Project: The International Rescue Committee’s child protection programs ensure that children are safe, can exercise their rights, and are cared for, ideally in a family or family-like environment that promotes their physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and economic well-being. To achieve this, we collaborate with a range of partners, including children themselves, families, communities, social workers, civil society, non-governmental organizations, and Government structures. Everything we do is underpinned by thorough research and evaluation, with the IRC participating in global discussions on effective child protection practices.
Role: The Child Protection and Research Measurement Fellow position is embedded in the Child Protection team within IRC’s Violence Prevention and Response Unit and will contribute to a range of measurement and research activities including contributing to developing measurement frameworks for child protection interventions across IRC country program in line with intervention theory and design; contribute to the development of monitoring tools including questionnaires and interview guides to systematize the measurement approach across the sector.
Potential deliverables:
- Monitoring and data collection tools developed for child protection interventions
- A database of validated protection outcome indicators
Potential travel involved: No travel will be involved for this position.
Desired Skills:
- Strong analytical, presentation, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with concepts of validity and reliability of research instruments
- Strong research skills – quantitative and secondary – and ability to summarize, synthesize, and simplify key messaging
- Excellent organizational skills
- Able to manage processes that involve input from multiple staff stakeholders
- Fluency in English is required; working knowledge of French, Spanish, or Arabic is preferred
Requirements: Students must be a matriculated graduate or Ph.D. student at The New School. Fellows are hired as Research Associates by The New School.
Work Environment: This fellowship will work with the Airbel Impact Lab based in the IRC’s HQ in New York City. While this fellowship is remote, all Fellows must be physically located in the US.
Fellowship Length: This fellowship carries a maximum of 35 hours/week during the summer semester (May 20 – August 25, 2024), and a maximum of 20 hours/week during the Fall 2024 semester (August 26 – December 22, 2024). Continuation into Spring 2025 is potentially available. The ideal candidate will be able to commit to both the Summer and Fall semesters.
How to apply: The deadline to apply is March 30, 2024. Please submit one PDF document containing a cover letter, CV/resume, and two work samples (writing and/or design portfolio – 5 pages maximum per sample) to Catherine McGahan, McGahanC@newschool.edu, and Nicole Tuszynski, tuszynsn@newschool.edu.
Interviews will be conducted in early April via Zoom.
Team: Airbel Impact Lab, Research and Innovation at the IRC. With over 70 million people displaced, the world is facing an unprecedented crisis. To address the evolving and growing nature of this crisis requires not just more aid, but new thinking. There is a lack of proven, cost-effective, scalable services for people affected by crisis. In some cases, there is a lack of evidence on what works. In others, evidence shows existing solutions are effective, but we need to find new ways of delivering them at scale in fragile states. That’s why the IRC created the Airbel Impact Lab. Our goal is to find and advance breakthrough solutions — with people and ethics at the center of all we do.