Behavioral Insights Coordinator Job at IRC

• Provide project management support across core projects, including project managing qualitative and quantitative research and prototyping.
• Coordination between teams in HQ, country programs, technical experts, and behavioral scientists and providing day-to-day support operationalization behaviorally informed research activities.
• Provide strategic guidance and technical support on high-profile, multi-country projects, such as the PlayMatters project and others.
• Work collaboratively with the Behavioral Insights Lead, Behavioral Insights Advisor, the Airbel Impact Lab, IRC Technical Units, the PlayMatters Regional East Africa team, and distributed global IRC teams to gather relevant inputs, synthesize, and help develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis.
• Support questionnaire development and qualitative analysis; design behavioral intervention prototypes, and into small-scale RCTs to inform programming and decision-making.
• Lead the knowledge management of behavioral insights projects and resources. Openly share lessons and learnings from the field with the broader humanitarian, behavioral science, and social innovation communities; present and publish behavioral science research findings in academic journals and practitioner-focused outlets.
• Work collaboratively with the PlayMatters team, Airbel Impact Lab, technical and country program teams to gather relevant inputs, synthesize, and develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis.
• Identify the potential to apply behavioral science insights across IRC projects and enable teams to leverage behavioral insights in program design.
• Support the IRC behavioral insights team and Airbel Impact Lab to identify behaviorally-informed research questions and areas of interest within the IRC’s organizational research and innovation priorities.

Qualifications;

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a discipline associated with behavioral science (economics, psychology, anthropology, ethnography, neuroscience, social sciences, public policy, etc) or relevant work experience is required
• Minimum 3 years experience in managing or coordinating research or innovation projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in the implementation of, and/or analyzing behavioral science qualitative research.
• Demonstrated experience in project management, relationship management, and working with behavioral science projects.

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