Precision Development (PxD)

Manager

• Work with relevant stakeholders and experts to identify learning objectives and resources available for multiple projects and manage the implementation of research activities.
• Collaborate with team leadership across research and service delivery to scope, design, pilot, and scale evidence-backed digital agriculture services.
• Interpret and contextualize external and internal evidence and insights for PxD programs.
• Oversee data management and analysis for the project and survey creation, A/B testing and implementation.
• Develop and ensure compliance with IRB protocols for human subject research and relevant in-country research permission requirements.

Senior Research Manager

General

• Support the management team in executing program tasks in alignment with the workplan
• Interface between our tech, research, and program teams to design and iterate on products, including spending time with frontline staff and farmers in the field to ensure that our products are closely aligned to user needs
• Assist in managing partner relations (particularly government-facing)
• Draft program documentation, maintain summaries of meetings, support preparation of reports, presentations, and written communication materials
• Contribute to general management tasks important for the organization's functioning and success, including but not limited to budgeting, performance management, and hiring
• Support the team in organizing events; writing blogs and policy briefs, as needed

Program Associate / Senior Program Associate, Weather

• Serve as the primary coordination point between PMU leads and PxD senior leadership, ensuring learnings, risks, and strategic decisions flow effectively across the organization
• Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to streamline PMU activities across geographies, and share learnings across geographies
• Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to ensure existing PMU deliverables are on track, report progress to government partners and funders, and revise deliverables and targets if necessary
• Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to provide technical support on the development of written materials and presentations
• Work with PxD senior leadership (CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Economist) to develop an overall strategy for PxD’s government advisory work
• Own the end-to-end pipeline for new government advisory programs — from opportunity identification and relationship development through to proposal submission, staffing, and program launch
• Build and manage relationships with: Government partners to generate demand for government advisory programs, including digital agriculture roadmaps (DAR) and PMUs, Multilateral development finance institutions (World Bank, AfDB, ADB, IFAD) to incorporate digital agriculture into large-scale funding initiatives, Existing PxD ecosystem partners to identify opportunities to advise governments and funders on the expansion of public digital agriculture programs
• Represent PxD externally at events, and develop written materials and presentations that build the evidence base and business case for PxD's government advisory model
• Develop the internal systems, playbooks, and processes required to establish government advisory as a scalable, replicable service offering within PxD — including onboarding frameworks for new PMUs, knowledge management across geographies, and quality standards for advisory outputs
• Work with PxD senior leadership (CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Economist) and other staff allocated to M&E work, to develop a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework to assess the impact that PxD is having through its government advisory programs, including both direct impact on service delivery to farmers, and indirect impact through policy support and coordination

Senior Research Manager

Program Associate / Senior Program Associate, Weather

Senior Manager, Government Advisory