Principal Investigator / DOL - CLEAR

Integrated Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over 100 countries and implemented over 300 projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies, and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) and institutional support across many areas and sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, agriculture, economic growth, food security, education, environment, and global health.

Position Title: Principal Investigator

Department: Institutional Support Program Implementation (ISPI)

Location: Washington DC, Vianna Virginia

Report To: Home Office Project Manager

Type: Part-time/25%

Classification: Exempt

Overview: IBTCI seeks Principal Investigator for an anticipated multi-year Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) Project funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

The position is contingent upon contract award.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

The principal investigator who shall be responsible for bringing the highest levels of technical expertise and creativity to bear across CLEAR’s projects.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide expert technical leadership in designing and conducting complex social science research and evaluation studies, including experimental, quasi-experimental, comparison group, fixed-effects, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, descriptive, correlational, and meta-analysis approaches.
• Oversee the implementation of rigorous research methodologies, ensuring the validity, reliability, accuracy, and scientific integrity of research activities, preferably related to Department of Labor programs and priorities.
• Serve as the principal technical authority across research projects, providing expert guidance, strategic direction, and oversight to research teams to ensure methodological soundness and achievement of project objectives.
• Lead and oversee systematic evidence reviews, research synthesis, and evidence-based clearinghouse activities, ensuring the quality, relevance, and accuracy of synthesized research findings.
• Translate and communicate complex research findings through technical reports, publications, presentations, and plain-language summaries to inform researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Provide readily available technical expertise, innovative research approaches, and creative problem-solving across CLEAR projects, ensuring responsiveness to evolving research needs, methodological challenges, and project requirements.

Minimum Education/Experience:

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience performing complex social science research or evaluation studies that involve rigorous designs, including experimental studies, comparison group studies, fixed effect studies, difference-and difference studies, instrumental variables, noncausal studies (implementation, correlational or descriptive studies that do not make causal claims), and meta-analyses, preferably related to labor programs and activities of interest to the Department of Labor.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience serving as a principal investigator or in an equivalent position, providing the highest levels of expert technical direction across the various complexities of research projects;
• Experience related to evidence-based research clearinghouses or conducting and synthesizing information from systematic evidence reviews.
• Experience communicating research findings in both technical and plain-language to inform both research and evidence-based practice.
• A PhD or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience (i.e., minimum fourteen (14) years experience plus Master’s or other relevant advanced degree), as described above.

Work environment: The position is based in the Home Office.

Physical Requirements: This is largely a sedentary position that requires the ability to speak, hear, see, and lift small objects up to 20 lbs.

Supervisory Responsibility: This position has supervisory responsibilities.

Travel: Domestic and international travel may be required, including travel to field offices and Department of State-supported program locations.

Pay Transparency Statement: We are dedicated to ensuring a thoughtful, compliant, and equitable approach to employment compensation. Our commitment includes conducting a comprehensive salary analysis that considers individual skill sets, qualifications, business needs, internal compensation data, and industry and labor market surveys. The anticipated pay range for this position is $134,000 - $180,000 USD annually

Benefits (Applicable to Employees only, eligibility may vary for part-time employees):

• Annual Leave
• Sick Leave
• Holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

IBTCI is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. This means that IBTCI is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex (gender and gender identity), sexual orientation, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable anti-discrimination laws. We prohibit discrimination and harassment in all employment practices and decisions, and we comply with all applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws.

If you are an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability, or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@ibtci.com.

Salary : $134,000 - $180,000