{"id":6679,"date":"2012-01-16T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T10:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:09:50","slug":"innovations-for-poverty-action-careers-2012-3-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/innovations-for-poverty-action-careers-2012-3-vacancies.html","title":{"rendered":"Innovations For Poverty Action Careers 2012 (3 Vacancies)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.\u00a0 IPA specializes in using randomized impact evaluation to assess the effectiveness of development programs.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0Project Managers, Various Projects<\/p>\n
ob Description<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n IPA is seeking three Project Managers for immediate hire.\u00a0 The Project Managers will assist with implementing and evaluating food security and agricultural programs.\u00a0 The positions will be based in Tamale, with frequent travel across the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions, and Brong Ahafo with frequent travel across the Brong Ahafo and Greater Accra regions.<\/p>\n Job Description: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n The Project Managers must be able to independently manage a survey team in the field and contribute to the design and planning of the research projects. IPA is seeking candidates who meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Project Coordinator (Africa)<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Job Description Project Coordinators work closely with academic researchers and other field staff to perform a variety tasks including, but not limited to: overseeing several research associates and their projects, designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot exercise, refining study design and surveying instruments, managing survey teams, negotiating contracts with survey firms, checking and analyzing data, cleaning data and assisting in preliminary analysis, assisting in the writing of project reports and policy memos, coordinating with local partners running the programs being evaluated, and supporting outreach to policymakers in country. Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. Project Associate<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Background<\/p>\n Job Description Project Associates work closely with academic researchers and other field staff to perform a variety tasks including, but not limited to:\u00a0 designing survey questionnaires, conducting qualitative research, running pilot exercise, refining study design and surveying instruments, managing survey teams, negotiating contracts with survey firms, checking and analyzing data, cleaning data and assisting in preliminary analysis, assisting in the writing of project reports and policy memos and coordinating with local partners running the programs being evaluated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are interested, please do two things:<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by (job title). The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant. Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA prior to releasing any extensive personal information to the organization. Please direct questions to\u00a0jobs-info@poverty-action.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n IPA is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), adhering to the laws that prohibit discrimination in the terms and conditions of employment. The IPA EOE policy provides equal employment, volunteer, and service opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, marital status, veteran status, disability (including HIV\/AIDS), or any other status protected by applicable law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 IPA specializes in using randomized impact…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[203],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-1JJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/strong>Innovations for Poverty Action seeks qualified applicants for the position of Project Coordinator for multiple projects in Ghana. The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand field management experience in an organization undertaking cutting-edge development research.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Innovations for Poverty Action seeks a qualified applicant for the position of Project Associate for multiple projects in Ghana. The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand field management experience in an organization undertaking cutting-edge development research.<\/p>\n\n
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