Behavioral Insights Associate

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Job Description

The IRC’s Airbel Impact Lab designs, tests, and scales life-changing, cost-effective solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster. By applying deep technical expertise and field experience with a range of skills from the behavioral sciences, human-centered design, research, and multi-disciplinary problem-solving in humanitarian contexts, we work to develop breakthrough solutions that combine creativity and precision, flexibility and expertise, and a desire to think afresh with the experience and reputation of a large-scale implementing organization.

Job Overview:

How do you identify malnourished children who live in the most remote, crisis-affected areas on Earth? How can we encourage uptake of mental health services in a scalable, culturally appropriate way? As refugee crises grow more protracted and urbanized, how can we avoid interruptions in the education of young people? That's where you come in! As a member of Airbel, you will be a key part of designing, testing and scaling breakthrough solutions for major challenges such as these.

The Behavioral Insights Associate will help to lead behaviorally informed products and services in IRC’s growing behavioral science portfolio addressing these pressing issues. They will have the opportunity to shape Airbel’s growing behavioral insights team, lead behavioral science research projects, and promote the application of behavioral insights across the IRC.

This role requires a mix of experience in behavioral design, research and experimentation, project management, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and a solid understanding of behavioral science evidence and humanitarian issues.

Major Responsibilities:

Support the behavioral design of new solutions across different projects

- Work with the BI Lead, BI Advisor, BI Coordinator and others in the Airbel Impact Lab to design relevant inputs, synthesize, and develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis - Support project teams to develop plans for behavioral prototyping, testing and iteratively improving behaviorally-informed solutions, using a wide range of conceptual, strategic, and technological trends. - Coordinate and manage the operationalization of behaviorally-informed interventions working closely with IRC colleagues. - Support the design and implementation of behavioral science research including study designs, questionnaire development, and data analysis; provide high-quality inputs into high-frequency, small-scale RCTs to inform programming and decision-making. - Openly share lessons and findings from the field with the broader humanitarian, behavioral science, and social innovation communities; present and publish behavioral science research findings in blogs, academic journals and practitioner-focused outlets. - Contribute to opportunities for fundraising and program development to advance IRC's behavioral science portfolio. - Lead on improving the knowledge management, administrative activities, ethics submissions and project management system across the BI practice. Coordinate these activities for specific projects they are working on. - Provides coordination supports for meetings for projects they are supporting with behavioral insights. - Under the guidance of practice lead, identify behaviorally-informed research questions and areas of interest within the IRC's organizational research and innovation priorities; Contribute to the behavioral insights practice strategy and support the BI Lead with the execution of that strategy.

Identify the potential to apply behavioral science insights across IRC projects and enable teams to use behavioral insights in program design

- Promote, teach, and explain behavioral science concepts and techniques to IRC staff - Contribute to the development of behavioral science evidence reviews; co-develop behavioral science evidence products and theories of change - Support the development of proposals to integrate behavioral insights into projects across our portfolio of projects and contribute to donor reporting across projects, as needed.

Behavioral science partnership management and development

- Seek avenues for partnership, thought-leadership, and collaboration, such as supporting the launch of a behavioral insights' community of practice or external reports, guidance and toolkits.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Behavioral Insights Lead

Position directly supervises: N/A

Indirect Reporting: N/A

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:

· Airbel Impact Lab Members, HQ and Global

· Technical Unit Directors and Team Members

· Country and Regional Directors and Country Program Staff

· Revenue Department

· Advocacy and Communications Units

External:

· Behavioral science firms, associations, and organizations

· Academic partners

· Key public sector design and innovation schools, institutions, and professional societies

· Private sector design companies

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Qualifications

Job Requirements:

Minimum Requirements

- Experience with research or innovation projects working with multiple collaborators. - Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and analyzing behavioral science research (both qualitative and quantitative) - Work experience with project management and knowledge management. - Work experience in humanitarian setting or development contexts - Ability to prioritize across a large portfolio of international projects - Strong synthesis skills and confidence distilling complex data into practical insights - Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with colleagues and collaborators at all levels in a distributed, multicultural professional environment to encourage the uptake of behaviorally-informed solutions

Preferred

- Proficiency in French, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili and/or any other relevant languages spoken by the communities we work with. - Project management or knowledge management experience - Experience organizing externally facing learning events and/or building and maintaining new external partnerships. - Experience/familiarity with NGO setting - Experience designing and running rapid randomized controlled trials or other quasi experimental studies - Understanding of educational interventions, climate resilience, and/or women’s health interventions, and experience working on such projects particularly in humanitarian settings.

Working Environment:

- Standard office work environment with the opportunity to work from home. - Potential to travel to IRC program locations up to 25% of the time.

The application deadline is Sunday 2nd April 2023.

IRC UK strives to be an equal opportunities employer. IRC UK is committed to equality of

opportunity and to non-discrimination for all job applicants and employees, and we seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious beliefs, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. IRC UK welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK.

IRC UK will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job functions if appointed to a role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

If you have any questions or need assistance with the online recruitment process, please contact the IRC UK HR team at applications@rescue-uk.org

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