Precision Development (PxD)

Manager

• Identify impact improvement opportunities and provide strategic design input on new research ideas and projects that support PxD’s programs and partners.
• Identify learning objectives and resources available for multiple projects and manage the implementation of research activities, ensuring that projects adhere to appropriate rigor, policies, timelines, and budgets.
• Work with the team leadership and colleagues to scope, design, pilot, and scale evidence-backed digital agriculture services.
• Interpret and contextualize external and internal evidence and insights for PxD programs.
• Guide teams on the use of evidence-based approaches and ensure that PxD maintains the standards for technical appropriateness and rigor.
• Oversee data management and analysis for research projects and survey creation, A/B testing, and implementation.
• Oversee documentation of research activities, research results, and rationale for decisions made.
• Develop and fill in frameworks with specific information to identify program insights.
• Manage partner relations and work with external stakeholders to implement program operations.
• Develop and ensure compliance with IRB protocols and relevant in-country research permission requirements.
• Contribute to funding proposals and project reports.
• Contribute to the strategic planning and global functioning of the organization.
• Provide close mentorship and guidance to Associate and Manager level staff.
• Contribute and support internal and external communications to disseminate project results and research findings, including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations.
• Contribute to PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts.

Senior Research Manager

Research Analyst

• Support the implementation of research activities for one or more workstreams with moderate oversight
• Carry out day-to-day basic data management, including cleaning and merging datasets to prepare them for analysis
• Produce accurate and organized summaries of data including basic analysis for descriptive statistics and simple regression analysis
• Support primary data collection, including enumerator training and running high frequency data checks
• Maintain project documentation, including experiment registry entries
• Carry out literature reviews and other desk research when research questions and basic structure are provided
• Fill in frameworks provided with specific information to identify program insights
• Draft survey and focus group discussion instruments when structure and concepts are provided
• Support PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts
• Contribute to internal and external communications to disseminate research findings including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations
• Support IRB protocol development
• Contribute to funding proposals and project reports
• Assist with partner relations and working with external stakeholders for implementation of field operations

Research Associate

Research Scientist

• Develop and implement research and innovation ideas that support PxD’s programs.
• Serve as a co-investigator or Principal Investigator (PI) on research projects to establish design, guide approach, and substantially contribute to fundraising for research and innovation.
• Apply foundational knowledge of the development economics and behavioral science literature to PxD's work to situate research questions, conceptualize problems, interpret the findings, and identify opportunities to generate impacts for the poor.
• Develop feasible research designs and plans, including identifying risks/threats to the quality of research and ways to mitigate them; assess tradeoffs between rigor/quality, costs, and operational constraints in research designs.
• Provide technical feedback, advice, and recommendations on PxD’s programs and external communication materials; guide Research Managers/Associates to ensure PxD maintains the standards for the appropriate use of evidence.
• Use foundational econometrics skills to conduct complex empirical data analysis and design impact evaluations.
• Lead academic research grant proposals, impact evaluation proposals, and pre-analysis plans; contribute to innovations and program funding proposals
• Co-author journal articles, working papers, and policy briefs.
• Ensure that research projects maintain the standards for technical appropriateness, adherence to rigorous research methodology, and data quality standards.
• Responsible for IRB protocol adherence for specific projects for which they serve as PI.
• Present research internally and externally and represent PxD at relevant outreach events.
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and technical oversight to research staff and country teams to design and carry out research projects (no direct supervision)

Senior Research Manager

Research Associate

Researcher/Senior Researcher