a "Type 1" position.
2.
Send an email to
jpaljobs@gmail.com, following these instructions
exactly:
In the subject line:
Put your full name, first (given) name
followed by last (family) name.
Attachments:
Please attach ONLY your CV.
In the email body:
Copy exactly the following position line:
100279IPAUSA Project Associate, Agricultural Micro-Insurance
Please do
not include any text besides the position line(s) in the body of the e-mail.
Adding extra text will interfere with the processing of your application.
If you are applying to
multiple positions, you can put multiple positions lines in the same email. And
you may send multiple such emails. However, please do not do this for more than
10 positions per every 6 month period. So, if you put 10 position lines in one
email, then that counts as ten. Or if you put 4 in one email, and 6 in another,
that also counts as ten.
J-PAL and IPA work
closely together to conduct rigorous impact evaluations to test and improve the
effectiveness of poverty reduction programs. Only short-listed candidates will
be contacted for an interview.
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