Yale University

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Yale University invites applications for its first Y-RISE Executive Director’s position starting on July 1st, 2018. The Yale Initiative Research on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) is a new research initiative that will support research and scale solutions to shepherd promising antipoverty programs. The main goal of Y-RISE is to develop the science behind scaling up effective interventions, define that emerging research agenda, and scale-up a few promising interventions in the process. To do so, Y-RISE will build research networks, host academic network meetings and conferences, connect researchers to implementing partners, and make seed grants to develop new research. Y-RISE research will have direct policy implications, advancing efforts to bring the most good to the most people, so we publicize and advocate the policy lessons from our research.

The Y-RISE Director will report to the Faculty Director (Mushfiq Mobarak) but will operate with significant autonomy. The Director will be in charge of producing policy briefs and research outputs, managing relationships with donors, maintaining the Y-RISE network of scholars and recruiting and allocating research support staff. For more details and instructions on how to apply, please visit: http://faculty.som.yale.edu/MushfiqMobarak/yrise_director.pdf