Province: Delhi-NCR
Description:
TECHNICAL MANAGER / SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER
Locations: Preferred: India (Delhi, Hyderabad, Patna). Lusaka, Zambia may be
possible.
We
seek a technical expert who possesses exceptional quantitative analytical
skills, has impressive experience in
field research, evaluation
design, and applied econometrics, thrives in a developing country setting, and
is pas-
sionate about making a difference, to join IDinsight’s
Technical Team. Our Technical Team provides three cru-
cial functions to IDinsight: 1) strengthens the analytical rigor of the
design,
execution, and deliverables of our
evaluations, 2) trains all IDinsight staff to increase their technical skills,
3) expands the scope
of IDinsight’s
evaluation-related services by researching and piloting innovative methods and
technologies.
About IDinsight
IDinsight
is an international development consulting organization that helps
policymakers and managers make
socially impactful decisions using
rigorous evidence. We carefully tailor a wide range of analytical and
quantitative
tools to enable our clients to design better policies,
rigorously test those ideas, and take informed action at scale
to improve lives. Our services include experimental evaluation methodologies
– including, but not limited to,
randomized controlled trials – tailored to the priorities of international
development decision-makers;
monitoring
and performance management systems to facilitate continuous data-driven
improvement; policy design consult-
ing and scale-up
support. Our advisory teams are closely integrated into client organizations,
and we strive to
provide comprehensive support for clients
who want to maximize their social impact through evidence-based
policymaking. IDinsight’s vision is to improve millions of lives
by transforming how the social sector
innovates, learns and improves.
Founded by graduates of Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy
School, IDinsight works across Asia
and Africa and is rapidly expanding. Our clients include state governments in
India, national Ministries
across
Africa, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, international
NGOs and innovative social busi-
nesses. We work
across a range of sectors, including governance, health, education, energy,
agriculture, and san-
itation.
Example Engagements
IDinsight
provides a range of data-driven policy advisory services. Example engagements
include:
ï‚· Evaluating innovations to improve
water, sanitation and hygiene: A large multilateral institution
has asked IDinsight to help them increase their impact on water and
sanitation outcomes. IDinsight is
running experimental impact evaluations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East
Asia to directly inform
their
programmatic strategies.
ï‚· Embedded team advising the government on expanding access to energy in
India’s poorest
state:
The energy department of one of India’s largest, poorest, and most energy-
deprived states seeks
to improve electricity distribution.
To support their reform efforts, IDinsight created and staffed an in-
house learning cell that works closely with the Managing Director
of the Energy Ministry to refine mon-
itoring systems, design and evaluate innovations, and provide ongoing
analytical support to answer
crit-
ical policy questions, such as how to increase unsustainably low revenue
collection.
ï‚· Catalyzing uptake of improved
root crop varieties: One of the world’s largest foundations is funding
a large gov
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