Position: Research Associate

Organization: J-PAL South Asia

Location: Chandigarh

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Overseeing implementation of the evaluation in accordance to the research design, in association with our partner organization.
• Maintaining relationships with partner organizations at both headquarters and field levels
• Designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot exercises, refining study design and surveying instruments.
• 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.
• Data cleaning and management
• Develop scripts in Stata to do analyse survey data and identify trends across time for all on going data collection efforts
• Review and vet project datasets and maintain an efficient data documentation system
• Work with other members of the team to reconcile any gaps or errors in the data
• Data anaylsis and synthesis
• Liase with members of the project team by sending them statistics as and when required
• Generate aggregated views of the data for various stakeholders – the Principal Investigators, donors and other partners
• Assist in documenting data collection efforts, including any issues and key decisions taken for improvements
• Assisting with data cleaning, preliminary data analysis, and preparation of documents and presentations for dissemination
• Reporting to PIs and Research Manager on all of the above mentioned activities.
• Maintain compliance with all J-PAL protocols and policies.

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields
• Experience-0-2 years, experience working in education sector preferred
• Excellent management/ organizational skills and able to solve unexpected problems
• Strong quantitative skills
• Working knowledge of Stata, Matlab/R (strongly preferred)
• Good understanding of RCTs
• Experience in working in rural areas
• Demonstrated experience managing a team
• Flexible, self-motivating, independent and manages multiple tasks efficiently
• Ability to deal with unstructured and changing environments
• Attention to detail

How to Apply

To apply for the above position, please visit the official careers page. Click here: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/research-associate-direct-benefit-transfers-electricity-punjab-j-pal-south-asia-job-000746

Note on Work Authorizations:

Candidates must have work authorization to work in India.