Center for Global Development (CGD) Research Fellow – AI Initiative 2025 (Paid) – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Center for Global Development (CGD) Research Fellow – AI Initiative 2025. The Center is in search of a Research Fellow to assist construct a brand new AI Initiative. The Research Fellow will work on AI functions for worldwide improvement together with conducting analysis on AI interventions, evaluations, and enterprise fashions. The Research Fellow will work carefully with Han Sheng Chia, Markus Goldstein, and a Research Assistant. This is a 1-yr fastened-time period with chance of extending.

CGD’s AI Initiative seeks to establish “Smart Bets” in AI functions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), develop sensible analysis strategies to assist implementers and governments perceive if their investments are reaching meant targets, design enterprise fashions for the sustainable financing of AI associated Digital Public Goods. They goal to leverage CGD’s affect on donor establishments and different excessive-stage resolution-makers, positioning them each as a go-to useful resource for studying and a stage of accountability, guiding international leaders in the direction of proof-based mostly insurance policies and investments that enhance improvement outcomes for folks in LMICs.

Responsibilities

The Policy Fellow’s principal tasks will embrace:

• Conducting analysis and coverage evaluation in areas of experience, together with however not restricted to AI particular analysis strategies (analysis of AI interventions and AI for analysis), rising applied sciences, and improvement effectiveness.
• Ensuring that analysis and coverage evaluation are translated into concrete actions and affect by establishing collaborative relationships with policymakers, improvement businesses, donors, and worldwide monetary establishments.
• Engaging in associated coverage outreach actions, together with talking engagements, representing the group at a distinguished stage in conferences, conferences, displays, knowledgeable group consultations, working teams, technical communities, and different boards; and publishing blogs, papers, coverage briefs, and/or brief commentaries geared in the direction of policymakers, teachers, and CGD’s public viewers.
• Organizing and facilitating non-public conferences and public occasions in areas of experience.
• Mobilizing monetary assets and help for this system and its employees in shut coordination and cooperation with fundraising employees and CGD management.
• Supervising mid-stage and junior employees and being accountable for their efficiency administration and improvement.
• Overseeing planning, budgeting, execution, strategies, and employees to attain this system’s objectives.
• Engaging with and contributing to the establishment’s wider initiatives round variety, fairness and inclusion, in addition to a taking part in a key part in making a tradition which aligns with our mission and values.
• Integrating actions inside the program and throughout the group.
• Developing and supporting options to complicated issues requiring a excessive diploma of ingenuity, creativity, engagement, and innovation.

Salary

• Salary ranges from $129,400-$160,000. Pay commensurate with schooling, skillset, and expertise. 

Eligibility

The profitable candidate possesses the next {qualifications}:

• Graduate coaching in a related discipline – PhD or Master’s in economics, public coverage, knowledge science, pc science, statistics, or a carefully associated self-discipline, with substantive work on improvement points. The excellent candidate can have a mixture of economics/social science and computational/knowledge science coaching.
• Technical fluency – Expert programming in Python/R and SQL; palms-on expertise with machine-studying libraries and causal-inference toolkits; consolation working with messy, excessive-dimensional knowledge. Ability to be taught new applied sciences as wanted.
• Publication and affect report – Demonstrated skill to supply rigorous analysis (peer-reviewed articles, working papers, or flagship coverage experiences) that has influenced or aimed to affect improvement coverage debates.
• Exceptional communication expertise – Proven aptitude for distilling complicated analytics into concise, persuasive writing and displays for each technical and non-technical audiences.
• Field & stakeholder expertise – Prior collaboration with LMIC governments, multilaterals, or NGOs; familiarity with analysis ethics, knowledge-safety laws, and the practicalities of implementing evaluations in useful resource-constrained settings.
• Excellent oral and written communication expertise, in addition to excessive stage organizational expertise 
• Ability to work collaboratively inside the multidisciplinary group whereas remaining individually accountable for delivering on coverage outreach
• Ability to educate junior employees equivalent to analysis assistants.

Application

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