The RED Team is the nerve center behind IDinsight’s mission to conduct high-quality, technically accurate, rigorous, ethical, and transparent work. RED Team members are the sectoral specialists and methodological experts on client engagements. And it takes the lead on some of the most technically complex client engagements, such as the data science, data engineering and monitoring systems work. It is responsible for setting the technical standards and producing and maintaining the technical resources of the organization, while ensuring the technical professional development of all IDinsight staff.
To support RED Team leadership, the Operations Sr. Associate’s / Manager’s responsibilities will include:
Drive forward the RED Team Strategy
Help determine skills strengths and gaps on the RED Team as a whole
Drive recruitment processes for key hires on a rapidly growing team
Staff RED Team members on projects
Assign RED team members to projects based on specialization and capacity
Track members’ allocation and utilization
Facilitate knowledge/information management across RED Team and organization
Assist DSEM team with client development of high impact potential projects including coordination with regional teams across IDinsight
Help budget leads track team finances
Support the agenda-setting for weekly team meetings and annual retreats
Serve as the Ethics Review Committee Coordinator
Track project teams’ IRB and ethics review status
Track project publication status
Maintain the IDinsight public data repository, and supporting teams on publishing data to the repository
Assist the RED Team Director and DSEM Director with executing other important and time sensitive work streams as they arise.
This role will report directly to the RED Team Director and will interact regularly with the DSEM Directors and RED Team Operations. While being housed in the RED team, this position will also regularly interact with the IDinsight Global Operations team as well with the Chiefs of Staff of other IDinsight teams.
Qualifications
An ideal RED Team Operations Sr. Associate / Manager must:
Effectively manage complex strategic projects and operations from start to finish
Be proactive and organized
Have attention for detail, while being able to zoom out and understand the big picture
Be excited to create and deploy high-impact internal systems
Be able to navigate and build Excel documents / GoogleSheets like a pro
Have a knack for figuring out how new software systems work
Be able to write clearly and concisely
Have a sense of humor
A bonus would be if this teammate can already (or be able to learn how to) do the following:
Use Airtable to develop relational models, queries, views and dashboards
Be familiar with Stata, R, and Python or tools like GitHub
Professional Development
Skill and career development are core to IDinsight’s values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted highlights of teammates’ experiences. IDinsighters receive significant mentorship from IDinsight leadership, support from talented peers, and are given considerable autonomy when ready. They maintain professional development plans and are given “stretch” opportunities designed to strengthen a variety of skills. Real-time feedback is embedded in our culture and formal structure enables maximum professional growth.
Apply via :
alcareers-idinsight.icims.com
