Our team is growing! We are looking for mission-driven people who want to make a difference in the humanitarian field globally.
We are currently hiring for the following positions. Application instructions are found at the bottom of each individual posting.
About the Position
HHI is seeking a graduate level research assistant (RA) with strong analytical and statistical skills. The RA will work with Prof. Phuong Pham, the Program Manager for Partner Programs, and the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at HHI, assisting with the Building a Better Response e-learning course on Humanitarian Education data analysis. The data and evidence generated by this project will serve to inform new strategic directions of this program, develop future research projects, and present informative and easy-to-understand data visualization maps to key funders and stakeholders. The RA will report to Prof. Pham, the Program Manager for Partner Programs, and the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at HHI.
The RA will be working to engage in data cleaning and data analysis of the user base of Building a Better Response e-learners (primarily humanitarian practitioners and academics) and will contribute to analyzing existing survey data and registration data. BBR has a userbase of approximately 80,000 e-learners and has been in operation since 2013. The RA will support in drafting future surveys, proposed research projects, and peer review papers and research reports that may emerge from this research. Ideal candidates should be proficient with data analysis (Stata, R, or SPSS). The graduate research assistant may be asked to provide additional assistance in preparing reports for sponsors, summarizing project results, and reviewing and editing manuscripts. This will be a part time position, beginning as soon as possible, and has a term end date of December 31st, 2022, with a possibility for extension. Candidates from any Harvard graduate school are invited to apply, with strong preference for candidates from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Graduate School of Education.
The Building a Better Response Research Assistant will:
Qualifications
Required documents to apply
Compensation: $21 -25 per hour (depending on experience)
Number of Hours per Week: 10 hours per week
Job Start Date: ASAP
Time Frame: End Date: December 31st, 2022; with a possibility of extension
Location of Internship
The primary work location for this position is the HHI office on 14 Story Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Until our return to campus, which is still to-be-determined, this interview process and position will be conducted virtually – including virtual interviews, remote onboarding, and remote work. The remote nature of this position is temporary. Local, on-campus work will be required once the School returns to an operational status that supports it. Although this position is remote for the time being, the student MUST reside in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, or Maryland to be eligible for Harvard payroll.
To Apply
Please send a CV and a statement of interest outlining your statistical analysis experience and preferred analysis software to Program Manager, Laura Tourtellotte (lctourtellotte@bwh.harvard.edu) & Karima Rehmani (krehmani@hsph.harvard.edu) with the subject line BBR RA & YOUR FULL NAME.
The goal of this internship/practicum is to provide one graduate student with the opportunity to gain skills at the intersection of public health and humanitarianism, social impact, and organizational strategy. The student will be exposed to challenges and context for leading mission-driven organizations and quantifying social return on investment. This is part of the Executive Director’s ongoing strategic management project to establish an inaugural system to describe, measure, and amplify HHI’s social impact.
HHI aims to investigate data-driven indicators to define HHI’s positive impact and track organizational success in terms of value, benefit, and meaning to the communities in humanitarian crisis. The student will support the development of HHI’s social impact strategy and HHI-wide monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan. Support will include applying qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods, collecting and analyzing data, measuring the efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of projects and reporting requirements. The student will examine the broader role of corporate philanthropy, impact investment, environment, social, and governance (ESG) equity investment, and corporate social responsibility and how they relate to the impact and social change that purpose-led organizations, like HHI, are creating in the world.
The student will report to the HHI Executive Director and HHI Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, and work closely with HHI’s core administrative team. The student is expected to engage with all HHI staff, faculty, and stakeholders to familiarize themselves with HHI’s international portfolio.
The student will contribute to and support the following activities:
The students are expected to:
Compensation:
$21 per hour
Number of Hours per Week:
10-20 hours per week
Job Start Date: Immediately
Time Frame: Summer 2022 and Fall 2022 with the possibility of extending to Spring 2023
Location of Job:
The primary work location for this position is the HHI office on 14 Story Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Until our return to campus, which is still to-be-determined but anticipated to begin in Spring 2022 (or later into the summer), this interview process and position will be conducted virtually – including virtual interviews, remote onboarding, and remote work. The remote nature of this internship is only temporary. Local, on-campus work will be required once the School and this internship return to an operational status that supports it. Although this position is remote for the time being, the student MUST reside in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, or Maryland to be eligible for Harvard payroll.
Required Application Documents:
How to apply:
About the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology
The Signal Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, founded in 2012, has worked to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of information technologies by communities of practice during humanitarian and human rights emergencies, through interdisciplinary teams that collaborate with faculty members, international organizations, academic and non-academic research institutes, and professional agencies. Its core goals have been to train and equip humanitarian practitioners with the technical methods, ethical doctrine, research, and relevant evidence-based practices needed to responsibly use Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) as part of their operations. In this next phase of the Signal Program, it is the team’s objective to strengthen the efficacy and efficiency of early warning/early action work through a strategic, evidence-based, and ethical integration of spatial methods, field methods, and novel analytic tools into existing early warning/early action decision-support mechanisms and workflows.
The team is looking for an individual to work towards this objective and to assist with the following responsibilities:
Qualifications
Compensation
Unpaid. This internship is eligible for course credit or practicum credit. Additionally, middle authorship may be granted for support in qualitative research and seminar proceedings
Number of Hours per Week: 10-15 hours per week
Time Frame
Start date: As soon as possible
End date: August 31, 2022 (with possibility of extension)
Location of Internship
This is a remote position, but candidate must reside in the United States.
Required documents to apply
To Apply
To apply please submit your CV and cover letter to sakhan@hsph.harvard.edu by April 30th with the subject line Internship Application: YOUR NAME.
