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Project Budget Specialist

About the Project Budget Specialist role
The Project Budget Specialist will prepare all IDinsight project budgets and will assist with project forecasting and financial reporting.
This position will report to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Project Budgeting & Forecasting

Prepare final project budgets for all IDinsight projects in the IDinsight template based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members
Own the project budget template and process and make improvements on an ongoing basis
Develop and populate a database to record typical costs in locations where we have run projects and for which we have submitted budgets, to facilitate accurate and efficient budget preparation
Liaise with the FP&A Lead who will review each project budget
Convert approved budgets to client templates as and when needed
Prepare quarterly budget estimates to complete for each project based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members
Provide global and specific training to project teams on the high level elements of budget preparation

Reporting & Analysis
Project level:

Contribute to the monthly process of updating the budget monitors (i.e. budget vs. actual reports)
Prepare project-level financial reports for the internal management use of IDinsight project teams and contractual obligations for external clients Prepare monthly staff utilization reports

Global:

Assist in the preparation of standardized monthly reports for donors in order to keep them updated on IDinsight’s financials
Prepare analysis and commentary on monthly functional dashboards
Assist in the preparation of ad hoc global reports for grant proposals
Contribute to the preparation of quarterly Finance Committee Documents

Other

Support other global financial and related tasks as and when required

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce, Financial Management, Economics, Public Administration, or other relevant areas required. Master’s degree in one of the above fields is helpful, but not required.
Professional qualification – CPA/ACA/ACCA part I or equivalent preferred.
5+ years of work experience in budgeting and/or financial planning and analysis for a mid-size (or larger) organization.

Skills and attributes:

Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills.
Strong problem solving and communication abilities; is organized and efficient.
Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
Proven ability to meet deadlines in a high-paced work environment.
Strong Project Management skills and ability to coordinate work of cross-functional teams.
Proactive and works with minimal supervision.
Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and QuickBooks (or other accounting software).
Willingness to take on all kinds of tasks and areas of responsibility, including at short notice.

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October 28, 2024
Project Budget Specialist Front End Engineer Data Visualization & Dashboard Specialist Senior Data Scientist – Multiple Locations

About the Project Budget Specialist role
The Project Budget Specialist will prepare all IDinsight project budgets and will assist with project forecasting and financial reporting.
This position will report to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Project Budgeting & Forecasting

Prepare final project budgets for all IDinsight projects in the IDinsight template based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members
Own the project budget template and process and make improvements on an ongoing basis
Develop and populate a database to record typical costs in locations where we have run projects and for which we have submitted budgets, to facilitate accurate and efficient budget preparation
Liaise with the FP&A Lead who will review each project budget
Convert approved budgets to client templates as and when needed
Prepare quarterly budget estimates to complete for each project based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members
Provide global and specific training to project teams on the high level elements of budget preparation

Reporting & Analysis
Project level:

Contribute to the monthly process of updating the budget monitors (i.e. budget vs. actual reports)
Prepare project-level financial reports for the internal management use of IDinsight project teams and contractual obligations for external clients Prepare monthly staff utilization reports

Global:

Assist in the preparation of standardized monthly reports for donors in order to keep them updated on IDinsight’s financials
Prepare analysis and commentary on monthly functional dashboards
Assist in the preparation of ad hoc global reports for grant proposals
Contribute to the preparation of quarterly Finance Committee Documents

Other:

Support other global financial and related tasks as and when required

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce, Financial Management, Economics, Public Administration, or other relevant areas required. Master’s degree in one of the above fields is helpful, but not required.
Professional qualification – CPA/ACA/ACCA part I or equivalent preferred.
5+ years of work experience in budgeting and/or financial planning and analysis for a mid-size (or larger) organization.

Skills and attributes:

Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills.
Strong problem solving and communication abilities; is organized and efficient.
Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
Proven ability to meet deadlines in a high-paced work environment.
Strong Project Management skills and ability to coordinate work of cross-functional teams.
Proactive and works with minimal supervision.
Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and QuickBooks (or other accounting software).
Willingness to take on all kinds of tasks and areas of responsibility, including at short notice.

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. Additionally, teammates have access to an annual professional development stipend that they are encouraged to utilize to explore their career interests and develop their skills.

