No Experience Market Linkages Project (Student Volunteer) Careers – Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

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Organization: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About IPA:
Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) discovers and promotes effective solutions to global
poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these
solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that
the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor. Since
our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to conduct
over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of
successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.
About IPA Project:
In
the face of growing food demand from a burgeoning population, East African
grain markets are plagued by poor integration. Given the inability of markets
to efficiently move food from surplus to deficit regions, this poor integration
has a major effect on both farmer incomes and on food security. The most likely
culprits are imperfect information and contractual uncertainty, which lead to
high search costs and large information rents for intermediaries. Improving
farmer welfare and stimulating greater market integration, appears to require
strategies that fundamentally shift the nature of intermediary relationships
and the degree of contractual uncertainty.
The
study brings together three institutions to implement an intervention that aims
to 1) improve the information available to farmers and brokers across the
country; 2) engage a novel technology to offer a completely new vehicle through
which long-distance agricultural transactions might be conducted; and 3)
provide the reputational and financial guarantees that may enable this new
system to thrive.
Job Summary: The Market Linkages Project (Student Volunteer)
will offer support midline data collection of the project Market Linkages in
Uganda. The Market Linkages intern will work with the (Senior) Research Associates
and other field staff on a multi-pronged research project which aims to address
these research questions and build sustainable, private-sector solutions to
some of the intermediation issues that have plagued African food markets. The
student volunteer will work on a variety of tasks including, but not limited
to: data management, cleaning of data sets, creating audit surveys, tracking
surveys in the field and organizing midline data sets.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor’s
    degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields
    Possession of a Master’s degree preferred
  • The position offers an excellent opportunity
    for first hand project management and data management experience on a
    project at the intersection of agriculture markets and ICT, with an
    organization undertaking cutting-edge development research.
  • Excellent Stata skills; Experience, comfort
    and fluency mandatory
  • Previous data management experience
  • Project management experience
  • Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage
    multiple tasks efficiently and a team player;
  • Fluency and excellent communication skills in
    English; and
  • Familiarity with randomized controlled trials
    preferred.
  • Data Collection Data Management Development Research
    East Africa Food Security Internship Project Management Public Policy
    Social Sciences Volunteer
  • Experience living in a developing country is
    a plus.
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an updated CV and a cover
letter to sannijas@poverty-action.org, razafimbelo@poverty-action.org, and jobs-uganda+internship@poverty-action.org
In the email body: Put your
full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name.
Attachments: Please
attach your resume and cover letter.
In the subject line: Copy
exactly the following position line: IPA Student Volunteer: Market Linkages
Project
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