The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.

Summary

This position will provide research and technical assistance to priority interventions, including analyses as part of research evaluations, and cost modeling for country teams. In addition, this position will support synthesis of cost evidence for development of recommendations, project design, programmatic guidance, and other technical and advocacy documents.

Major Responsibilities

• Conduct cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses for priority interventions.
• Contribute to scenario modeling analyses of the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of different programs across contexts and scales. Understand the decision-making needs of counterparts and develop modelling plans that best address these questions given data constraints.
• Work under supervision to execute research plans, including collation necessary monitoring and cost data.
• Work collaboratively with country-based staff and technical teams, proactively identifying and solving risks to analysis quality as they arise.
• Support the development of program-specific databases of cost data. Relate cost results with evidence on the effectiveness of programs generated by the Airbel research team and external literature.
• Provide input to evidence syntheses within a given focus area, support the development of evidence recommendations and shared organizational learning around the cost of programs.
• Provide research design and pre-award support to the development of proposals, working with finance and program teams to integrate cost data and review proposal budgets for alignment with workplans and targets.
• Contribute to project reporting, including writing reports, delivering presentations, supporting communications staff, and contributing to broader BUR/IRC reports.
• Support overall research design, operations, and strategy across a given focus area, completing other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, a related field, or equivalent professional experience;
• 2-3 years of similar work experience; 1 year in LMICs strongly preferred.