J-PAL is a network of 49 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. The J-PAL network’s headquarters is a research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and J-PAL’s regional offices are at the Paris School of Economics, the Pontifícia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, and the Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai, India.

J-PAL affiliates employ research staff through a variety of research centers, including Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Centre for Microfinance, Center for International Development's Micro-Development Initiative, Center of Evaluation for Global Action, Ideas 42, and the Small Enterprise Finance Center. Sometimes affiliates employ research staff through the universities where they are based.

Openings are posted below as they arise, and are taken down once filled.  Application instructions are provided under each opening.

March 10 2010 -- Update on the annual recruitment drive: The majority of openings advertised during the annual recruitment drive have still not been filled.  For most positions, interviews are somewhat underway, and for a few, they haven’t yet started.  All of the positions you see posted below are still open, and professors and hiring managers are continuing to draw from the pool of applicants who applied during the drive, by the January 31st deadline.  As new jobs are always opening up, you might even be contacted as late as May/June/July/August/September 2010. 

If you are having technical difficulties with your online application, please contact jobs@povertyactionlab.org.

For more information, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page.