Daayitwa is a campaign for economic empowerment with the vision of an enterprising Nepal where every youth has opportunities for a prosperous future.  It operates three clusters at grassroots, government and global levels.  It supports rural growth-oriented entrepreneurs to accelerate their innovations and grow other entrepreneurs in their local communities.  Leveraging the grassroots learning, it collaborates with the government to conduct policy research and advocate for economic policy reform.  Finally, it transforms these interventions into a global campaign that nurtures enterprising mindset in Nepalis by bolstering leadership capacity in enterprise ecosystem stakeholders.

Position Title: Research Intern

Project: Community Engagement and Lottery Efficiency (CELE): Learnings from Nepal

Base: Kathmandu, with frequent field visits to earthquake-hit villages in the hilly and mountainous regions of Nepal. Applicants should be willing to stay and operate from the field as per the research demands.

Contract period: 17/01/2018 - 17/04/2018 . The period will be extended if required by the project and under mutual understanding.  

Weekly Hours: 42 hours (Full-time)

Numeration: Daayitwa's Standard Intern stipend. Expenses incurred in the field will be covered.

Priority deadline: 22nd December, 2017 (4:00 PM) 

The responsibilities include the following:

In collaboration with the research and senior project teams, the Research Intern will be required to assist the Research Officer to

1. identify and collect administrative data from beneficiary lists

2. Translate the details of any administrative data from Nepali to English.

3. Oversee field-based primary data collection efforts.

4. Manage day-to- day relationships with key local stakeholders, as requested.

5. Conduct data cleaning, manipulation, and analysis using multiple primary and secondary data sources.

6. Provide appropriate inputs for project management (budgets, reports, etc.) for Daayitwa and for program monitoring and reporting to the management hub at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard.

Requirement:

1. High- school cleared, Bachelor's degree (running or cleared) in Social Work, Humanities and Arts would be an advantage.                                                        

2. Ability to work effectively under pressure in a diverse, team-oriented environment

3. Willing to travel and work in the field

4. Strong motivation, self-starter and organizational/time management skills

5. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks at a time within deadlines

6. Willingness to learn and work hard

7. Excellent oral and written communications skills in English and Nepali

Context:
Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), based at Harvard’s Kennedy School and working in Nepal in partnership with Daayitwa, is dedicated to using rigorous evidence to address challenging questions at the intersection of economic development and public policy. Our cutting-edge research examines questions related to governance, financial inclusion, skills training, gender, and sustainable development, and it draws from a network of expert academics with expertise in Nepal and around the world.

EPoD and Daayitwa are currently seeking a number of Research Assistants to support a new field-based research project which aims to understand candidate selection and the characteristics of the newly elected local political leaders in the context of the recent local elections held in Nepal in May. This project seeks to lay the groundwork for a larger research agenda evaluating the impact of decentralization on service delivery, state capacity, and ultimately economic performance. Towards this research aim, Research Interns will be required to collect administrative data, reconstruction census data and election data.