Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab seek a full time Project Coordinator to:

• manage an Incubator of Experimental Evaluations and
• develop an IPA/J-PAL Policy and Training program in Mexico’s field office.

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for implementing all aspects of the Incubator, developing the Policy and Training Program, and searching for further funding to continue this program.

Location: Mexico City

Duration: 12 months with possibility of finding further funding

Qualified candidates: Please submit an application through J-PAL’s common application, indicating that you are interested in applying for a «Type 3» position. In addition, send a CV in Spanish, a resume in English, a cover letter in English and a Policy Memo in Spanish to info-mexico@poverty-action.org.

The Policy Memo should be a two-page document that summarizes and analyzes the findings of any impact evaluation of a poverty related program.

Philanthropists, investors, and policymakers must always be aware of the opportunity cost of funds for development and seek to finance and support the most cost-effective initiatives amongst competing ideas to achieve a given social goal. Whether a particular program achieves its objectives in a verifiable and measurable way is a question that has an answer, one that must be pursued through impact evaluation. IPA and J-PAL are interested in building capacity in government, civil society and NGOs to be able to conduct evaluations in the medium run and hold accountable public social spending on programs by requesting they be evaluated.

The Policy and Training Program will provide training and technical assistance on impact evaluations to different institutions. The project coordinator will be responsible for building a network of researchers and building bridges between researchers/evaluators and policy makers. Likewise, he or she will write and circulate policy memos that inform decision-makers about the findings of other evaluations.

Through permanent training and policy dissemination to institutions, the purpose of the Incubator is to analyze a series of social programs and design concrete evaluation proposals on feasible and relevant programs. The Project Coordinator will be responsible of presenting a portfolio of potential experimental evaluations.