- Ensure the high quality and rigor of technical services provided under this agreement, including but not limited to technical aspects of recruitment/staffing, evaluation designs, instrument development, data collection, data security and privacy, data analysis, writing, dissemination, and evidence use.
- Manage and implement all core-funded activities and buy-ins in accordance with USAID regulations, policies and procedures related to data, research, evaluation, learning and the SOW specifications.
- Master's degree in areas such as economics, political science, or other related fields (PhD preferred).
- Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant work experience conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and/or cost-effectiveness analysis for international development projects.
- Deep expertise and proven experience with impact evaluation methodology and implementation, particularly RCTs, and cost-effectiveness analysis across a range of different sectors.
- Ability to provide technical direction and management to multiple core-funded activities and buy-ins from Missions/Bureaus/Operating Units across USAID simultaneously. This will require the ability to work seamlessly across multiple research teams, academic researchers, and different USAID Activity Managers simultaneously, providing methodological and operational oversight.
- Proven ability to deliver quality work/work products on large-scale projects in a timely manner.
- A level of methodological expertise that allows for easy interaction with academic researchers.
- Experience with evidence synthesis and dissemination, and the ability to translate highly technical research for a practitioner audience.
- Experience working with universities, researchers, research organizations, or networks of researchers.
- Familiarity with USAID's requirements on research and research products.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to foster collaborative working relationships with academic partners (both institutions and academic researchers in U.S. and LMICs), the US Government, and other actors in the research community.
- Excellent English oral and written communication skills
- Previous Technical Director experience or similar (e.g., Team Leader, Research Director, etc.) on a USAID-funded award and/or prior internal experience at USAID.
- Qualified applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. We regret that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position .
- Generously subsidized health insurance, effective on the first day of employment.
- Dental and vision insurance.
- A defined contribution retirement program, along with a separate voluntary 403(b) retirement program.
- Group life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance.
- Benefits that promote work/life balance, including generous paid time off, holidays; paid parental leave, bereavement leave, tuition assistance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
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Technical Director - Bethesda, MD, United States - U of C NORC
Description
JOB SUMMARY:NORC is seeking a Technical Director for an anticipated five-year USAID cooperative agreement, Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness (ECE). The cooperative agreement aims to fund impact evaluations and cost analyses and integrate existing evidence from these high-quality studies into USAID activity designs. This activity will provide a platform for engaging academics from the social and behavioral sciences to strengthen USAID's current and future programming by understanding the causal impact per dollar of its programs and producing contributions to the global evidence base that can improve policy and programming of other development partners.
The Technical Director position is preferably based in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area, with the possibility of hybrid or remote working arrangements. This role is contingent on USAID contract award to NORC.
DEPARTMENT: International Programswas established in 2005, and works on performance and impact evaluations, capacity building, complex surveys, and qualitative data collection, among other research activities, throughout the developing world. Our research covers a range of sectors including education, child and youth well-being, gender equality and women's empowerment, private-sector engagement, democracy and governance, resilience and food security, land and resource governance, biodiversity conservation, natural climate solutions, agriculture, water and sanitation, and vulnerable populations. Since its establishment has implemented projects in more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia, MENA, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. RESPONSIBILITIES:
The pay range for this position is $120,000-$160,000.
This position is classified as regular. Regular staff are eligible for NORC's comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include, but are not limited to:
NORC's Approach to Equity and Transparency
Pay and benefits transparency helps to reduce wage gaps. As part of our commitment to pay equity and salary transparency, NORC includes a salary range for each job opening along with information about eligible benefit offerings. At NORC, we take a comprehensive approach to setting salary ranges and reviewing raises and promotions, which is overseen by a formal Salary Review Committee (SRC).
WHAT WE DO:NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, our teams have conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with us to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge.
WHO WE ARE:For over 80 years, NORC has evolved in many ways, moving the needle with research methods, technical applications and groundbreaking research findings. But our tradition of excellence, passion for innovation, and commitment to collegiality have remained constant components of who we are as a brand, and who each of us is as a member of the NORC team. With world-class benefits, a business casual environment, and an emphasis on continuous learning, NORC is a place where people join for the stellar research and analysis work for which we're known, and stay for the relationships they form with their colleagues who take pride in the impact their work is making on a global scale.
EEO STATEMENT:NORC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values and actively seeks diversity in the workforce. NORC evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other legally protected characteristics.