Nuts & bolts
Location
This position is based in the following IDinsight’s offices:
New Delhi, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Lusaka, Zambia; Dakar, Senegal and Rabat, Morocco
Start date
The start date of this position is as soon as possible, with preference for candidates that can start immediately. We expect a 2-year minimum commitment, with regular professional development conversations and potential for a long-term career at IDinsight.
Work authorization
IDinsight is not able to sponsor work authorization for this role. Successful candidates will not require IDinsight to sponsor their work authorization in the office in which they’ll be based.
Compensation
Compensation and benefits are commensurate with the qualifications and experiences IDinsight is hiring for, and competitive within the global development sector. We are especially proud of the people-focused benefits we offer including comprehensive international health insurance, including mental health coverage; paid vacation, sick, and parental leave; relocation benefits; a travel stipend; technology and work from home stipends; a professional development budget; and more.
Please note, as a non-profit, we are unable to provide compensation similar to leading private sector organizations.

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October 28, 2024
Associate & Senior Associate

About the Associate & Senior Associate role
IDinsight Associates and Senior Associates are high-performing early-career professionals passionate to experience the front-line realities of evidence-informed decision-making. These roles provide a rich, varied experience with responsibilities ranging from in-depth research and analysis, data collection management, client interactions, and internal team building. We seek intellectually curious, resilient, and team-oriented individuals who – in addition to developing professional and technical skills – are highly motivated to grapple with the difficulties and unpredictability of trying to improve lives at scale.
Associates and Senior Associates are responsible for the following areas of work:
Managing project team workflow, systems, deliverables

Driving the day-to-day execution of the project work according to project plans and leading internal coordination efforts for their team
Conducting and supporting fit-for-decision and right-fit research design, data collection or acquisition, technical analysis, and results visualization/packaging, etc. for project tasks
Creating client deliverables, including reports, slide decks, and oral presentations to inform decisions and actions of clients
Developing strategic communications to build awareness of IDinsight projects and learnings, contribute to sectoral knowledge, and shift the sector towards more evidence-informed policy and practices

Supporting their team in developing strong client relationships

Engaging with client and stakeholder relationships
Contributing to client development, including developing proposals and concept notes

Leading data collection activities

Overseeing all data collection activities to ensure quality, including managing data collection teams
Traveling to project sites, IDinsight offices, embedded client locations, and other areas as per project needs

Contributing to internal team building

Developing, piloting, and implementing internal systems or other organizational contributions (e.g., event management) for IDinsight, in coordination with functional teams such as Operations, Communications, Finance, etc.
Contributing to office life and culture building, such as facilitating All Hands Meetings; participating in Social Cultural Committee events; and engaging with the DEI Working Group.

Examples of recent Associate and Senior Associate work streams include:

Embedding in several African and Indian governments to support evidence-based decision-making capabilities
Supporting household registration and post-distribution monitoring for the government’s COVID-19 Urban Cash Intervention response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi
Conducting remote, qualitative data collection to understand drivers and barriers to vaccine demand, and uncover possible approaches to better reach poor, rural adults with the Philippine Department of Health’s Bureau of Health Promotion Utilizing visual storytelling to lead Theory of Change workshops for an NGO-led digital menstrual health program for Senegalese young women and girls
Building a monitoring, evaluation, and learning system for Rockefeller Foundation’s Power and Climate Initiative that will influence the direction of their global strategy
Leading a multi-part process evaluation consisting of multiple rounds of phone surveys; qualitative interviews; analysis of administrative data; and an assessment of the quality of infrastructure for a government social protection program
Helping the Delhi Government collect high quality data on employment and unemployment in the city to estimate the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on livelihoods of Delhi’s residents through primary data collected from 9,900 households
Leading a process evaluation to understand the implementation of digital cash transfers and inform scale up plans with the United Nations Development Program and Pasig City Government (Philippines) as part of the city’s COVID-19 economic relief package
Supporting the creation of remote data collection infrastructure for IDinsight’s Africa regional project teams when in-person data collection was not possible
Participating in IDinsight’s internal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion working group on the Recruiting Committee, Careers & Promotions Committee, and/or the Work Culture Committee
Analyzing data from IDinsight’s recruitment processes for our Global Operations team

