Job Opening at Innovations for Poverty Action
ROLE: Advisor, Right-Fit Evidence Unit
Position Summary
The Right-Fit Evidence Unit, IPA’s fast-growing consulting team, helps organizations use data and evidence to learn, adapt, and become more cost-effective. The RFE Unit collaborates with IPA’s sector programs, policy, and national office teams.
This role allows you to interact closely with funders and implementers, inform policymaking, and make a difference! A Right-Fit Evidence Unit Advisor (RFE) is needed to help IPA Ghana provide technical assistance to funders and implementation partners to improve early childhood education data and evidence utilization.
A new RFE project offers an excellent opportunity to strengthen education systems in Education Evidence Labs, co-financing tools, and community-led education programs. Ghanaian and possibly Côte d’Ivoire education partners will learn from the Advisor. Facilitate learning agenda formulation, provide technical help, and lead country-level learning events to review success against key metrics and improve programming. The Advisor will inform the large funder’s portfolio internationally through synthesis and learning across different nations.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and present advisory and analytical deliverables, generally in slides or well-structured and entertaining reports, with the utmost communication efficiency.
- Help to implement partners with technical assistance: Host office hours and training sessions to enhance their MEL capacity.
- Monitor, evaluate, and learn (MEL) all funder portfolio activities in Ghana (and maybe Côte d’Ivoire): Help establish a learning agenda and MEL framework, synthesize implementer data, and maybe oversee IPA’s main data collection.
- Facilitate key stakeholder data-driven workshops: Plan and lead evidence-sharing and MEL-related capacity-building workshops with key funders, implementers, and academics.
- Design and lead external MEL workshops to build partner capability and ownership of long-term MEL practices.
- Lead MEL technical assistance project planning and management to ensure successful and timely work implementation. Strategically prioritize budgeted operations to aid financial management.
- Develop stakeholder partnerships and represent IPA Ghana in all engagements: Represent IPA Ghana in stakeholder meetings, arrange regular check-in meetings with important stakeholders (virtually and in stakeholder offices), and actively explore new partnerships with relevant stakeholders. This includes finding relevant connections, scheduling meetings, creating partnership cooperation concept notes and presentations, and engaging in regular communication to advance relationships.
- Create new IPA relationships to promote right-fit evidence. Help create future IPA and RFE collaborations by identifying and analyzing open difficulties for potential partner organizations (policymakers, implementers, and funders) and collaborating with an internal team to develop IPA-provided solutions. Attend business development meetings and write concept notes or proposals.
Qualifications Required
Education and Experience:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in economics, public policy, education, early childhood development, international development, or similar subjects;
- Two to five years of relevant job experience in M&E, education policy/programming, program management, organizational performance/R&D/operational research, management consulting, or other professional services.
- Excellent applicants who don’t meet this requirement may be considered.
Technical Skills:
- High analytical and intellectual thinking capabilities
- Statistics and data analysis (including Excel proficiency)
- Excellent client and presentation abilities. Structured and analytical writing and speaking skills.
Management of Stakeholders:
- Handled partner-organization relationships;
- Self-starter, enterprising, versatile, and a fast learner.
Skills in Project Management:
- Manage projects and budgets; pay attention to detail
- Ability to efficiently manage and arrange multiple work streams.
Other:
- located in Ghana or willing to move there;
- Ready to travel throughout Ghana and maybe West Africa;
- Love implementing data-driven international development decisions
Preferred
- Master’s in education, economics, public policy, social science, or similar discipline
- Experience with NGOs or major government programs, especially early childhood development
- Work and live in impoverished countries, such as Ghana or West Africa
- Understanding the Theory of Change and M&E tools (quantitative and qualitative research)
- Understanding global education metrics, especially for early childhood development
- Knowledge of global early childhood development literature
- Experience with SurveyCTO, Open Data Kit, or comparable survey software
- Ability to utilize Stata, R, or comparable statistical software
Knowledge of randomized controlled trials;
- Experience creating high-quality donor/external stakeholder narratives;
- French proficiency is preferred but not needed.
About IPA
The research and policy nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) finds and promotes global poverty solutions. IPA collaborates with researchers and decision-makers to design, thoroughly analyze, and refine these solutions and their applications to better the lives of the world’s poor.
In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs to eliminate global poverty, yet convincing evidence of success is uncommon, and decision-makers rarely hear about it. IPA connects top researchers with decision-makers to guarantee our evidence has a real impact. Over 600 top academics have conducted over 900 evaluations in 52 countries with IPA since 2002. This research inspired hundreds of successful projects that affect millions of people globally.
How to Apply for this Innovations for Poverty Action Job
Closing Date: January 22, 2024
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