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Junior Economist

Confidential Company
📍 Sénégal 🇸🇳CDI🗓️ 22 days ago

Job Description

Sénégal
CDI

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Opportunity description:

Responsibilities

Other information

The primary role of the junior economist is to code (Stata and/or R), and ensure the quality of research design, implementation, and outcomes. Depending on the project, the junior economist may be responsible for the following activities: Evaluation design: Estimation of sample size required, coding for sampling an impact assessment (e.g. random assignment, matching), scheduling of SurveyCTO questionnaires for digital data collection. Evaluation implementation: Coding to verify the quality of data and analyse it, including evaluation data. Statistical analysis to formulate programmatic recommendations Visualize data as easy-to-understand charts, tables, maps and other visualizations. Quality control of the code written by other collaborators. Publication: Preparation of data for publication in the IDinsight data repository. Participation in writing reports and/or articles in academic journals. Build dashboards and/or data visualization tools to track key performance indicators. Teamwork- projects culturally and geographically diverse, can be spread all over the world

Education / Qualifications

Participation in the technical professional development of employees: individualized technical support to Associates / Senior Associates and periodic management of technical training. The junior economist will have to carry out these responsibilities with professionalism under strict deadlines. It will also propose, design and implement new initiatives to support project teams and increase the technical rigour of IDinsight’s work.

Candidate profile

Deeply passionate about social, economic and environmental policies and programs, as well as social impact;

Required skills

Undergraduate degree in economics, econometrics, statistics or political science, public policy. Excellent quantitative and critical thinking skills; A spirit of initiative and development in an environment that promotes responsibility and initiative; Intellectual curiosity and a sense of humor.

Experience

Relevant professional experience of more than 2 years in the field of empirical evaluations and research is desired Significant experience with Stata or R is required. Knowledge of other programming languages is an asset.

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