Senior Policy Associate

J-PAL South Asia seeks a Senior Policy Associate (Scale-ups) to contribute to our mission of promoting evidence-informed policy. The Senior Policy Associate will work on supporting the design, implementation, and scale-up of key education programmes in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka, including initiatives such as Gender Equity Curriculum, Every Child Counts, ConnectED, and Maru Sinchana. The Senior Policy Associate will report to the Policy Manager and collaborate closely with government partners, civil society organisations, internal staff, and J-PAL's network of researchers to drive large-scale policy implementation. The role will include stakeholder management with senior and junior government officials and partner organisations; programme management, including tracking progress and supporting dissemination of monitoring insights; and providing technical assistance through report writing, public facing knowledge products, and development of policy memos. The Senior Policy Associate will also support organisational learning by promoting the use of locally contextual evidence and identifying opportunities for future research and scale-up. Additionally, they will play a key role in meeting preparation for government engagements, including creating presentations, drafting notes, and coordinating across stakeholders.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) J-PAL was established in 2003 as a research centre at the Economics Department at MIT. Since then, it has grown into a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. J-PAL is propelled by a first-rate team dedicated to research, policy, training, and other vital work, supporting J-PAL's mission to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence.