What you’ll do

• Lead a team of behavioral researchers (quantitative and qualitative) to design and execute behavioral science projects across the Global South. This includes research design, field work, and data analysis techniques, and optimization.  In short – do awesome behavioral science.
• Work with your team to develop and deliver internal  training, workshops, and resources to enhance the skills and capabilities of Busarians.  In other words – help others do awesome work.
• Identify and pursue specific areas where Busara, and your team, can advance the field of behavioral science: not in fine-turning the research on a specific cognitive mechanism, but in making our field more effective and thoughtful about ethical behavior change.
• Developing a research and partnership agenda that drives those innovative areas forward. Busara has a unique opportunity (in the breadth of projects across the world) and incentives (as a non-profit, social mission organization) to reimagine our field, but it’s nevertheless a challenging and complex process to do so.
• Build relationships throughout the field, to both raise funds for this agenda, and to partner with like-minded organizations.
• Think, write, and speak about new methods and approaches that Busara can benefit from.  These could be existing methods in the field, or new ones that you develop at Busara.
• Create and improve standards and methods for research design, methodologies, and quality assurance throughout Busara. This includes Listen to and learn from the technical needs of fellow Busarians, to ensure that what your team offers serves these needs.
• Partner with other Directors and VPs to help them conceptualize, source and pursue opportunities for projects.

To do this well, you should have:

• Deep expertise in behavioral science: from experimental design, to qualitative field work, to design methodologies.
• A strong understanding of how these methods work in the field: with partial data, hard to reach populations, sensitive research topics, biased enumerators, etc.
• Enjoyment and expertise in applied behavioral science, including cognitive and experimental psychology and behavioral and experimental economics.
• Experience with the realities of behavioral field work: how to take academic knowledge into a practical process for designing interventions, when the environment can’t be controlled or fully understood.
• Extensive hand-on experience with qualitative research and design: with a detailed knowledge of the strength and limitations of various techniques, if not day to day execution experience.
• Management experience, especially of diverse teams and multiple geographies
• The knowledge and temperament to be an internal consultant: listening and responding to the technical needs of your colleagues and clients
• The desire to work and live in the Global South (if you’re from here, or have experience here that’s best)
• Excellent management and organizational skills; you and your team will need to effectively juggle a wide range of requests for help across the organization
• Fluent written and spoken English. Other languages are great too, but English is required.
• Ideally, sectoral expertise in a substantive area such as: health, financial services, gender, social inclusion, governance, agriculture.