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SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATEAbdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)to support J-PALs mission to efficiently translate research by J-PAL affiliates into actionable poverty alleviation policies around the world. They will work under the supervision of Associate Director of HR and serve as the HR lead forAbdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) for coordinating HR activities such as employee relations rewards and recognition onboarding diversity and inclusion recruitment performance management and compensation at J-PAL. J-PALis a global research center working to reduce poverty and fight climate change by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 500 top researchers at universities around the world J-PAL conducts innovative research and builds powerful partnerships to solve the worlds greatest challenges. J-PAL was launched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and its faculty directors are Nobel laureates and MIT professorsAbhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and Ben Olken. It has over 400 research policy training and operations staff across Africa Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East North America South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Job Requirements
REQUIRED: Bachelors degree;and a minimum of four years of HR experience in a professional work environment.
This position is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA.
Please note that a cover letter is required and must be submitted via the MIT Portal.
3/4/2026
Required Experience:
Senior IC
The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.