Post-doctoral Fellow, GIRL Center

TITLE: Post-doctoral Fellow, GIRL Center

REPORTING TO: Director, GIRL Center

LOCATION: New York, NY, London, UK, or Nairobi, Kenya

JOBS SUPERVISED: None

ASSIGNMENT LENGTH: 1 year, renewable for one additional year by mutual consent and funding availability

POSITION SUMMARY: The Population Council's GIRL Center is seeking a Post-doctoral Fellow focused on adolescent research. The Council is embarking on the development of a bold new social science research institute that will be poised to tackle some of the world's most pressing existential questions with demographic underpinnings. The Council's global and interdisciplinary researchers will collaborate across the fields of demography, epidemiology, biomedicine, economics, public health, and sociology.

Colleagues across the Council conduct rigorous science, generate high quality evidence and innovative data products, and communicate evidence strategically to influence social, economic and health policies and investments at national, regional and global levels.

The Population Council's Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center is a cross-cutting research hub that brings together today's leading scholars in adolescence to generate, synthesize, and translate evidence effectively for decision-making. The Center envisions a gender-equitable world where girls and boys make a healthy and safe transition into adulthood and reach their full potential. We contribute to this vision by:
1) generating evidence on adolescence,
2) convening key stakeholders and communicating evidence to drive evidence-based policy and practice and
3) growing current and future talent and networks of adolescent researchers and scholars. The Center has made critical contributions to the field, from leading innovative and critical research on child marriage to studying causal pathways between education and health to exploring the experiences of child domestic workers in multiple countries. We have also launched a series of tools including the Evidence for Gender and Education Resource , the Adolescent Data Hub , and the Adolescent Atlas for Action .

The Center has also convened - in person and online - researchers, donors, advocacy groups and policy makers to examine the evidence and think critically about what girls need as well as what works and what doesn't to improve their lives.

The Post-doctoral Fellow will conduct innovative, rigorous, and relevant research on one or more of the GIRL Center's current thematic focus areas: adolescent economic empowerment (including care work), adolescents in the digital world, adolescent mental health, or adolescents in humanitarian settings. The Fellow will work under the leadership of the Director of the GIRL Center and the supervision of a GIRL Center researcher, in collaboration with other Population Council researchers.

The fellow will be closely mentored by senior GIRL Center staff to ensure they build pertinent research skills and contribute effectively to the Center's research agenda. The Fellow will also be involved in disseminating research findings and project development.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Contribute to the Center's innovative and policy/program-relevant research agenda:

1. Work with the Center's leadership to define, conduct, and manage cross-country research on a particular priority adolescent-focused research topic

2. Assess the current research gaps and conduct research to address these issues through various techniques (e.g., systematic reviews/meta-analysis and secondary analyses of existing data sets, including from experimental studies).

3. Collaborate with internal and external researchers to develop and execute research that aligns with Council priorities.

Contribute to the development of the Center and the Council's growing research program:

4. Develop and manage technical partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

5. Produce academic and non-academic publications that effectively communicate the Center's research to internal and external audiences.

6. Represent the Center and the Council at external meetings.

7. Perform related duties as assigned by the Center's leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS:

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