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  • Posted: Jul 3, 2019
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    Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the wor...
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    Research and Policy Coordinator

    Job Description

    • Work closely with IPA’s policy team to identify government stakeholders’ policy priorities;
    • Work in close coordination with government and operational partners to design strategies key to project scale-ups;
    • Coordinate with IPA Ghana’s research team to ensure that research findings are properly incorporated into scale-up strategies; and
    • Work closely with IPA Ghana’s Right-Fit Evidence (RFE) Manager to ensure that scale-up strategies include strong and relevant monitoring systems.
    • Ensure that lessons about implementation design are collected, synthesized, utilized, and communicated effectively;
    • Provide technical support to relevant stakeholders to develop detailed workplans, regularly assess performance, and make course corrections as necessary to keep scale-up efforts on schedule;
    • Provide input and support in the development of program materials such as program documents (policy framework, scale-up concept notes, Monitoring and & Evaluation tools);
    • Represent IPA Ghana in meetings and communication with relevant stakeholders;
    • Develop high-quality program reports as required;
    • Conduct detailed literature reviews of robust IPA and J-PAL studies that could potentially address policy needs in Ghana and may be relevant to test here;
    • Work in close coordination with government and operational partners to select and adapt programs for replication in Ghana;
    • Coordinate with IPA’s research teams to ensure that replication research design is grounded in academic findings;
    • Pro-actively reach out to interested academics to lead replication studies in Ghana; and
    • Work closely with the IPA Ghana Project Development team to identify potential funding opportunities and implementing partners for replication studies.

    Requirement/Skills

    • Master’s degree in international public policy, education, social science, or related fields.
    • 3-5 years of relevant work experience
    • Demonstrated leadership experience;
    • Highly proficient in complex work planning and project management;
    • Strong critical thinking and judgment to quickly identify problems and devise solutions as well as escalate matters as needed;
    • Skilled at building relationships with senior leaders and government officials and presenting technical opinions in an objective manner;
    • Ability to work independently and pro-actively with minimum oversight;
    • Proven ability to handle multiple diverse assignments at one time successfully complete assigned tasks and meet deadlines while conducting high-quality work;
    • Experience working in the education sector of a developing country, ideally in close interaction with government stakeholders
    • Ability to present information in a structured and insightful way, both in writing and orally
    • Passion for making data-driven decision a reality in the development sector
    • Good understanding of the education literature and education programs;
    • Experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection, management and analysis;
    • Experience in Ghana’s education sector;
    • Experience writing research proposals and fundraising

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