Associate Director - Vacancy at Innovations for Poverty Action in New Haven, Connecticut.,USA

Post:Associate Director -
Organization:Innovations for Poverty Action
Location:New Haven, Connecticut.
Country: United States
Opportunity Type: Job
 About the Organization:

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization. It is based in New Haven, CT, with offices in Washington, D.C. and worldwide. It works with partner organizations and academic researchers to create and evaluate approaches to solving development problems, to communicate “what works” in development and to scale up successful projects in a variety of fields, including health, education, finance, governance and agriculture.

About the Job:
IPA is seeking an Associate Director - Global Financial Inclusion and Post Conflict Recovery Research Initiatives. S/he will support two research initiatives, the global financial inclusion initiative (GFII) and the post conflict recovery initiative (PCRI). S/he will play a key role in the expansion of each initiative by engaging in the development and management of new projects. This position is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

•     Support the scale-up of commitment savings (50%):
•         Seek out and follow up on donor conversations to expand commitment savings scale-ups;
•         Seek out and grow partnerships and relationships with potential partner institutions and stakeholders worldwide;
•         Coordinate the development of communications materials for commitment savings scale-up efforts; and
•         Travel domestically and internationally to represent organization at conferences and in support of partnership and funding development.
•     Support the expansion of post-conflict recovery initiative (40%):
•         Develop and refine the reintegration-focused initiative research agenda in collaboration with current initiative director, principal investigators, and other stakeholders;
•         Develop on outreach and communication materials for the initiative;
•         Support a shift in the geographic focus of the initiative through project development in new countries;
•         Conduct financial oversight and fundraising for the initiative’s reintegration and recovery portfolio and other projects in collaboration;
•         Develop a stronger network of PCRI donors, partner institutions and collaborators;
•         Represent the initiative and organization to important stakeholders;
•         Initiate the development of new research including engaging with researchers and organization or JPAL field offices on the technical design and funding support for reintegration projects;
•         Work with organization and JPAL field office staff and partner organizations on the management of impact evaluations;
•         Oversee interns and staff working on initiative project implementation, reports, and other tasks, while ensuring adherence to organization's research protocols.
•     Research management - character development among ultra-poor Filipinos (10%):
•         Coordinate and assist with revisions of funding proposals and donor reports for the project;
•         Manage communication and coordinate among the Philippines country team, partner organization, and other relevant actors;
•         Assist principle investigators with ongoing research management, dissemination, and reporting tasks on this project as directed;
•         Perform other tasks a necessary to support the research initiatives and projects.

Qualifications:

•     Master’s degree in public health, public policy or related social sciences;
•     At least 3 years’ experience overseeing multiple complex RCTs in the field and coordinating multiple projects, staff, and systems simultaneously in a developing country;
•     History of success working as part of a team to procure large grants for rigorous evaluation;
•     Experience with and in-depth understanding of organization’s commitment savings portfolio and past research efforts on savings;
•     Experience with and in-depth understanding of conducting RCT field research in the developing world, including conflict-affected areas;
•     Demonstrated experience collaborating with PIs and developing and managing high-level partnerships with institutions, donors, and government officials for evaluations in multiple sectors;
•     In-depth understanding of poverty in the Philippine context;
•     Excellent communication skills in English. Tagalog and Spanish proficiency a plus;
•     U.S. work authorization required.

How to Apply
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.11.192110