Consulting and StrategyFull-TimeJunior-level(1-2 yrs)
Job Description
IDinsight is an international development organization that helps policymakers and managers make socially impactful decisions using rigorous evidence. We carefully tailor a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools to enable our clients to design better policies, rigorously test those ideas, and take informed action at scale to improve lives.
The Junior Economist’s primary role will be coding in Stata and/or R, and ensuring the quality of research design, implementation and outputs. Depending on the projects, the Junior Economist may be responsible for any of the following activities:
Responsibilities
Evaluation design: Estimating required sample size for any monitoring and evaluation activity, coding for impact evaluation design (e.g. random assignment, matching), programming SurveyCTO questionnaires for digital data collection.
Evaluation implementation: Coding to ensure high data quality, data management including data processing.
Analysis: Conducting statistical analysis on datasets to produce results that inform recommendations and decisions.
Data visualization: Presenting results for clients in easy to understand graphs, charts, tables, maps and other visualizations.
Quality control: Reviewing code to ensure quality code written by others on the project team.
Publication: Preparing data for publication in IDinsight’s data repository. Also preparing manuscripts for the publication of reports and/or articles in academic journals.
Monitoring: Building dashboards and/or data visualization tools to track key performance indicators.
Teamwork: Working with culturally and geographically diverse project teams that can be spread across the globe.
Staff Support: Supporting the technical professional development of staff. Providing individualized technical support for IDinsight Associates, and periodically leading scheduled and ad-hoc training of technical topics.
Qualifications
Deeply passionate about social, economic, and environmental policies and programs, and social impact.
Undergraduate degree in economics, econometrics, statistics, or political science, public policy.
Outstanding quantitative and critical thinking skills.
Self-starter who will thrive in a start-up setting by taking ownership and initiative.
Intellectual curiosity and sense of humor.
2+ years of relevant work experience preferred, including working on empirical evaluations and research.
Significant experience with Stata or R required. Experience with additional programming languages is a plus.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the IDinsight career portal on BambooHR. Click the link below to access the application page:
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