Friday 13 November 2015

Budget Transparency (Internship)

Project Summary: In partnership with the Ugandan Ministry of Finance and the Overseas Development Institute, IPA assesses the impact of providing highly disaggregate, location specific information on budget allocation and expenditures on the quality of service provision. Target groups include local councilors and local opinion leaders.

Position Summary: The intern will work closely with the PI and a team of Field Managers on overseeing baseline data collection and managing incoming data. Tasks include:
  • Receiving and submitting electronic survey data on a daily basis
  • Ensuring quality of the data through high frequency checks and consolidating data with auditor results
  • Involvement in survey design, programming and oversight of field teams
Strong candidates have strong STATA skills, and ideally experience working and/or living in rural areas in developing countries as well as good management skills.
Application Instructions
Please follow the application instructions below. Any applications or CVs submitted outside this process will not be considered. Note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Send a CV and a cover letter to jobs-interns@poverty-action.org and cc hdiamondpollock@poverty-action.org
In the email body: Put your full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name.
Attachments: Please attach your resume and cover letter.
In the subject line: Copy exactly the following position line: Uganda, Intern-Budget Transparency


About IPA


Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to conduct over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.

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