Associate/Senior Associate

About IDinsight

We’re a global data and evidence advisory, working with governments, philanthropies, and non-profits to improve lives at scale, using technology and AI where they can deliver the most impact.

IDinsight is a global nonprofit that equips leaders with the data, evidence, and technology to improve lives at scale. We partner with governments, NGOs, multilaterals, and funders to support decisions at every stage of their impact journey - from bold pilots to nationwide scale-ups. Our teams bring rigorous evidence and practical insights so leaders can make informed decisions that truly change lives. With our partners, we are pioneering the next frontier of social impact, where data and technology accelerate progress for millions. We help leaders overcome the three main barriers to impact:

Figuring out what works

Learning and improving

Reaching and operating at scale

We work in multiple countries across Asia and Africa. Our work spans a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, education, health, governance, sanitation, financial inclusion, and other areas.

We have expertise in a variety of rigorous approaches and methodologies, which we tailor to each client depending on their needs and constraints. To achieve a positive social impact, we:

Support our partners with the full 'data and evidence' value chain - from primary data collection to data systems, monitoring, evaluation, and learning tools, and data science

Inform funding decisions - toward high-impact initiatives and away from less effective programs or approaches

Create cutting-edge AI-for-good products that make the delivery of social interventions and learning tools more cost-effective and scalable

Our diverse, growing team of roughly 250 outstanding colleagues operates in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Learn more about our mission and values at www.IDinsight.org.

About the Associate / Senior Associate role

Our Associates/Senior Associates are young professionals (1-6 years of experience) passionate about development challenges and causal impact. The Associate / Senior Associate role is an execution role on our research projects, under the supervision of a Manager, Project Director, and a technical team lead. Responsibilities are rich and varied, including preparing research plans, conducting advanced statistical and econometric analysis, coordinating fieldwork, and presenting our work to partners (governments, , technical and financial partners).

Examples of work led by our Associates

Joining a project team embedded within a partner government (e.g., Togo, Sierra Leone) to set up monitoring tools, analyze existing administrative data, conduct ad hoc studies on public programs and policies, or build stakeholder capacity by training client team members in quantitative research methods;

Leading the creation of data visualization tools for a flagship cash transfer program in Malawi;

Supporting the design (research protocol) and implementation of a randomized trial for a program aimed at school integration for out-of-school children in Liberia;

Helping an NGO consortium build a menstrual health app for young women and girls in Senegal, by running Theory of Change workshops and developing a literature review on menstrual health programs;

Supporting Morocco’s Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain (INDH) through primary data collected from 42,000 households and the integration of this data into a visualization and decision-support platform;

Supervising a survey of 10,000 households (overseeing field enumerators) in a rural area of Nigeria as part of an impact evaluation of a vaccination coverage program;

Contributing to communications outputs: producing articles and conference materials;

Internal contributions: contributing to a proposal response; to office life and organizational culture, for example by facilitating weekly office meetings, participating in culture committee events, or engaging with thema...