Innovations for Poverty Action was born in 2002 when Dean Karlan founded Development Innovations, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between academia and development policy in practice. \u00a0Dean\u2019s graduate school advisors, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan agreed to join him on the board of the new organization, along with Ray Fisman, a professor from Columbia. In 2003, Banerjee, Duflo and Mullainathan started MIT\u2019s Poverty Action Lab (now the Abdul Lateef Jameel Poverty Action Lab, or J-PAL), a center at MIT and network of like-minded researchers from around the world. From the beginning the two organizations were set to work closely, and continue to promote a shared vision to this day. \u00a0Development Innovations officially changed to Innovations for Poverty Action around the same time in order to show the closely-linked vision of the two organizations.<\/p>\n
Each year since then IPA has managed to at least double in size to approximately $25 million in income in 2010. We now have projects in over 40 countries and approximately 500 staff.<\/p>\n
While in some countries we do run anti-poverty programs directly, the vast majority of our work around the world is collaborative. We partner with other implementing organizations\u2014mostly local and international nonprofits, but also governments and private firms\u2014and design and run program evaluations to find out what works and what doesn\u2019t, and then we let the world know.<\/p>\n
Today over 100 researchers \u2014 many professors at some of the leading institutions of higher education in the world \u2014 turn to us to implement and manage their projects. For our researchers and our donors, the greatest satisfaction comes from knowing that the value of our work will continue to increase many times over through more effective anti-poverty programs.<\/p>\n
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN GHANA: Innovations for Poverty Action<\/strong><\/p>\n IPA Ghana is recruiting a Southern Regional Manager at either the Deputy Country Director or Project Coordinator level. The successful candidate will assist in providing overall management support across projects in southern Ghana. The position will include a variety of activities and responsibilities, ranging from technical support on existing research projects to organizational, management and human resource support.\u00a0 He or she will play a senior role in IPA\u2019s Ghana Country Office and report directly to the Country Director (CD).\u00a0 The Southern Regional Manager will interact with key players in various development organizations, and will also support outreach activities and the dissemination of results in Ghana.\u00a0 The role provides a unique opportunity to gain management experience, with responsibility for developing overarching organizational structures and systems, while also being involved in cutting-edge research projects.<\/p>\n Research projects in Ghana cover a number of sectors including micro-savings, education, public health, agriculture, financial literacy. The South Regional Manager will be based in Accra, Ghana and will work at a variety of field to support ongoing projects based out of Accra and the Eastern Region. He or She will be responsible for the following tasks:<\/p>\n General Management (45%):<\/p>\n Project Backstopping (45%)<\/p>\n New Project\/Partner Outreach (5%)<\/p>\n Outreach\/Dissemination (5%)<\/p>\n Qualifications and Experience<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The commitment sought for this position is a minimum of two years. The position will start on June 1, 2011.<\/p>\n If you are interested, please do two things:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Complete the\u00a0J-PAL\/IPA\u00a0common application<\/a>(\u00a0http:\/\/apply.povertyactionlab.org\/apply\/login<\/a>) indicating that you are interested in applying for a “Type 1” position.<\/p>\n\n
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