Associates learn professional, technical and life skills while working on some of the world’s most critical problems. No two experiences are the same. Some work deeply on one project for their entire program commitment, while others work across a variety of projects. Workstreams can immerse Associates in remote, front-line program contexts, deep statistical analyses, and/or high-level, strategic interactions.
Associates and Senior Associates will be staffed on IDinsight projects according to various factors including organizational need, timeline and availability, team dynamics, skills optimization, and professional growth and development. While we aim to factor in individual preferences whenever possible to staffing decisions, they are one of many factors in the project staffing process.
The Associate role is not a typical “9-5” job, and can require early mornings and late nights to accommodate the time zone differences of a dispersed team, as well as busy periods within project workflows. Associates work hard and so IDinsight encourages balance with flexible work hours and wellness benefits, including comprehensive mental health care support and organization-wide wellness days off. Many find this balance to yield rich professional and personal rewards, and therefore progress to more senior roles with IDinsight.
Career development
Skill and career development are core to IDinsight’s values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted highlights of the Associate and Senior Associate experience. Associates and Senior Associates receive significant mentorship from IDinsight leadership, support from talented peers, and earn considerable autonomy in their work. They maintain professional development plans and are given “stretch” opportunities designed to strengthen a variety of skills. Real-time feedback and structured reviews are regularly provided to enable maximum professional growth. Additionally, Associates and Senior Associates have access to an annual professional development stipend that they are encouraged to utilize to explore their career interests and develop their skills.
Alumni placement
The Associate and Senior Associate experience has prepared former IDinsighters for outstanding educational and professional paths. Associates have progressed to IDinsight management and leadership roles, started their own organizations, and joined leading private and non-profit institutions, such as Bain & Company, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Facebook, GiveDirectly, International Monetary Fund, Lyft, McKinsey & Company, One Acre Fund, SocialCops, and more.
Alumni have also enrolled in graduate and Ph.D. programs including Duke Sanford School of Public Policy; Columbia Business School; Harvard Business School; Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School; Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University; London School of Economics; MIT Sloan School of Management; Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; UCSF Medical School; Yale Law School; Yale School of Management, and more.
Qualifications
IDinsight Associates and Senior Associates come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including economics, data science, policy research, development projects, and more. Given that no Associate or Senior Associate comes in with the same exact background as another, we’re typically looking for candidates with a broad range of qualifications and former experiences. Here are some examples of the key qualifications most successful candidates should possess:
Knowledge, skills, and abilities

Strong analytical skills, with the exposure to (either via professional work experience or academic coursework) the basics of econometrics, data and research analysis tools, and quantitative and qualitative research processes or an ability to quickly understand these topics
Strong writing skills with the ability to translate technical jargon into well-structured, writing-based deliverables (e.g., policy briefs, project memos, analytical reports, external blog posts, and more)
Ability to understand complex concepts and topics quickly even with limited prior knowledge or exposure and a willingness to invest in learning new concepts, skills, and methods without being prompted

Behaviors and mindsets

Highly organized, attentive to deadlines, and able to manage a high volume of work with efficiency
Excellent interpersonal skills, can effectively engage with stakeholders ranging from school children to senior government officials to internal colleagues, and places a high value on being a teamplayer
Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter and fast learner; resourceful and resilient in the face of challenges
Intellectually curious and a willingness to share your opinions with the team, question the status quo, and encourage others to expand their perspectives

Additional preferred qualifications

Proficient in statistical analysis and data collection softwares, such as Stata, SPSS, R, SurveyCTO, and/or Open Data Kit
Deeply passionate about combating poverty worldwide and improving lives in disadvantaged populations
Willingness to travel for extended periods of time once COVID-19 allows, including to remote and rural areas
Fluency in the local language(s) of country placement

Candidates will be evaluated for an Associate vs. Senior Associate role based on their qualifications, previous experiences, and performance in the hiring processes. Additionally, candidates may be considered for other available roles based on experience and qualifications.

