IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact. We tailor a wide range of data and evidence tools, including randomized evaluations and machine learning, to help decision-makers design effective programs and rigorously test what works to support communities. We work with governments, multilateral agencies, foundations, and innovative non-profit organizations in Asia and Africa. Our work spans a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, education, health, governance, sanitation, financial inclusion, and other areas.
We have expertise in a variety of rigorous approaches and methodologies, which we tailor to each client depending on their needs and constraints. To achieve a positive social impact we:


• Support clients’ use of data and evidence for routine and major decision-making.
• Inform funding decisions – toward high-impact initiatives and away from less effective programs or approaches.
• Create and share tools, knowledge, and ideas that expand the use of data and evidence for social good.

Our diverse, growing team of roughly 230 outstanding colleagues operate in nearly two dozen countries around the world.


Responsibilities
As a Manager, the day-to-day responsibilities may include:
• Technical skills: Support all technical elements of the team’s work, possibly including methodology development, questionnaire design, indicator selection, data collection (internal and with partners), data analysis, and data visualization. Technical work is likely to focus on non-experimental methods. We’re especially interested in someone who has skills or interest in learning Bayesian techniques.
• Project and client management: Manage project flow between our team and internal and external clients, likely the CLTO, CIO, regional teams, client-facing teams, external clients, funders, and functional teams like operations and finance.
• Communication: Produce high-quality communication materials describing our approach and results, including technical reports, policy briefs, and presentation materials. For example, our methodology document, insights page, or reports.
• Mentoring junior staff: Professionally develop one or more high-performing early career professionals to help them grow in their role and achieve their long-term career goals.
• Strategy development and execution: Help continuously refine ILT’s objectives and approach to ensure maximum impact. You will also have the opportunity to identify, pilot, and implement special projects that enhance our organizational learning.
• Change management: Execute organisational change management plans, including designing training materials, setting up champion networks, and facilitating peer learning.
• Innovation: Continuously innovate on how we can improve our value, including identifying new problems, developing new methods, improving our approach, and piloting new outputs.
• Research hygiene and data infrastructure: Build and maintain robust data systems, documentation, and reproducible workflows to keep IDinsight’s impact and operations data accurate, accessible, and analyzable. Strengthen data architecture, version control, and transparency to make data easier for staff and teams to use.
• (Possible) Client development: Lead the drafting of technical proposals, concept notes, and pitch decks. Translate complex internal learning concepts into clear, compelling value propositions for non-technical donors and social sector leaders.


Qualifications
• Strong project management skills, self-disciplined and motivated to produce a consistent high-volume of high quality outputs, with an ability to easily switch between high-level considerations and nuts and bolts of implementation
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving abilities, with an ability to think through complex questions conscientiously and judiciously
• Strong quantitative and critical thinking skills, including an understanding of econometric and statistical tools. Knowledge of statistical tools (R/Stata).
• Track record of leveraging Generative AI to accelerate your work, for example designing and deploying no-code agents to tackle repeat tasks. Strong grasp of LLM capabilities and limitations.
• Motivated by evidence-informed systems improvement and organizational change management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to develop a deep and nuanced understanding of how data and associated tools can be tailored to decision-making needs within IDinsight.
• Open-minded self-starter who will thrive while tackling new, unusual and unpredictable challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively and inclusively engage with a variety of internal clients.