Policy Impact Senior Manager

About the Development Economics Center (DEC)

The Development Economics Center brings together scholars from across the UChicago community for a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to addressing these challenges. Through rigorous research and active engagement with policymakers and stakeholders, UChicago scholars can push the frontiers of research and have real world impact.

Job Summary

The DEC seeks a full-time Policy Impact Senior Manager. The Senior Manager will help design and implement the Policy Impact plan to take policy evidence to action and reduce people’s suffering in the world. She or he will also work closely with the Director to identify studies with the potential to be disseminated in different countries around the globe and with governments, NGOs, and firms to identify pathways to scale.

The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in rigorous development economics research. Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior academics, government officials, bilateral and multilateral funders, non-profit organizations, and/or businesses, will be particularly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Support the amplification of the impact of Weiss-funded projects by identifying promising projects and their pathways to scale. This will include contributing towards identifying partners for larger-scale research, implementation, policy change, and funding.
• Support the Director in the fundraising for scale-up efforts of the DEC team.
• Collaborate in organizing conferences for research supported by the DEC.
• Take advantage of synergies in dissemination and policy outreach.
• Lead the writing of policy briefs that help disseminate policy evidence to partners (specially governments).

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree required in economics, public policy, or international development, including significant training in economics preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years working in an economic research or policy implementation environment.
• Experience working directly with academic researchers, developing country governments, and bilateral/multilateral funders.
• Experience scaling up evidence-based development innovations preferred.
• Experience conducting randomized control trials is preferred.
• Advanced training in econometrics is preferred.

Preferred competencies

• Ability to interact with high-level stakeholders in research, including academics and university leaders.
• Ability to interact with high-level stakeholders in public policy, including developing country governments, NGOs, foundations, multilateral aid agencies.
• Ability to appraise the quality of research development economics and give helpful feedback on research design and implementation (including budgets for field experiments).
• Ability to understand development economics research and communicate academic research effectively to various audiences.
• Ability to work with researchers to maximize real-world impact of research.
• Creative problem solving and an ability to think outside-the-box.
• Excellent writing skills. Ability to communicate technical information for stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds.
• Experience managing people.
• Ability to work independently with a high degree of initiative and the ability to work well in a diverse team.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)
• Three Professional References (required)

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