IPA KLPS Project Research Associate Jobs in Busia, Kenya

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an international non-profit research organization dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems.

IPA works in partnership with development partners and academic researchers to create and evaluate approaches potential solutions to poverty problems using randomized evaluations in the fields of health, education, microfinance, governance and agriculture.

We also mobilize and support these decision makers to use these solutions to build better programs and policies at scale.

About the project:

The Kenya Life Panel Survey is a longitudinal study that seeks to rigorously examine the medium-to-long term impacts of several programs that invested in rural Kenyan youth then (now young adults).

These programs include the Primary School Deworming Project (PSDP), which provided deworming treatment to primary school students in rural Kenya between 1998 and 2002, the Girls’ Scholarship Program (GSP), which provided merit based scholarships to young women in a separate set of primary schools in rural Kenya in 2001 and 2002, and the Vocational Training Voucher Program (VTVP), which provided vouchers to a subset of PSDP and GSP participants allowing them to obtain vocational training between 2009 and 2010 and lastly Start-up Capital for Youth (SCY) program which subsequently randomly allocated unconditional cash grants to support the start-up or expansion of small businesses, among the same sample of individuals who were part of the TVVP.

The KLPS panel data collection effort seeks to follow recipients of these programs into adulthood and collect information on a range of life outcomes, with focus on expenditure, income, health, education, labor market participation, migration, fertility and marriage among others.

We have already launched the second wave of the expenditure module of our fourth round and just recently launched the first wave of our behavioural module (focused on non-expenditure outcomes) which is also acting as our adult component of an ongoing major KLPS-Kids activity.

About the Position:

The Research Associate, under the general supervision of the Senior Research Associate, in coordination with the Research Manager and within the limits of Innovations for Poverty Action-Kenya policies and procedures, coordinates the facilitation of field and data activities and functions within IPAK.

This position will be based in Busia and oversee the day-to-day running of both KLPS Nairobi and Busia offices in close consultation with the Senior Research Associate and the Research Manager.

Below is a list of some of the general duties and responsibilities of the Research Associate, to be carried out as needed according to the determination of the Senior Research Associate and the Research Manager.

Duties and Responsibilities

Data Management