Behavioral Insights Advisor at International Rescue Committee

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:

Lead behavioral design of new solutions across different projects

• Gather relevant inputs, synthesize, and develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis
• Lead 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.
• Lead or support the design and implementation of behavioral science research including study designs, questionnaire development, and data analysis; lead 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 academic journals and practitioner-focused outlets.
• Identify, pursue and/or contribute to opportunities for fundraising and program development to advance IRC's behavioral science portfolio.

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

• Identify behaviorally-informed research questions and areas of interest within the IRC's organizational research and innovation priorities
• 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 organizational theories of change
• Support the development of proposals to integrate behavioral insights into projects across our portfolio of projects.

Behavioral science partnership management and development

• Further IRC's connections to behavioral science actors at a global, regional and national level - including academics, donors, other implementing organizations, behavioral science associations and foundations.
• Seek avenues for partnership, collaboration and coordination, such as supporting the launch of a behavioral insights' community of practice.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in a subject area associated with behavioral science (economics, psychology, anthropology, ethnography, neuroscience, social sciences, public policy etc) or relevant work experience is required
• Minimum 2 – 3 years’ experience with research or innovation projects working with multiple collaborators.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and analyzing behavioral science research (both qualitative and quantitative)
• Experience working with human-centered design, prototyping and user testing, user story development, participatory action research, and other product development techniques in a wide range of projects
• 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.