JOB: IE Program Coordinator in Madagascar – Innovative RCT with behavioral nudges linked to a cash transfer program (French speaker)
Who We Are
ideas42 is a unique social enterprise bringing together highly creative practitioners, industry leaders, and policy experts with world-renowned economists and psychologists from top-tier universities. Our mission is to apply our expertise in behavioral science to invent fresh solutions to the world’s toughest social problems with the goal of improving tens of millions of lives. We believe we will be successful in achieving real social impact only if we pair real-world, high-energy entrepreneurial and execution skills with the insights and rigor that academia brings.
What We Do
ideas42 is a rapidly growing organization with a team of 50 people working on more than 40 projects in the U.S. and abroad. We apply our expertise to a range of domains, including consumer finance, poverty alleviation and economic opportunity, health, education, and environmental conservation. Our work begins with re-conceptualizing problems, designing new solutions and testing them in the field, then finally scaling them up to reach millions of people. We partner with large companies to create products that will do social good. We collaborate with other cutting-edge non-profits to incubate game-changing ideas. We work with governments to re imagine policy and revamp programs to make them more effective.
The Role
The Government of Madagascar and the World Bank have established social safety net projects in Madagascar aimed at improving the lives of its most vulnerable citizens. The Cash for Work (CfW) program provides vulnerable families access to productive opportunities while the Human Development Cash Transfer (HDCT) program supports primary school achievement and early childhood growth and development. ideas42 is partnering with the Government of Madagascar and the World Bank to evaluate these social protection programs and to test the effectiveness of behavioral nudges embedded in the design of the Human Development Cash Transfer program. A evaluation coordinator with a strong evaluation background is needed to coordinate evaluation activities, manage relationships with stakeholders on the ground, support evaluation-related program activities, coordinate the evaluation with the implementation of the safety net programs, liaise and train local staff of the partner organizations and build their capacity in designing and overseeing this and future evaluations, and monitor the quality of data collection.