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October 28, 2024
Designer

About the Designer role
The Designer will be responsible for helping IDinsight ensure clear visual brand identity and consistent “look” and “feel” across all of its outputs. The Designer will both create content and work with teams to put systems in place that enable decentralized creation of outputs across regions. Among other responsibilities, the Designer will work with team members to produce visually compelling and highly engaging reports, presentations, infographics, and other content for both print and digital uses.
Responsibilities
The tasks assigned to this role include:
Design high-quality outputs:

Provide IDinsight team members with creative support to design visually compelling presentations, proposals, and reports for internal and external use.
Assist client-facing teams to create graphics that represent complex concepts, which may include illustrations
Develop high quality and creative designs for social media campaigns, newsletters, and the IDeas blog
Customize campaign toolkits, Powerpoint and Word templates, and social media templates in accordance with existing brand guidelines, ensuring all IDinsight documents are consistent
Manage external third-party design and other consultants to ensure all collateral aligns with IDinsight’s visual identity.
Ensure excellent visual execution, including light proofreading to ensure quality control

Create systems and resources:

Enable teams to create their own high-quality, consistent content by developing systems, templates, training, and guidelines for team members across regions.
Promote, enhance, and protect IDinsight’s brand integrity by ensuring a consistent visual identity that aligns with our brand guidelines.
Identify, source, and manage image databases as well as other graphic design elements that enhance the visual appeal of our communications and are easy for teams to access and use.

Qualifications
Graphic design experience

Mastery of design software and technologies (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva)
Intimate knowledge of presentation programs such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi and Keynote
Demonstrable graphic designing experience: a strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics
Familiarity with (Adobe) video &/or audio editing software a plus
A keen design eye for aesthetics and details
Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a graphics designer

Skills, mindsets, and behaviours

Ability to work within stipulated brand guidelines without compromising
Ability to work under pressure and handle a wide range of tasks and projects at the same time and to work methodically and meet deadlines
Exceptional attention to detail
Strong knowledge of English, written and spoken
Excellent communication skills
Understanding of global development and research and evaluation fields a plus

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. Additionally, teammates have access to an annual professional development stipend that they are encouraged to utilize to explore their career interests and develop their skills

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October 28, 2024
Africa Regional Operations Lead

About the Role:
The Africa Regional Operations Lead will lead all aspects of their operations as they grow, and ensure that their African offices are run like world-class organizations. He/she will report to the Regional Leads, support the office leads, and collaborate closely with IDinsight’s Global Operations team. They seek a self-starter who will be able to independently manage a wide range of autonomous work streams, and who is looking for a role that emphasizes execution, inspiring leadership, and people management. He/she will manage a team of multiple full-time administrative and operations staff in their respective offices (potentially hiring more people to the team as needs arise), as well as IDinsight client-facing staff who will dedicate a portion of their time to organization building.
Locations: Dakar, Lusaka, Nairobi, or Rabat
Key Responsibilities:

Ensure IDinsight Africa has best-in-class systems and policies in place, building on Global Operations’ platforms – As they grow, they want to stay lean and nimble while also ensuring that information is shared across the offices and staff have the tools they need to do their jobs. He/she will collect feedback from staff on where their current systems and policies are falling short, adapt their systems or design new ones, coordinate the roll-out of these new systems and policies, and ensure adherence. These systems may be in support of IDinsight’s client-facing social impact work, including project management, knowledge management, client development, or internal goal-tracking systems. They may also be people-related, including performance management, staffing, benefits, safety and security, and various policies.
Recruit and train excellent employees – The Africa Regional Operations Lead will oversee Africa-specific recruiting events and candidate screening, work with Africa leadership to set hiring goals, and conceive and write JDs for new roles. Some elements of they recruiting process, such as interviewing, are managed centrally and this person will coordinate with the Global Operations team on high-level talent strategies. The Africa Regional Operations Lead will oversee other Operations staff in running a comprehensive onboarding for new employees.
Ensure IDinsight’s Africa offices are great places to work – IDinsight prides itself on being a great place to work and as they grow, we want to keep the values and culture that have allowed us to provide this positive, efficient work environment. The Africa Regional Operations Lead will directly check-in with staff, coordinate team-building and professional development events, design and coordinate changes to the physical office environments, monitor and develop our ideal culture, and take other steps in conjunction with the Africa leadership team to make IDinsight’s Africa offices fantastic places to work.
Oversee project staffing across IDinsight’s Africa – The Africa Regional Operations Lead will act as a bridge between the operations team and the client-facing teams. He/she will be responsible for managing project staffing across our Africa offices, ensuring that project teams have the right personnel to maximise the social impact of our projects, and that teammates enjoy the work they do at IDinsight.
Problem solve as issues come up – As IDinsight is growing rapidly, various logistical or people-related issues may come up. The Africa Regional Operations Lead will be the go-to person for the region for problem solving. He/she is expected to understand the issue holistically, exercise judgment and tact, and develop and execute a clear action-plan. When required, he/she will escalate issues to other senior leadership members for consultation, and provide recommendations on a course of action.
Exemplify IDinsight’s mission and values – Ensuring a strong alignment between incoming Directors and IDinsight’s values is an important priority for us. Directors are the face of IDinsight both externally and internally and will be expected to always and unambiguously exemplify their mission and values.

