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IDinsight

Designs and deploys evidence-generating tools.

Junior Economist

Social & Behavioral SciencesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • An undergraduate degree in economics, econometrics, statistics, political science, or public policy is required.
  • Significant experience with Stata or R is required.
  • The candidate must have strong quantitative and critical-thinking skills.
  • The candidate should demonstrate initiative and take ownership in a start-up environment.
  • The candidate should have intellectual curiosity.

Responsibilities

  • Code primarily in Stata and/or R and ensure the quality of research design, implementation, and outputs.
  • Estimate required sample sizes for monitoring and evaluation activities, develop code for impact evaluation designs such as random assignment and matching, and program SurveyCTO questionnaires for digital data collection.
  • Write code to ensure high data quality and manage data.
  • Conduct statistical analysis of datasets to produce results that inform recommendations and decisions.
  • Present results for clients using clear graphs, charts, tables, maps, and other visualizations.
  • Review code written by others on the project team to ensure its quality.
  • Prepare data for publication in IDinsight’s data repository and prepare manuscripts for reports and academic journal articles.
  • Build dashboards and data visualization tools to track key performance indicators.
  • Work with culturally and geographically diverse project teams distributed across the globe.
  • Provide individualized technical support to IDinsight Associates and periodically lead scheduled and ad-hoc technical training.
  • Fulfill responsibilities professionally and meet strict deadlines.
  • Propose, design, and implement initiatives that support project teams and increase the technical rigor of IDinsight’s work.
  • Maintain a self-directed professional development plan and take on stretch opportunities to strengthen professional skills.
  • Potentially protect a small portion of time to work on an individual research agenda.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least 2 years of relevant work experience, including experience with empirical evaluations and research, is preferred.
  • Experience with additional programming languages is a plus.

About the Company

IDinsight

Designs and deploys evidence-generating tools.

IDinsight helps leaders combat poverty by designing, deploying, and promoting evidence-generating tools tailored to partner needs. Its products include experimental evaluations, monitoring systems, data analytics and visualization, process evaluations, and machine learning to generate timely, actionable information for governments, NGOs, foundations, and social businesses across Africa and Asia in health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, finance, energy, and governance. The company delivers rigorous, cost-effective, and demand-driven solutions, ensuring every dollar spent on data work supports impact and aligns with client decision deadlines. Its approach blends evidence with action in nearly two dozen countries, with a team of over 150 staff. The goal is to help clients fuse robust data insights with program decisions to reduce poverty and improve outcomes.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$1.1M
Headquarters
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Founded
2003

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