Intern - Knowledge Management at Precision Development (PxD)

PxD is looking for a self-motivated and independent person to join our team as an Intern - Knowledge Management. The successful candidate will contribute to PxD's core work, providing timely, deeply customized, and localized agricultural advisory to millions of smallholder farmers. The Intern will help us improve our knowledge management resources with a focus on the PxD Experiment Registry, an online custom-built tool for documenting PxD's experimental research projects, including a/b tests and impact evaluations, in order to generate program insights. 

This is an exciting opportunity for driven and detail-oriented people to have a significant influence on PxD’s organizational impact, as part of a high performing and non-hierarchical team. The successful candidate will have the opportunities to work at the intersection of policy, implementation, and research.

Responsibilities could include (but are not limited to):

• Perform in-depth quality control of experimental research documentation on PxD’s Experiment Registry to prepare to make it public.
• Rigorously test and offer suggestions for improvement of internal AI tools to generate accurate and useful research insights.
• Synthesize insights from PxD experiments and research results to generate text that can be included in concept notes, project proposals, webpages, and strategy documents. 
• Write reports and blogs.

The ideal candidate for this internship placement has many or all of the following: 

• Bachelors or Graduate (ongoing) degree in public policy, development studies, or related fields (e.g. economics, MPA, MPP etc.).
• Solid understanding of causal research methods
• Strong organization skills and exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent writing skills, particularly for social science research
• Interest in AI tools