Does this sound like you?

8+ years of work experience and proven track record of results and commitment to excellent output.
Proven ability to lead and motivate teams in a dynamic, multicultural environment.
Willingness to travel to all Africa offices at least twice per year (we will not expect immediate travel given the Covid-19 pandemic).
Passion for improving lives through evidence-informed policy.
Ability to conceive, execute, and lead strategic initiatives, but also high attention to detail and willingness to get his/her hands dirty on the nuts and bolts of running an organization.
Experience in a well-run global organization. Familiarity with latest research (in behavioral economics, organizational management, and other fields) on how to develop a best-in-class organization a plus.
Strong communication skills (ability to be clear, yet tactful).
Ability to navigate people and policy decisions with nuance and discretion.
Familiarity with MS Office, Google Docs, and ideally other relevant systems such as BambooHR, Asana, Slack, and SalesForce.
Fluency in English (French a plus).
At least an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 for humor.

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October 28, 2024
Graduate Student Internship

We seek leaders who are passionate about making a difference, possess exceptional analytical skills, and thrive in an entrepreneurial, developing country setting. The ideal graduate intern would be interested in joining IDinsight in a full-time role following their graduation and would take advantage of the graduate internship to identify a potential long-term role in the organization. Successful graduate interns are highly likely to be considered for roles at IDinsight upon graduation.
To maximize learning for the graduate intern and contribution to IDinsight, the graduate internship will be tailored to the specific interests and skills of the intern rather than committed to certain projects at this time. The graduate internship will likely involve a semi-autonomous project within a larger client engagement, which the intern will be responsible for leading with minimal to moderate support from supervisors. Potential projects will be discussed during the interview process. The graduate intern will receive significant support and mentorship from IDinsight leadership.
For any applicants aiming to seek university funding for this internship, please submit your application by 11:59 PM EST Sunday, 14 March 2021. This will allow us to review your applications in time for most university funding deadlines. For all other candidates, the application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM EST, Sunday, 28 March 2021.
Please note, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. More information, including spotlights of current and past teammates, can be found online at IDinsight Careers. Any questions should be directed to careers@IDinsight.org. IDinsight is an equal opportunity employer and strives to create a diverse and supportive workplace

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October 28, 2024
(Senior) Associate, Africa Executive Team

African Nationals and nationals of the above countries, in particular, are strongly encouraged to apply.
The (Senior) Associate, Africa Executive Team, will work closely with executive, client-facing, and operations teams on high-impact projects across the continent. They will be joining the Africa Executive team at a crucial time at which the region is aiming to build out the structures to support long-term growth, including partnerships, projects, and personnel. This is a role with visibility into the core parts of how our organization functions, and which will be key in contributing to the growth and impact of the Africa team.
About the (Senior) Associate, Africa Executive Team role
The Africa team is structured around three regional offices in Dakar, Senegal (for West and North Africa); Lusaka, Zambia (for Southern Africa); and Nairobi, Kenya (for East Africa), with project offices in Morocco, Malawi, and South Africa. The Africa team is over 50 teammates strong and poised for further growth in 2021 and beyond. The (Senior) Associate, Africa Executive Team, will work closely with executive, client-facing, and operations teams on high-impact projects across the continent. They will be joining the Africa Executive team at a crucial time at which the region is aiming to build out the structures to support long-term growth, including partnerships, projects, and personnel. This is a role with visibility into the core parts of how our organization functions, and which will be key in contributing to the growth and impact of the Africa team.
The Senior Associate, Africa Executive Team, will report to the Africa Chief of Staff, while also supporting our Office Leads and collaborating closely with IDinsight’s Africa Operations team. We seek a self-starter who will be able to independently manage a range of work-streams, who is looking for a role that emphasizes problem-solving, organization, and rapid execution, and who would be excited to develop the skillset of a Chief of Staff. This role is a particularly good fit for individuals that want to gain insights and experience relevant to how fast-paced, fast-growing non-profits are run.
 The Senior Associate, Africa Executive Team, will have the following responsibilities:

