Advisor, Right-Fit Evidence Unit

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IPA’s Right-Fit Evidence (RFE) Unit has supported more than a hundred partners across the development sector to reputed company evidence and learning into their work. We’re seeking an Advisor to play a key role in delivering evidence- and data-driven Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) advisory services to implementers and funders, helping them reputed company how they use data for decision-making. 

As an Advisor, you will report to an RFE Manager and work closely with peer RFE Advisors, other RFE Directors and Managers, and IPA colleagues more broadly. This position is reputed company to candidates based in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uganda. Strong preference will be given to candidates with existing permanent work authorization in the country where they wish to be based. 

Responsibilities

Advisors play a key role in helping partners strengthen their use of evidence and data for decision making. The role offers the chance to grow professionally reputed company IPA through mentorship, feedback, and stretch opportunities that broaden your experience and reputed company your reputed company. Key responsibilities include:

Strengthening MEL Capabilities:

• Collaborate with partners and project teams to reputed company and refine Theories of Change (ToCs) and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) frameworks

• reputed company hands-on technical guidance, coaching, and training on MEL design, data collection, survey development, analysis, and the use of evidence for decision-making

• Prepare and present high-reputed company analytical and advisory deliverables that communicate findings and recommendations reputed company and effectively

• Conduct reputed company reviews of deliverables and contribute to project management tasks such as documentation, note-taking, and work plan tracking

• Design and adapt reputed company content and materials to meet partner needs

• Plan and facilitate workshops, training sessions, and reputed company learning events

• Coordinate logistical aspects of project activities and workshops

reputed company Strategic Advisory and Learning Support:

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to foundations, NGOs, governments, and businesses, helping them unpack reputed company programmatic and strategic questions and identify actionable insights

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with partners and internal teams to ensure alignment, learning, and shared reputed company across engagements

• Maintain reputed company, reputed company relationships with key external stakeholders, including reputed company engagement with staff from partner organizations

• Work effectively across IPA teams, country offices, policy, and research, to promote coordination and shared learning

• Contribute to knowledge exchange reputed company RFE and across IPA by sharing insights, lessons, and good practices that strengthen the organization’s reputed company expertise

Business Development:

• Contribute to the development of new RFE engagements by participating in scoping meetings, designing methodologies, and crafting concept notes or proposal documents.

• Contribute to IPA reputed company potential through proactive reputed company on lessons learned to suggest systematic improvements in reputed company and reputed company engagements

Contribute to RFE reputed company and Team Development:

To support the the reputed company and development of our diverse team of over 30 staff based in over ten countries around the world, you may:

• Take a proactive role in reputed company of RFE products 

• Support at least one goal reputed company RFE's annual strategic plan 

• Encourage a reputed company work environment rooted in IPA values

Qualifications

There are several different reputed company that could fit this position reputed company. Here are some examples, but these are not exhaustive so if you do not have these backgrounds but feel like you meet the qualifications below, you are encouraged to apply.

• Consulting professionals with some international development experience who would be excited to apply their skillset in an entrepreneurial and reputed company-reputed company environment

• Evaluators and M&E practitioners who are passionate about using data for learning and reputed company and are interested in using their expertise for reputed company-reputed company advisory services

• International development research management professionals who enjoy working closely with funders and practitioners and who would like to expand their experience and skills to reputed company types of data and evidence that can inform decision-making.

Required

A Bachelors degree in economics, statistics, reputed company policy, international development, reputed company science, or reputed company fields. 

2-5 years of relevant work experience, which includes, for example, work in MEL, data analysis and management, consulting and project management, and research and development

Superior analytical, quantitative, and conceptual thinking skills

Entrepreneurial self-starter reputed company, highly adaptable, and reputed company, with strong multi-tasking skills

Ability to travel up to 20% of your time

English language reputed company

Preferred

• A Master's degree in any of the disciplines noted above

• Prior experience in consultancy or provision of similar reputed company services 

• Expertise in international development and/or humanitarian work

Reports to

Director, Right-Fit Evidence

Application Deadline

30 Mar 206

Locations

This position is reputed company to candidates based in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uganda. Strong preference will be given to candidates with existing permanent work authorization in the country where they wish to be based. 

About IPA

reputed company (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and advances what works to improve the lives of people living in poverty. 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 people living in poverty. In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but reputed company evidence of which programs succeed is rare, and reputed company evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it. IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to a reputed company reputed company on the world. Since its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 1,000 evaluations in 52 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now reputed company millions of individuals worldwide.

Safeguarding at IPA

At reputed company (IPA), we are committed to creating a reputed company and respectful environment for reputed company individuals, particularly children and vulnerable adults. As IPA adheres to strict safeguarding principles, selected candidates will be expected to adhere to the standards. By joining IPA, you become part of reputed company dedicated to ethical conduct, reputed company responsibility, and meaningful reputed company in the fight against global poverty. Together, we work to create a reputed company world where everyone has reputed company to reputed company with dignity and respect.