๐ฅ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ: Research Associate – Early Childhood Education (ECE)
๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Banaskantha, Gujarat
๐ค๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐: Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields is required.
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๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ: 0-2 years, experience of working in education sector is preferred.
The ECE project is aimed at evaluating Prathamโs early childhood education programs through a randomized controlled trial. Though Pratham and J-PAL enjoy a long-term partnership, this will be the first instance of an evaluation of Prathamโs ECE program. This is an excellent opportunity to obtain a strong understanding of issues relating to ECE, a sector that is increasingly attracting a lot of attention from researchers, policy makers and implementer.
Research Associate Roles and Responsibilities
- The RA will work closely with academic researchers, Research Manager, and other field staff to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:
- Designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot exercises, refining study design, and surveying instruments.
- Managing field teams: Recruit, train, and supervise both field-based and data operations teams consisting of project assistants, field managers, field-based surveyors, data entry operators, and other field and office staff.
- Overseeing implementation of the evaluation according to the research design, in association with our partner organization.
- Maintaining relationships with partner organizations at both headquarters and field levels.
- Supervising data collection and data entry, and ensuring data quality and productivity.
- Assisting with data cleaning, preliminary data analysis, and preparation of documents and presentations for dissemination.
- Data cleaning and management
- Develop scripts in Stata to analyze survey data, clean data and identify trends across time for all ongoing data collection efforts
- Review and vet project datasets and maintain an efficient data documentation system
- Work with other members of the team to reconcile any gaps or errors in the data
- Data analysis and synthesis
- Liaise with members of the project team by sending them statistics as and when required
- Generate aggregated views of the data for various stakeholders โ the Principal Investigators, donors and other partners
- Assist in documenting data collection efforts, including any issues and key decisions taken for improvements
- Reporting to PIs, Research Managers and partners on some/all of the above-mentioned activities.
- Maintaining compliance with all J-PAL protocols and policies.
Desired Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields is required.
- Experience-0-2 years, experience working in education sector is preferred.
- Experience in working in rural areas
- Excellent management/ organizational skills and ability to solve unexpected problems is required.
- Strong quantitative skills is required.Working knowledge of Stata (strongly preferred), MATLAB/R is required.
- Familiarity with RCTs is required.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a team is preferable
- Flexibility, self-motivation, independence and efficient multitasking is required.
- Ability to deal with unstructured and changing environments is required
- Attention to detail is required.
Note on Work Authorizations
Candidates must have work authorization to work in India.
How to Apply
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