Job Opportunities at International Rescue Committee

Project management

• Create and track contracts, purchase orders, invoices, payments, and funds transfers. 
• Track project revenue/spending against budgets.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings (e.g., monthly and quarterly Dioptra consortium working group, BUR team weekly meetings), including notetaking, follow-up engagements, and tracking action points.
• Maintain consortium folders, coordinate with consortium partners to migrate all folders to a secure workspace.
• Ensure users adhere to project and knowledge management guidance and, as needed, revise guidance.

Software management

• Support consortium partners with software configuration, troubleshooting, and user queries.
• Manage software sprints according to budgets and timelines. 
• Coordinate with consortium partners and software developers to test software features, issues, and fixes.
• Facilitate communication of software technical details between consortium partners and software developers.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and data protection within the software. 
• Update software documentation with new release notes and help pages.
• Update the BUR and Dioptra websites.

Communications and reporting

• Track reporting requirements
• Draft reports and communications collateral
• Copy-edit public-facing collateral (e.g., research reports)

Job Requirements
Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or one or more of the positions’ focus areas, or equivalent professional experience;
• 2-3 years of similar work experience.

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This position will provide research and technical assistance to priority interventions, including analyses as part of research evaluations, and cost modeling for country teams. In addition, this position will support synthesis of cost evidence for development of recommendations, project design, programmatic guidance, and other technical and advocacy documents.

Major Responsibilities

• Conduct cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses for priority interventions.
• Contribute to scenario modeling analyses of the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of different programs across contexts and scales. Understand the decision-making needs of counterparts and develop modelling plans that best address these questions given data constraints.
• Work under supervision to execute research plans, including collation necessary monitoring and cost data.
• Work collaboratively with country-based staff and technical teams, proactively identifying and solving risks to analysis quality as they arise.
• Support the development of program-specific databases of cost data. Relate cost results with evidence on the effectiveness of programs generated by the Airbel research team and external literature.
• Provide input to evidence syntheses within a given focus area, support the development of evidence recommendations and shared organizational learning around the cost of programs.
• Provide research design and pre-award support to the development of proposals, working with finance and program teams to integrate cost data and review proposal budgets for alignment with workplans and targets.
• Contribute to project reporting, including writing reports, delivering presentations, supporting communications staff, and contributing to broader BUR/IRC reports.
• Support overall research design, operations, and strategy across a given focus area, completing other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:  
Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, a related field, or equivalent professional experience;
• 2-3 years of similar work experience; 1 year in LMICs strongly preferred.