Implement strategic internal initiatives in partnership with the Chief of Staff. On-going and new initiatives include i) identifying ways to better measure and communicate IDinsight’s social impact, particularly on Learning Partnerships, ii) exploring new services through which IDinsight could add-value to clients, and iii) identifying ways to grow IDinsight’s presence on the continent.
Support Africa Senior Leadership in developing partnerships across the continent. This includes working with the Chief of Staff and Africa Leadership to identify potential new partners, conduct preliminary research, develop presentations, and join client development conversations. This also includes supporting Directors in building out concept notes and proposals for new IDinsight engagements.
Support Africa Senior Leadership in managing relationships with key funders and thought partners across the continent. This includes leading annual reporting for funding partners, exploring ways to deepen these relationships over time, developing ad-hoc communication materials, and proactively identifying ways in which IDinsight Africa can increase our social impact and reach across the continent.
Own, manage, and maintain the Africa Data Hub. This includes acting as central point-person for all information about current and pipeline projects being developed across the continent. They would be a key contributor to manage our project staffing across the continent, and would also act as a liaison between project teams, and global functions such as our executive, communications, innovations and Research, Evaluation and Data teams.
Optimize collaboration within the Africa team, and between the Africa Executive team and other IDinsight teams. This includes leading the agenda coordination, scheduling, pre-read compilation, and follow-ups for all internal calls with the CEO, COO, Africa Leadership, and other global teams. This would also include preparing Africa-specific material for board meetings, global calls, etc.

Qualifications

Ability to be solution-oriented and get a lot done quickly. You will need to translate high-level strategic ideas into immediate action plans, and execute on multiple workstreams simultaneously. You bring a solution-first mentality in working with internal and external senior leadership to deal with challenges.
Ambition, the ability to think strategically, and a desire to tackle major challenges. You thrive when asked to collaboratively solve complex or thorny problems under time pressure. You are excited to weigh in on high-level organizational decisions on topics that might not be familiar to you; and are willing and able to discuss, brainstorm, and ideate with our senior teammates and senior external stakeholders.
Demonstrated track record as an entrepreneurial self-starter and leader, including comfort with ambiguity and dynamic environments and workstreams.
Excellent soft skills and communication skills across all mediums (written communications, public speaking, teamwork, and upward management). You can translate complex and multifaceted information into digestible materials, and can effectively build rapport and communicate with senior leaders (internal and external).
High level of independence and attention to detail – if you say the work will be done, it will be done.

Professional Development
Skill and career development are core to IDinsight’s values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted as 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, structured enables maximum professional growth.
Nuts and Bolts
Location is flexible between Dakar, Senegal; Lusaka, Zambia; Nairobi, Kenya, or Rabat, Morocco. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience and track record. The preferred start date is as soon as possible. We expect a minimum two-year commitment, with regular professional development conversations, growth opportunities, and potential for a long-term career at IDinsight.

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October 28, 2024
East Africa Regional Director

About the role

The East Africa Regional Director (EARD) will be supported by the Head of Africa and IDinsight’s CEO, to assume critical responsibility for driving large pieces of IDinsight’s work and strategy in East Africa. The EARD will be backed by high quality research teams, an excellent operations team that ensures a well-functioning organization, and a communications team to help amplify the Director’s voice within policy circles.

The role holder will be provided significant autonomy to leverage IDinsight as a platform to drive social impact (in consonance with IDinsight’s mission and strategy), while also being held accountable to clear goals that they will set for themselves in consultation with the Head of Africa and other leaders at IDinsight.

This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and will likely include a good amount of domestic and international travel (up to 30%) to fulfill the responsibilities mentioned below.

Career Development

Career and skill development are a priority for all IDinsight employees. Their entrepreneurial culture allows for the role to be tailored to individual passions, goals and preferences. IDinsight is also committed to facilitating work-life flexibility to maximize professional satisfaction and sustainability.

