Summary

The RED Team is the nerve center behind IDinsight’s mission to conduct high-quality, technically accurate, rigorous, ethical, and transparent work. RED Team members are the sectoral specialists and methodological experts on client engagements. And it takes the lead on some of the most technically complex client engagements, such as the data science, data engineering and monitoring systems work. It is responsible for setting the technical standards and producing and maintaining the technical resources of the organization, while ensuring the technical professional development of all IDinsight staff.

Responsibilities

To support RED Team leadership, the Operations Sr. Associate’s / Manager’s responsibilities will include:

• Drive forward the RED Team Strategy
• Help determine skills strengths and gaps on the RED Team as a whole
• Drive recruitment processes for key hires on a rapidly growing team
• Staff RED Team members on projects
  • Assign RED team members to projects based on specialization and capacity
  • Track members’ allocation and utilization
• Facilitate knowledge/information management across RED Team and organization
• Assist DSEM team with client development of high impact potential projects including coordination with regional teams across IDinsight
• Help budget leads track team finances
• Support the agenda-setting for weekly team meetings and annual retreats
• Serve as the Ethics Review Committee Coordinator
• Track project teams’ IRB and ethics review status
• Track project publication status
• Maintain the IDinsight public data repository, and supporting teams on publishing data to the repository
• Assist the RED Team Director and DSEM Director with executing other important and time sensitive work streams as they arise.
• This role will report directly to the RED Team Director and will interact regularly with the DSEM Directors and RED Team Operations. While being housed in the RED team, this position will also regularly interact with the IDinsight Global Operations team as well with the Chiefs of Staff of other IDinsight teams.

Qualifications

An ideal RED Team Operations Sr. Associate / Manager must:

• Effectively manage complex strategic projects and operations from start to finish
• Be proactive and organized
• Have attention for detail, while being able to zoom out and understand the big picture
• Be excited to create and deploy high-impact internal systems
• Be able to navigate and build Excel documents / GoogleSheets like a pro
• Have a knack for figuring out how new software systems work
• Be able to write clearly and concisely
• Have a sense of humor

A bonus would be if this teammate can already (or be able to learn how to) do the following:

• Use Airtable to develop relational models, queries, views and dashboards
• Be familiar with  Stata, R, and Python or tools like GitHub

Professional Development

• Skill and career development are core to IDinsight’s values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted highlights of teammates’ experiences. IDinsighters receive significant mentorship from IDinsight leadership, support from talented peers, and are given considerable autonomy when ready. They maintain professional development plans and are given “stretch” opportunities designed to strengthen a variety of skills. Real-time feedback is embedded in our culture and formal structure enables maximum professional growth.