Summary of the role:
PxD seeks a dynamic, creative, and self-motivated Research Associate/Senior Research Associate to join a high-performing, flexible, and non-hierarchical team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to PxD’s new workstreams, collaborate closely with PxD and affiliated researchers, and play a key role in testing and refining innovative ideas. You will use rigorous methods to experiment, measure impact, and identify pathways to scale our programs.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about PxD's mission: to provide actionable insights and cost-effective, scalable services that help people in poverty improve their incomes and well-being sustainably.
This is an initial 1-year position, with the possibility of extension.
Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
The role will grow as you develop, but you will start by focusing on the following key responsibilities:
- Work with the team leadership and other colleagues in scoping, designing, piloting, and scaling evidence-backed digital agriculture services, including spending time with farmers in the field to ensure that services are closely aligned with user needs.
- Assist in the development and implementation of new research ideas and projects that support PxD’s programs and partners.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection (including farmer focus groups, interviews, and quantitative surveys) and data cleaning.
- Produce accurate and organized summaries of data, including basic analysis for descriptive statistics and simple regression analysis.
- Carry out literature reviews and other desk research, providing input on research questions and structure.
- Develop and update project documentation regularly.
- Support partner relations and work with external stakeholders to implement program operations.
- Support compliance with IRB protocols and relevant in-country research permission requirements.
- Contribute to funding proposals and project reports.
- Contribute and support internal and external communications to disseminate project results and research findings, including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations.
- Contribute to PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, international development, or closely related fields.
- Ability to draw inferences from data to identify pathways for program improvement (e.g., call center productivity, feedback of users to an SMS campaign, looking at usage statistics).
- Strong understanding of economics, econometrics, and familiarity with randomized evaluations.
- Excellent knowledge of Stata or R, or similar software for data analysis
- Experience in using SurveyCTO/ODK or a similar program for survey design.
- Ability to draw inferences from data to identify pathways for program improvement (e.g., call center productivity, feedback of users to an SMS campaign, looking at usage statistics).
- Experience in a multi-faceted role, with the ability to balance and prioritize across multiple projects and stakeholders.
- Understanding and application of research ethics for human subjects in the social sciences.
- Strong writing and oral communication skills in English, with attention to detail and advanced writing and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel to field sites in Kenya.
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