The EARD will also be provided with bi-annual performance reviews (including feedback from peers and direct reports) to help them continuously grow and learn as professionals.

This role is a Partner track position.

Key Responsibilities:

Each Director role at IDinsight is unique and tailored to specific individuals’ strengths. However, at a high level, the EARD role will include the following:

Develop and lead high-impact opportunities: Building on their experience, expertise, and networks, the East Africa Regional Director will help conceptualize, secure, fundraise, and execute impactful initiatives that use data and evidence to drive change. All initiatives should be in line with IDinsight’s mission and strategy but can take various forms, ranging from direct client-service engagements to amplify their partners’ impact, to contributing to public knowledge products aimed at infusing data and evidence into important social sector debates.
Lead, mentor and guide project teams: Project leadership will involve; liaising with senior clients regularly, ensuring the highest standards of research quality and ethics, overseeing and mentoring teams (usually 3-5 Managers, with 10-15 members in total), ensuring a safe and enabling atmosphere for colleagues, and keeping within project budgets. Most importantly, the EARD is expected to set and drive their projects toward achieving social impact.
Be a thought leader, a trusted advisor, and an advocate for data-driven reforms: In addition to leading projects, the EARD will be expected to apply their considerable experience, expertise, and skills to shape evidence-informed action within one or multiple sectors, regions, or specializations. This includes; writing in leading newspapers and journals, speaking at important conferences, harnessing relationships and networks within the impact community to develop trusted advisory positions with senior leaders, and participating in consultative councils within governments, foundations, and/or non-profits.
Contribute to IDinsight strategy: The EARD will be responsible for working closely with Africa and global leadership teams to craft, refine and execute on achieving IDinsight’s strategy in East Africa.
Support organizational development: The EARD will also be involved in contributing to global and regional operations such as recruitment, onboarding and performance reviews. They will be expected to support IDinsight to remain an impact-first, values-based, and nimble organization even as they grow.
Exemplify IDinsight’s mission and values: The EARD is the face of IDinsight both externally and internally and will be expected to always and unambiguously exemplify IDinsight’s mission and values.

Does this sound like you?

10+ years’ experience using data and evidence to improve social impact, ideally in East Africa, with an advanced degree (Master’s or Doctoral) preferably in public policy, economics, public administration, business, or public health.
Deep passion for development and social impact, and strong alignment with IDinsight’s vision and mission.
Track record of building strong stakeholder and client relationships, especially with governments, foundations, and nonprofits in East Africa.
Proven background of impactful thought leadership and advocacy around important social and/or technical issues.
Fluency in the role of data and evidence tools – such as impact evaluations, representative surveys, monitoring systems, and/or machine learning – to create insights and impact.
Ability to be an inspiring leader in a dynamic, multicultural, and values-based environment;
Attitude to thrive in an entrepreneurial setting, and able to adapt to dynamic growth and change
Eagerness to be a lifelong learner with keen intellectual curiosity and a sense of humor
Willingness to travel as needed and to work with remote colleagues
Excitement to work across multiple development sectors.

Persons of all gender, race, sex, orientation, age, and identity are encouraged to apply.

Apply via :

www.idinsight.org

October 28, 2024
Junior Data Scientist

IDinsight is hiring full-time junior data scientists (0 to 4 years of relevant experience) to grow our machine learning and broader data science capabilities. In this role the data scientist will work with project teams and clients to use advanced analytics to drive social impact. You may build models that help locate out of school children, optimize routing of community health workers, identify infants with high mortality risk, or make credit scoring possible for the unbanked for the first time.
We are a social-impact oriented organization, so can guarantee incredibly meaningful work tackling some of the world’s most complex international development challenges around the world.
About the Role
We are seeking candidates with a strong background in Python and core data science skills and a passion for building solutions to difficult social problems. Most importantly, successful candidates should possess the ability to work independently to solve complex challenges related, both human and technological.
As a junior data scientist, the day-to-day work may include:

Working with clients to understand their needs: Understanding their current processes and pain points and identifying which of these can be framed as a tractable data science problem.
Wrangling/cleaning government or client data: from extracting data from SQL databases and making api calls to scraping websites and cleaning survey data.
Designing, testing, improving various algorithms: From OOTB scikit-learn algorithms to bespoke ones.
Synthesising, visualizing, and communicating results: Dashboards, plots, interactive viz, presentations and reports
Working with other team members to test and deploy these solutions.

