Internship Summary:
Organization: Precision Development
Global job opportunities
Country: Remote
City: Home-based
Office: Precision Development in Home-based
Start date: Flexible for summer 2025 (or sooner)
Application deadline: February 28, 2025, 6 pm EST (applications may be reviewed as they are submitted)
PxD is looking for a self-motivated and independent person to join our team as an Intern – Knowledge Management. The successful candidate will contribute to PxD’s core work, providing timely, deeply customized, and localized agricultural advisory to millions of smallholder farmers. The Intern will help us improve our knowledge management resources with a focus on the PxD Experiment Registry, an online custom-built tool for documenting PxD’s experimental research projects, including a/b tests and impact evaluations, in order to generate program insights.
This is an exciting opportunity for driven and detail-oriented people to have a significant influence on PxD’s organizational impact, as part of a high performing and non-hierarchical team. The successful candidate will have the opportunities to work at the intersection of policy, implementation, and research.
Responsibilities could include (but are not limited to):
- Perform in-depth quality control of experimental research documentation on PxD’s Experiment Registry to prepare to make it public.
- Rigorously test and offer suggestions for improvement of internal AI tools to generate accurate and useful research insights.
- Synthesize insights from PxD experiments and research results to generate text that can be included in concept notes, project proposals, webpages, and strategy documents.
- Write reports and blogs.
- The ideal candidate for this internship placement has many or all of the following:
- Bachelors or Graduate (ongoing) degree in public policy, development studies, or related fields (e.g. economics, MPA, MPP etc.).
- Solid understanding of causal research methods
- Strong organization skills and exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent writing skills, particularly for social science research
- Interest in AI tools
To apply, please visit the PxD website and use the online application form to submit a CV, cover letter, and brief responses to the screening questions. The job position may be reviewed on a rolling basis until the application deadline of February 28, 2025, at 6 pm EST.
PxD is committed to building an inclusive and diverse organisation. We don’t make decisions based on gender, gender identity, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristics that are unrelated to the role. We understand that everyone has different lifestyles and we accommodate flexible working to make sure you are as productive and happy as you can be.
We will use any personal data you provide for recruitment purposes only.
About PxD: PxD is a global non-profit that harnesses the power of technology, data science, and behavioral economics to provide targeted information to farmers in low and middle-income countries. Providing the right information to the right people in the right way and at the right time increases incomes, protects the environment, and improves well-being. We are evidence-based: we test our interventions with randomized controlled trials to prove our impact and cost-effectiveness, to simultaneously learn from and improve our service, and to demonstrate our value to funders and partners. There are few programmes in international development that are as demonstrably cost-effective as ours.
PxD’s activities in India are implemented in partnership with Behaviour Change Advisory Services (BCAS) LLP
