Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to creating, evaluating, and replicating innovative solutions to poverty and policy problems worldwide. IPA specializes in using randomized impact evaluation to assess the effectiveness of development programs.

Project Manager (PM), Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS)

Summary
IPA Ghana seeks four Project Managers who will coordinate the evaluation of interventions under the Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) study including: marketing agricultural input technology packages and providing community-based mobile extension services and rainfall indexed insurance.

Lead Principal Investigators on the DIRTS study are Dean Karlan and Christopher Udry of Yale University. The study’s interventions are implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Ghana Insurers Association and several other partners. Evaluation of the project occurs via a series of electronic and paper surveys with randomly selected respondent households. This position will be based in Tamale, with required travel across the Northern Region.

Job Summary

The Project Managers, working closely with the implementation team, Project Coordinator, and Evaluation Coordinator, will help manage and execute one or more of the following:

•   Annual survey of ~4000 respondent households on Blaise software
•   Weekly labor surveys on Open Data Kit throughout the agricultural season
•   Paper harvest survey for insurance policyholders
•   Provision of the community-based mobile extension services to ~1600 farmers
•   Marketing of rainfall index insurance

The positions will involve recruitment, training, and supervision of community-based enumerators/extension agents; recruitment and training of community-based rainfall insurance marketers; recruitment, training, and supervision of IPA field staff; development of field protocols for all data collection activities; managing finances and tracking field expenditures; piloting and developing instruments with the Project Coordinators, Evaluation Coordinator and Implementation Manager.

Qualification Required & Experience

It is required that candidates have:

•   Fluency in Dagbani and English
•   Education in economics, development, statistics, or related field, Bachelor degree is preferred
•   Excellent management, communication and organizational skills
•   Project management experience, as well as experience supervising, designing, and implementing data collection and/or field work activities, and managing teams of field workers is preferred.
•   Experience in collection of survey data is a plus
•   Experience working in Northern Ghana is a plus

Location: Tamale

How To Apply For The Job

To apply, follow this link and complete all required information

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1432138/IPA-Project-Manager

Closing Date: 15 November, 2013

Note that a Cover Letter and CV will be required to complete the form.  Incomplete applications, or applications not completed through the web-form will not be considered.

The commitment period required for this position is a minimum of 1 year.

Timeline
The deadline for applications to this position is November 15, 2013, however applications will be screened on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

Due to the high volume of applications received by IPA, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted by email or phone.