Required Technical Qualifications
Junior Data Scientist:

Proficiency working in Python is required. Please do not apply if you are not proficient in standard data science packages in Python (numpy, pandas, scikit learn, etc.). The application will ask you specific questions on your Python abilities.

Proficiency in understanding and coding standard supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and components of the data science pipeline – data cleaning, feature selection, cross-validation, parameter tuning, etc.

Sound foundations in statistics and probability.

Working knowledge of SQL

B.S./B.S.E. degree in Applied Math, Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, or Similar Technical Field

Other required qualifications:

Proven ability to work alone and with teams in a dynamic, multicultural environment.
Passion for improving lives through evidence-informed policy.
Strong oral and written communication skills in English. Fluency in languages spoken in countries where IDinsight works is a plus.
Strong values aligned with IDinsight’s stated values.
Ability and interest in sharing knowledge, mentoring others, presenting work and reviewing the work of others.
Deeply passionate about global development and improving lives in disadvantaged populations
Open-minded self-starter who will thrive while tackling new, unusual and unpredictable challenges

Preferred Qualifications
The most competitive applicants will also have experience in one or more of the following:

Experience living and working in developing country settings.
Experience working on optimization and unsupervised learning problem.
Experience working with SQL, custom APIs and AWS products like RDS, EC2, and Lambda.
Experience working with GIS software such as QGIS.
Experience working with satellite imagery / remote sensing data.

Locations
This position is located in one of IDinsight’s existing offices, with possibility of extensive travel dependent on project needs. The most likely offices for this position are New Delhi, India; Dakar, Senegal; Nairobi, Kenya; or Lusaka, Zambia. Preference will be given to those with pre-existing work authorization in these countries; however, IDinsight will seek work permits where possible for exceptional candidates.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are currently “working from home” globally. As such, successful candidates would be expected to work from home until it is possible to safely and responsibly work from an IDinsight office.

Apply via :

alcareers-idinsight.icims.com

October 28, 2024
Africa Regional Recruiter

Job Description
The Regional Recruiter will manage the primary responsibilities of the talent acquisition process through a proactive identification of candidates that match IDinsight desired skills set for current or future recruitment drive. IDinsight is prioritizing growing our team of high-achieving teammates with robust professional experience and connections in local markets.
The Africa Regional Recruiter will work closely with the Africa and Global Operations Team and execute on the following:

Help develop a recruitment strategy for the Africa Operations Team to meet its recruitment targets
Support the Africa Operations Team with targeted outreach for recruitment of various positions at all levels in the different offices
Support the hiring teams across the organization in drafting job descriptions and creating applications on our Applicant Tracking System
Build and maintain a strong network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management
Manage relationships with recruiting firms to find the best talent for senior-level positions
Coordinate recruiting activities and events within the countries in which we work
Improve the current recruitment process in Africa to ensure streamlined, cost-effective, and high-quality services are provided to candidates
Provide other support to the Africa and Global Operations Team as needed

Qualifications

Passionate about global development and social impact
University degree preferably in Human Resources or equivalent degree
1-3 years of experience building and driving hiring initiatives, experience in Eastern, Southern, and/or West Africa (desirable)
Full life cycle recruiting experience of all levels in the development sector or other related industries
Demonstrated track record as a self-starter and leader, including comfort with ambiguity and dynamic environments and workstreams
Superior organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail; the ability to perform tasks accurately and efficiently
Outstanding interpersonal skills – a “people person” who can make connections immediately and is energized by meeting and engaging with new people
Outstanding presentation skills
Fluency in English, knowledge of/fluency in French desirable
Strong desire for professional growth and development with track record of openness to give and receive feedback
Ability to work with international, cross-cultural, and diverse teams
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed

The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya; Dakar, Senegal; Johannesburg, South Africa; or Lusaka, Zambia. Compensation is competitive with comparable social sector roles, and commensurate with experience and track record. Generous benefits package and flexibility, including health care coverage, annual round-trip travel reimbursement, a technology stipend, and a phone and data reimbursement. The application deadline is Sunday 22nd March 2020. The preferred start date for the position is May-July 2020.

October 26, 2024